What’s Streaming On MUBI This August: Prepare To Drink Some Hot Milk
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Some great movies are coming to MUBI this August. Two recent MUBI releases make their streaming debut on the platform. Athina Rachel Tsangari’s profound meditation on tradition, resilience, and the decaying grasp of capitalism with Harvest, starring Caleb Landry-Jones and Harry Melling. And Hot Milk, Rebecca Lenkiecwiz’s adaptation of Deborah Levy’s novel starring Fiona Shaw and Emma Mackey. Hot Milk, with its sun-bleached, shimmering vistas, could certainly be part of MUBI’s The Summer Blues collection.
Instead, this is led by Luca Guadagnino’s Sicily-set A Bigger Splash, alongside seasonal gems from Angela Schanelec, Simon Bird, and Ira Sachs. Other highlights include Eddie Huang’s sharp-edged documentary Vice is Broke. Radu Jude’s surreal capitalist collage, Eight Postcards from Utopia. Shūji Terayama’s audacious Fruits of Passion, and William Klein’s vibrant short Broadway by Light. And finally, a huge treat for fans of Billy Wilder, his debut film made with Alexander Esway’s – 1934’s Bad Seed – This work is filled with a bold energy and creativity that hints at his future brilliance.
MUBI RELEASE: HARVEST
Set in the dwindling days of a medieval Scottish village. Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Harvest (2024) follows Walter Thirsk (Caleb Landry Jones). A solitary manservant who watches the farming community around him teeter onto the brink of collapse after a barn is mysteriously burned. As the village lays blame on three outsiders, the meek but well-intentioned landowner Master Kent (Harry Melling) struggles to maintain control over it. Only made worse by the arrival of his wealthy cousin, Master Jordan (Frank Dillane). He seeks to modernise and profit off the land.
Harvest brings grit and physical texture to Jim Crace’s fable-like novel. Grounding the story’s strangeness in a divine pastoral setting that explores the slow unravelling of a community caught between ancient customs and ruthless modernisation. And it is in this interplay between the beauty of the landscape and the undercurrents of social upheaval that Tsangari evokes a profound meditation on tradition. Resilience and the decaying grasp of capitalism.
Our reviewer, Phil Roberts, had this to say about the film:
Athina Rachel Tsangari’s #Harvest is a compelling period drama. Packed with gritty performances, picturesque cinematography, stunning scenery and witty humour, the film is a fascinating exploration of a small village wrestling with the arrival of change in its many forms.
Harvest (Tsangari, 2024) – August 8
MUBI RELEASE: HOT MILK
Adapted from Deborah Levy’s novel of the same name. Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s directorial debut, Hot Milk (2025), sees young anthropology student Sofia (Emma Mackey) accompanying her wheelchair-using mother Rose (Fiona Shaw) to Almería, Spain. Rose seeks healing from a specialised therapist for mysterious physical ailments. While in Almería, Sofia strikes up a volatile romance with the elusive Ingrid (Vicky Krieps). A romance that has her questioning the dynamics of her relationships with her own family. And also the alluring new figure in her life.
Lenkiewicz probes intimate character moments to unearth the submerged tensions that define her characters’ inner lives as they drift in the sun. Beneath its bleached, shimmering surfaces lies a disquieting study of emotional dependency. Suppressed rage, and the slippery boundaries between care and control.
Hot Milk (Lenkiewicz, 2025) – August 22
VICE IS BROKE
A blistering, first-person takedown of media mythologies and millennial burnout. Vice Is Broke (2024) marks Eddie Huang’s return to the screen with his most provocative work to date. Blending memoir with gonzo journalism, Huang turns his incisive eye on Vice Media. Tracing its rise and ruin through wild archive clips, The text involves confrontational interviews and humorous digressions.
Premiering at TIFF and Doc NYC. Vice Is Broke crafts an irreverent and fast-paced eulogy for the company that once defined alternative cool. It echoes the spirit of Anthony Bourdain and millennial culture, documenting not only a downfall but also implicating the culture that enabled it.
Vice Is Broke (Huang, 2024) – August 8
LATEST & GREATEST: EIGHT POSTCARDS FROM UTOPIA
Assembled entirely from broadcast commercials in post-socialist Romania. Eight Postcards from Utopia (2024) reimagines late-20th-century capitalism as a surreal montage of branding, longing, and absurdity. Co-directed by celebrated Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude and philosopher Christian Ferencz-Flatz. The film reframes kitsch media detritus into eight themed vignettes, each dissecting a facet of society in transition. From gender roles and consumption to digital hysteria and national memory.
A conceptual companion to Jude’s Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World. Eight Postcards premiered at the Locarno and São Paulo film festivals and continues his critical exploration of mediated life under capitalism. A chaotic time capsule that feels eerily contemporary.
Eight Postcards from Utopia (Jude & Ferencz-Flatz, 2024) – August 29
THE SUMMER BLUES
Long days, faded photographs, and the quiet ache of memory. Our new collection, The Summer Blues, brings together films that trace the season’s emotional undercurrents. A space where memory sharpens, desire lingers, and change often arrives unannounced. Together, these films offer a portrait of summer not as an escape. But as a space for introspection, reminding us that in the sunshine, the shadow is never far behind.
Passing Summer (Schanelec, 2001) – August 1
A Bigger Splash (Guadagnino, 2015) – August 1
Days of the Bagnold Summer (Bird, 2019) – August 1
Frankie (Sachs, 2019) – August 1
LATEST & GREATEST: BEATING HEARTS
Gilles Lellouche’s Beating Hearts (2024) follows the turbulent relationship between Jackie, a girl from an upper-middle-class family. And Clotaire, a boy from a modest background who falls into a life of crime. As their bond deepens, Clotaire’s descent into violence and eventual twelve-year prison sentence drives the couple apart. While Jackie struggles to move on with her life.
While the tropes may seem familiar and Shakespearean, Lellouche’s focus on intense kinetic action in contrast to tender moments of romantic stillness shows how a fresh perspective can bring new life to a story we thought had been played out. In doing so, Lellouche shows great empathy for the passion and pain of young love caught in difficult circumstances.
Beating Hearts (Lellouche, 2024) – August 15
FRUITS OF PASSION
Shūji Terayama’s Fruits of Passion (1981) unfolds in 1920s Shanghai, where decadent lust and power games collide. The film centres on O (Isabelle Illiers), a young woman caught in a complex, often cruel relationship with the wealthy Sir Stephen (Klaus Kinski). He who pushes her into a dark world of desire and control.
As O navigates the brothel’s oppressive environment, a poor boy falls for her and joins a revolution to be in her company. Fruits of Passion shines a light on the harsh realities faced by women exploited by patriarchy. Exploring the tension between submission and autonomy. Much as the film blurs the lines between political allegory and erotic fantasy.
Fruits of Passion (Terayama, 1981) – August 11
BROADWAY BY LIGHT
William Klein’s vibrant Broadway by Light (1958) is an experimental short capturing the neon spectacle of 1950s Times Square. With striking visuals of flashing signs and silhouetted workers, Klein creates a dazzling portrait of New York’s Great White Way.
Less about narrative and more a hypnotic meditation on light, movement, and urban life, it showcases Klein’s shift from photography to filmmaking and celebrates the energy of the city’s iconic commercial heart in just a few minutes.
Broadway by Light (Klein, 1958) – August 14
BAD SEED
Billy Wilder and Alexander Esway’s Bad Seed (1934) is a debut film made during Wilder’s brief time in Paris, blending crime caper and romantic fable to tell the tale of a spoiled youth, Henry, drawn into an organised car-theft ring. As Henry falls for the sister of a fellow thief, his loyalties shift and tensions rise within the gang.
Though rough around the edges, the film crackles with a brash energy and invention, its scrappy charm lending it a spontaneity that foreshadows Wilder’s later brilliance.
Bad Seed (Wilder & Esway, 1934) – August 23
MUBI UK & IRELAND AUGUST 2025
01/08/2025 | Eight Postcards From Utopia | Radu Jude, Christian Ferencz-Flatz | Latest & Greatest
01/08/2025 | Passing Summer | Angela Schanelec | The Summer Blues
01/08/2025 | Frankie | Ira Sachs | The Summer Blues
01/08/2025 | A Bigger Splash | Luca Guadagnino | The Summer Blues
01/08/2025 | Days of the Bagnold Summer | Simon Bird | The Summer Blues
08/08/2025 | Harvest | Athina Rachel Tsangari | MUBI Release
11/08/2025 | Fruits Of Passion | Shûji Terayama
14/08/2025 | Broadway by Light | William Klein
15/08/2025 | Beating Hearts | Gilles Lellouche | Latest & Greatest
22/08/2025 | Hot Milk | Rebecca Lenkiewicz | MUBI Release
23/08/2025 | Bad Seed | Billy Wilder, Alexander Esway
29/08/2025 | Vice is Broke | Eddie Huang
All this and more is available to stream on MUBI. To watch the great entertainment available, click here.
Introducing Carl! As the News Editor at Future of the Force, Carl has been an invaluable member of our team since early 2016. His expertise and dedication have made him an integral part of our editorial staff. Beyond his professional role, Carl is a fervent supporter of Liverpool F.C. and an avid follower of pop culture. He has a deep passion for Halloween, Friday the 13th, and the iconic movie franchises Star Wars and Star Trek.
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