Cannes film festival opening filmDreadful songs add no flavour to dreary tale of a big-city gourmet returning to her home-cooked rootsThe opening gala of Cannes can be such a gamble: a very exposed festival slot which few films need or want, and whose …
Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt upends audience expectations in a feature debut thatโs hyper-aware of the origin storyโs sexual and patriarchal imageryNorwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt makes her feature debut with an ingenious revisionist body-…
A mysterious stranger arrives in a small town in western Poland soon after the second world war, and embarks on a string of messy, equally enigmatic affairsThis cult 1960 Polish film is a political absurdist nightmare from director Kazimierz Kutz, writ…
When Johanne, at 17, writes a memoir about her passion for teacher Johanna, the precocious result rattles three generationsHere is the third in a playful trilogy from Norwegian novelist and film-maker Dag Johan Haugerud (after Sex and Love, which appea…
Noรฉmie Merlant, Naomi Watts and Will Sharpe languish in a luxurious hotel in Audrey Diwanโs self-conscious remake of the classic French softcore dramaIf anyone could have rebooted and revitalised the much-mocked 70s softcore-sexy franchise Emmanuelle, …
Baltasar Kormรกkurโs beautifully shot romance sees Kristรณfer try to track down Miko, a lifetime after their youthful love affair is unexpectedly cut shortNotes tucked between the leaves of a book; plastic cherry blossoms; a verse or two of an old poem โฆ…
The star of La Dolce Vita and A Man and a Woman, who has died aged 92, had a unique screen presence that was at once alluring and forbiddingThe superbly aquiline beauty and patrician style of Anouk Aimรฉe made her a 60s movie icon in France, Italy and e…
The Oscar-nominated star of A Man and a Woman, who has died aged 92, embodied the bohemian glamour of the French New Wave Continue reading…
Lives change course after a chance encounter between a construction worker and an academic in Bas Devosโs microscopically detailed gem of a filmBelgian director Bas Devosโs gentle, delicate and quietly beguiling movie, a prize winner last year in Berli…
Shot on 16mm, Marija Kavtaradzeโs quiet drama tells a mature and moving story about the many ways people can be in loveA delicate love affair blooms in the new film from Lithuanian director Marija Kavtaradze, which explores attraction and intimacy with…
Elene Naverianiโs film tells the story of a middle-aged single woman in a remote Georgian village whose life is changed for ever after a near-death experienceHere is a marvellously tender story of loneliness and love which starts with a bigger bang tha…
Director Zeno Gratonโs debut subtly yet powerfully shows two young men growing closer and pushing back against the systemInside the austere walls of a juvenile detention centre, love dares to blossom against all odds in Zeno Gratonโs bold and tender fe…
Gerhard Liebmann is brilliant as Eismayer, an Austrian drill officer who falls for a recruit in this intelligent, understated film about acceptanceThe character of Sgt Maj Eismayer is instantly recognisable from every basic training movie youโve ever s…
These two striking, improvisatory remasters by Kira Muratova resemble early Polanski, and establish the late director as a fiercely intelligent auteurTwo complex, elusive and demanding films by the late Moldovan-born, Ukrainian-based director Kira Mura…
A gay man cheats on his husband with a straight woman in this fiercely sexy and heartbreaking tale of young Parisians Fiercely sexy and piercingly sad, Ira Sachsโs new movie is a tremendous return to form after the disappointment of his very odd Isabel…
A Yugoslavian pulp classic from 1967, this tale of a young womanโs erotic misadventures more than matches the French new wave for black humourDuลกan Makavejev was the Serbian creator of the incendiary 1971 movie WR: Mysteries of the Organism, the final …
Netflix show already familiar to anyone with primary school age children, features its heroes crimefighting and teenage yearning in an extended episodeIf youโre the owner of a primary school age child and a Netflix subscription, youโre probably already…
The stylish feature debut from Cรฉline Devaux explores the life of businesswoman Jeanne, her louche ex-lover and a strangely seductive new acquaintanceParisian film-maker and illustrator Cรฉline Devaux, whose award-winning shorts have been shown at Canne…
Co-starring Josh OโConnor, the film from the Call Me By Your Name director is an exploration of โlove, friendship and male rivalryโChallengers, the new film set in the world of professional tennis, starring Zendaya, Josh OโConnor and Mike Faist, has se…
