All articles by Lee Marshall
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FeaturesHow Il Cinema Ritrovato grew from niche event to one of the world’s leading festivals for classic cinema
The festival, which boasts Wes Anderson, Alexander Payne and Thierry Frémaux as regulars, runs from June 21-29.
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Reviews‘13 Days 13 Nights’ review: Roschdy Zem stars in real-life Kabul extraction thriller
Dramatisation of removal of French citizens from Afghanistan in August 2021
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Reviews‘Resurrection’ review: Jackson Yee stars in Bi Gan’s sprawling cinematic vision
Period-hopping Competition title also stars Shu Qi and Li Gengxi
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Reviews‘The History Of Sound’ review: Josh O’Connor and Paul Mescal are clandestine lovers in US-set period drama
Oliver Hermanus’s intense, restrained film is set on the East Coast during the 1920s
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Reviews‘Fuori’ review: Mario Martone, Valeria Golino zoom in on ‘Art Of Joy’ author Goliarda Sapienza
Mario Martone’s Competition entry focuses on the author’s brief imprisonment and subsequent self-discovery
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Reviews‘A Private Life’ review: Rebecca Zlotowski directs Jodie Foster in her first French-speaking lead
Foster is a Parisian therapist embroiled in a murder mystery in this intriguing, uneven thriller
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Reviews‘Alpha’ review: Julia Ducournau's ‘Titane’ follow-up is set against a mysterious French plague
Tahar Rahim and Golshifteh Farahani star in this surprisingly emotional family drama
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Reviews‘Nouvelle Vague’ review: Richard Linklater dramatises the making of Godard’s ‘Breathless’
Black-and-white French-language homage stars Guillaume Marbeck as legendary director Jean-Luc Godard
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Reviews‘The Wave’ review: Sebastian Lelio's ambitious feminist musical is set to Chile’s university strikes
Ambitious project set during the 2018 protests is an over-reach for the Oscar-winning director
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Reviews‘Amrum’ review: Fatih Akin directs coming-of-age drama set in 1945 Germany
Diane Kruger stars in delicate story set on a remote island as the Nazi regime falls
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Reviews‘Left-Handed Girl’ review: Sean Baker-backed family drama is set on the bustling streets of Taipei
Performance-driven Critics Week title is the directorial debut of Baker’s regular collaborator Shih-Ching Tsou
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Reviews‘Ancestral Visions Of The Future’ review: Intricate visual poem from exiled Lesotho filmmaker
Lemohang Mosese follows up his 2019 arthouse hit ’This Is Not A Burial’
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Reviews‘Yunan’ review: Enigmatic second film in Ameer Fakher Eldin’s ‘Homeland’ trilogy
German islands-set drama plays in Berlin Competition
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Reviews‘1001 Frames’ review: Experimental thriller shot clandestinely in Iran
Mehrnoush Alia uses the legend of Scheherazade to explore male power and manipulation
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Reviews‘Honey Bunch’ review: Bold Canadian period genre from the makers of ’Violation’
Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli pay homage to the past
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Reviews‘Blue Moon’ review: Ethan Hawke sings in Richard Linklater drama
Andrew Scott, Margaret Qualley co-star in a poignant portrait of Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart
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Reviews‘What Marielle Knows’ review: Stylish, sly German comedy starring Julia Jentsch
Sly laughs all round as a teenager gets the power to read her parents’ minds in Berlin Competition title
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Reviews‘The Longing’ review: Toshizo Fujiwara directs and stars in sweet Panorama drama
An Osaka pancake chef helps an ex-con out
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Reviews‘How To Be Normal’ review: Peppy debut from Austria tackles mental illness
Star Luisa-Celine Gaffron shines in Perspectives premiere
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Reviews‘The Ice Tower’ review: Marion Cotillard stars in Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s Snow Queen re-take
Poised drama plays in Berlin’s Competition