All articles by Wendy Ide, Senior international critic
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Reviews‘Crescendo’ review: A French opera is rocked by scandal in Agnès Jaoui’s tone-deaf #MeToo satire
Daniel Auteuil, Vincenzo Amato and Claire Chust star alongside Jaoui in blunt Cannes Out Of Competition premiere
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Reviews‘A Man Of His Time’ review: A superb Swann Arlaud powers Emmanuel Marre’s ambitious, overlong Vichy France drama
The Cannes Competition title follows real-life opportunist Henri Marre as he seeks to make a mark in 1940s France
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Reviews‘Death Has No Master’ review: Asia Argento finds herself adrift in heady, uneven Venezuelan drama
Jorge Thielen Armand’s hallucinatory thriller premieres in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight
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Reviews‘The Samurai And The Prisoner’ review: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s handsome Japanese period drama is a staid siege mystery
Kurosawa’s Cannes Premiere title lacks the action of his previous pictures
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Reviews‘Dora’ review: K-pop star Kim Do-yeon heads July Jung’s feverish South Korean psychodrama
Jung follows ‘Next Sohee’ and ‘A Girl At My Door’ with Cannes Un Certain Regard title
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Reviews‘Viva Carmen’ review: Sébastien Laudenbach follows ‘Chicken For Linda!’ with vivid animated take on Bizet’s ‘Carmen’
Laudenbach’s third feature premieres in Cannes Directors Fortnight before moving on to Annecy
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Reviews‘Hope’ review: A rural South Korean community comes under attack in Na Hong-jin’s thunderously entertaining genre mash-up
The director’s follow-up to ‘The Wailing’ stars Hwang Jung-min and ’Squid Game’’s Hoyeon
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Reviews‘The Beloved’ review: Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s muscular drama features a blistering Javier Bardem
Victoria Luengoemilia also stars in Sorogoyen’s bold Cannes Competition entry
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Reviews‘Gentle Monster’ review: Léa Seydoux is excellent in Marie Kreutzer’s undisciplined follow-up to ‘Corsage’
Cannes Competition title explores the collateral damage of abuse
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Reviews‘Club Kid’ review: Jordan Firstman’s queer drama is triumphant, acidic portrait of New York’s gay scene
The ’I Love LA’ star’s feature debut makes an impact in Cannes Un Certain Regard
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Reviews‘The Meltdown’ review: Distinctive drama sees a young girl lose her innocence in post-Pinochet Chile
Manuela Martelli second feature bows in Cannes Un Certain Regard
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Reviews‘Nagi Notes’ review: A stranger unsettles a rural Japanese community in Koji Fukada’s subdued drama
Fukada’s Cannes Competition premiere stars Shizuka Ishibash and Takako Matsu
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Reviews‘Dua’ review: Blerta Basholli follows ‘Hive’ with taut drama set against the tensions of 1990s Kosovo
The director’s Cannes Critics Week title features an impressive performance from newcomer Pinea Matoshi
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Reviews‘Heat’ review: Experiential, immersive look at life in the hottest places on Earth
The latest work from Swiss filmmaker Jacqueline Zünd premieres at Visions du Reel
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Reviews‘Jaripeo’ review: Lyrical, layered documentary portrait of Mexico’s queer rodeo subculture
The film plays Visions du Reel after a Sundance premiere and Berlin Panorama berth
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Reviews‘Time And Water’ review: Sara Dosa follows ‘Fire Of Love’ with poetic study of Iceland’s changing landscape
The CPH:DOX premiere explores the threat posed by climate change to the country’s glaciers
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Reviews‘All Rivers Spill Their Stories To The Sea’ review: Jeanie Finlay follows ‘Your Fat Friend’ with empathetic portrait of a community in turmoil
This CPH:DOX premiere follows the beleagured fishing communities of England’s north east coast
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Reviews‘Hell’s Army’ review: Slick doc follows Russian journalists on case of alarming new world order
Oscar-nominated director Richard Rowley follows Katya Hakim as she tracks Russia’s Wagner mercenary force
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Reviews‘Whispers In May’ review: Lyrical, warm Chinese debut is poignant blend of documentary and fiction
Dongnan Chen’s CPH:DOX competition title follows three teenage girls on a momentous journey
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Reviews‘Amazomania’ review: Agile doc reframes 1996 expedition to isolated Korubo community
Swedish filmmaker Nathan Grossman’s CPH:DOX title was made in collaboration with the Korubo people