Festival reviews – Page 14
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Reviews‘Dance First’: San Sebastian Review
Gabriel Byrne is transformed into Samuel Beckett for James Marsh’s stylised look back at the Irish writer’s life
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Reviews‘Foe’: New York Review
Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal star in this dysopian sci-fi drama set in a world ravaged by climate change
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Reviews‘The Vanishing Soldier’: Hamburg Review
A reluctant member of the Israeli Defence Force goes AWOL in Dani Rosenberg’s accomplished second feature
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Reviews‘Through The Night’: San Sebastián Review
A woman attempts to bring justice against the man she says date-raped her in this accomplished Belgian debut
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Reviews‘The Practice’: San Sebastian Review
A burnt-out yoga teacher searches for new enlightenment in this Chile-set wellness satire
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Reviews‘Kalak’: San Sebastian Review
A tough story of sexual abuse anchors Isabella Eklöf’s Greenland-set follow-up to ’Holiday’
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Reviews‘The Successor’: San Sebastian Review
Marc-Andre Grondin impresses as a lauded fashion designer forced back down to his roots in Xavier Legrand’s twisted art thriller
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Reviews‘Un Amor’: San Sebastian Review
Isabel Coixet returns to Spain for this dark adaptation of Sara Mesa’s best-selling novel starring Laia Costa
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Reviews‘MMXX’: San Sebastian Review
Cristi Puiu’s four-chapter plunge into Romania’s year of Covid-19 is ‘a heavyweight head-scratcher’
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Reviews‘They Shot The Piano Player’: San Sebastian Review
Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal return to South America and a bossa nova pianist who mysteriously disappeared in 1976
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Reviews‘Sultana’s Dream’: San Sebastian Review
Isabel Heguera’s enchanting animation springs off a 1905 Muslim feminist text
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Reviews‘A Silence’: San Sebastian Review
Joaquin LaFosse lines up Daniel Auteil and Emmanuelle Devos to retell Belgium’s grim ’Hissel Affair’
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Reviews‘Ex-Husbands’: San Sebastian Review
Griffin Dunne and James Norton star in this wry, accessible comedy of male melancholy
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Reviews‘The Peasants’: Toronto Review
The ’Loving Vincent’ filmmakers return with a vivid oil painted animation about life in 19th-century rural Poland.
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Reviews‘A Difficult Year’: Toronto Review
This French social satire sees two lost souls find some purpose in an environmental action group
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Reviews‘NYAD’: Toronto Review
Annette Bening goes the distance as real life endurance swimmer Diana Nyad
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Reviews‘Wildcat’: Toronto Review
Ethan Hawke directs his daughter Maya Hawke as Southern Gothic writer Flannery O’Connor
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Reviews‘Fingernails’: Toronto Review
Jessie Buckley and Riz Ahmed fight the laws of attraction in this near-future set drama in which love is a science
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Reviews‘The Burial’: Toronto Review
Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones are the odd couple of flashy lawyer and small town client in this mid-90s set crowdpleaser
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Reviews‘El Paraiso’: Venice Review
A Colombian immigrant and her adult son find their bond under threat in this intense Italian drama.