Festival reviews – Page 40
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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.
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Reviews‘The Holdovers’: Toronto Review
Alexander Payne reunites with his ‘Sideways’ star Paul Giamatti for this wistful 1970-set character study
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Reviews‘Sorry/Not Sorry’: Toronto Review
Louis CK documentary reveals the deadly serious abusive underbelly of the US comedy circuit
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Reviews‘The Critic’: Toronto Review
Ian McKellen is a gloriously acerbic 1930s theatre critic in a film that proves too genteel for its central character
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Reviews‘Rustin’: Toronto Review
Colman Domingo plays the man behind the March on Washington - who found himself sidelined because he was gay
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Reviews‘Next Goal Wins’: Toronto Review
Michael Fassbender stars in Taika Waititi’s crowdpleasing underdog sporting drama set in American Samoa
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Reviews‘In Restless Dreams: The Music Of Paul Simon’: Toronto Review
Alex Gibney documents the work of Paul Simon in this extensive tour guided by the musician himself
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Reviews‘Seven Veils’: Toronto Review
Atom Egoyan reunites with Amanda Seyfried for this story of a troubled opera director who is staging ’Salome’
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Reviews‘Solo’: Toronto Review
Montreal’s drag scene comes under the spotlight in this affecting drama about a romance that turns sour
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Reviews‘Together 99’: Toronto Review
Lukas Moodysson presents a tender sequel to his 2000 portrait of a Stockholm commune
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Reviews‘Dear Jassi’: Toronto Review
Tarsem Sing Dhandwar dramatises the true story of an Indian couple who fell foul of the class system
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Reviews‘Concrete Utopia’: Toronto Review
Korea’s Oscar hopeful is a dynamic dystopian disaster move set in a post-earthquake apartment building