Festival reviews – Page 53
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Reviews‘Monster’: Cannes Review
Hirokazu Kore-eda brings emotional nuance to a moral tale about school bullying, scored by the late Ryuichi Sakamoto
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Reviews‘Anselm’: Cannes Review
Wim Wenders take a 3D dive into the life and work of German artist Anselm Kiefer
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Reviews‘Occupied City’: Cannes Review
Steve McQueen’s solemn tribute to Amsterdam is an ethereal visualisation of collective memory past and present
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Reviews‘Tiger Stripes’: Cannes Review
An adolescent girl faces a violent transition to womanhood in this Malaysian art-horror
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Reviews‘The Goldman Case’: Cannes Review
Director’s Fortnight opens with the mesmerising, volatile trial of Pierre Goldman, played by Ariel Worthalter
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Reviews‘Ama Gloria’: Cannes Review
A six-year-old girl must contend with losing her beloved nanny in this ’charmed, heartwarming’ Critics Week opening film
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Reviews‘Jeanne Du Barry’: Cannes Review (opening film)
Johnny Depp and Maiwenn open the Cannes film festival as the King of France and his low-born lover
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Reviews‘A Brighter Tomorrow’: Cannes Review
Cannes Competition title sees Nanni Moretti return to his old ways in this greatest-hits story of a frustrated film-maker
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Reviews’Where Would You Like To Go?’: Jeonju Review
Jeonju’s closing film is partially set in Warsaw where a widow attempts to navigate her grief after a sudden tragedy
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Reviews‘There Is A Stone’: Jeonju Review
Japan-set meditation about the connection between strangers wins top prize at Jeonju
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Reviews‘While The Green Grass Grows’: Visions Du Reel Review
Grand Prix winner at Visions du Reel is part of an epic, personal project from director Peter Mettler
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Reviews‘Machtat’: Visions du Reel Review
A trio of female wedding singers find freedom in their art in this involving Tunisian documentary
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Reviews‘An Inhabited Volcano’: Visions du Reel Review
Thoughtful documentary about the recent volcanic eruption on the Spanish island of La Palma
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Reviews‘My Father’s Prison’: Visions du Reel Review
The imprisonment of a Venezuelan cop – the filmmaker’s father – is the subject of this personal documentary
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Reviews‘Knit’s Island’: Visions du Reel Review
Eye-opening exploration of the communities which exist inside survivalist online video game ‘DayZ’.
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Reviews‘Fauna’: Visions du Reel Review
A goat-herd and a high-tech research lab in rural Spain provoke this exploration of the connection between man, nature and science
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Reviews‘Nightwatchers’: Visions du Reel Review
Urgent profile of attempts by refugees to make the dangerous nocturnal mountain crossing from Italy to France
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Reviews‘Our Body’: Visions du Reel Review
Filmmaker Claire Simon’s own cancer diagnosis forms part of her candid exploration of the medical treatment of women
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Reviews‘On The Edge’: CPH: DOX Review
A sole psychiatrist faces seemingly unsurmountable odds in a challenging hospital outside Paris
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Reviews‘Drifter’: BFI Flare Review
A young gay man embarks on a journey of discovery through Berlin’s progressive LGBTQ+ community