Festival reviews – Page 8
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Reviews‘Julián’ review: Latest animation from Ireland’s Carton Saloon is vibrant Brooklyn-set coming-of-age drama
Louise Bagnall’s feature debut makes its bow at Annecy
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Reviews‘Rogue Trooper’ review: Duncan Jones adapts 2000 AD comic strip into eccentric, entertaining animated actioner
Aneurin Barnard, Jack Lowden and Hayley Atwell lend their voices to Jones’s Annecy premiere
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Reviews‘Lionel’ review: Tender, understated Spanish father-son drama draws from real life
Carlos Saiz’s small-scale feature debut won Transilvania’s top prize
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Reviews‘Lucy Lost’ review: Charming, playful animated adaptation of Michael Morpurgo novel ‘Listen To The Moon’
Olivier Clért’s feature debut plays Annecy competition following its Cannes premiere
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Reviews‘Our Father’ review: Transilvania’s Special Jury Award winner is brooding, unsettling Serbian addiction drama
Goran Stankovic’s feature debut is based on the story of Serbian Orthodox priest Branislav Peranovic, who was jailed for murder
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Reviews‘Iron Boy’ review: French animator Louis Clichy’s first feature is striking, personal study of a challenging childhood
Clichy’s debut bowed in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard before moving on to Annecy competition
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Reviews‘In Waves’ review: French debut animation is handsome, empathetic study of love and grief
French-Vietnamese director Phuong Mai Nguyen’s first feature plays Annecy competition after opening Cannes Critics’ Week
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Reviews‘Labrador - Autopsy Of Silence’ review: Slow-burn Tribeca winner is emotionally-rich Canadian character study
Newcomer Christopher Angatookalook impresses in Rodrigue Jean’s study of guilt, justice and Indigenous identity
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Reviews‘Jail Time Records’ review: Impactful documentary explores the transformative power of music in a Cameroon jail
Dione Roach and Steve Happi’s Tribeca-winning film is executive produced by Taika Waititi and Rita Ora
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Reviews‘The Death Of Robin Hood’ review: Hugh Jackman is the tortured ageing outlaw in sombre, uninspired drama
Michael Sarnoski follows ‘Pig’ and ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ with subversive take on the familiar folk legend
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Reviews‘Birds Of War’ review: Love blossoms across conflict zones in intimate first-person documentary
Directors Janay Boulos and Abd Alkader Habak’s personal film plays Sheffield before a UK/Ireland theatrical release
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Reviews‘The Boy With The Light Blue Eyes’ review: Greek debut is beguiling, lyrical coming-of-age fable
Thanasis Neofotistos’s story of a teenage boy living in a Greek mountain village premieres at SXSW London
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Reviews‘Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day’ review: A spirited Haley Bennett helps lift weighty adaptation
Tina Gharavi’s take on Woolf’s 1919 novel opens SXSW London before a theatrical release
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Reviews‘We Are Aliens’ review: Delicate, sophisticated Japanese animation tracks the fragility of boyhood
Kohei Kadowaki’s debut feature heads to Annecy after a Cannes premiere
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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‘The Birthday Party’ review: Hafsia Herzi and Monica Bellucci head conventional home invasion thriller from Lea Mysius
French Cannes Competition title is an adaptation of the novel by Laurent Mauvignier
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Reviews‘The Dreamed Adventure’ review: Exhilarating Bulgarian borderlands fable makes expert use of non-professional cast
Valeska Grisebach’s unpredictable Cannes Competition entry is led by former geologist Yana Radeva
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Reviews‘Madame’ review: Brooding French debut mines uneasy relationship between wealth and freedom
Helene Rosselet-Ruiz’s Cannes Special Screening features strong performances and confident craft
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Reviews‘Vertiginous’ review: Quentin Dupieux’s outre comedy tackles complex issues of identity through crude animation
The French auteur’s latest work closes Cannes Directors’ Fortnight
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Reviews‘The Station’ review: Moving Yemen-set drama explores the importance of community in the face of war
Yemeni-Scottish filmmaker Sara Ishaq’s debut bows in Cannes Critics’ Week