Festival reviews – Page 5
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Reviews‘Mirrors No. 3’ review: Rich study of trauma and grief unfolds in the German countryside
Christian Petzold’s fourth collaboration with actor Paula Beer is small but mighty
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Reviews‘Urchin’ review: Harris Dickinson directs an elevated study of addiction
British actor-turned-filmmaker bows in Un Certain Regard
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Reviews‘Wild Foxes’ review: Samuel Kircher lands a punch in school boxing drama
Kircher headlines Valery Carnoy’s thoughtful Directors’ Fortnight debut
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Reviews‘The Wave’ review: Sebastian Lelio's ambitious feminist musical is set to Chile’s university strikes
Ambitious project set during the 2018 protests is an over-reach for the Oscar-winning director
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Reviews‘The Chronology Of Water’ review: Kristen Stewart’s debut is an intense deep-dive into the life of a troubled artist
Length and repetition undermines a fiery film anchored by Imogen Poots
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Reviews‘Sons Of The Neon Night’ review: With no expense spared, Juno Mak constructs an alternate 1990s Hong Kong
The actor/director’s tricky, long-awaited follow-up to ‘Rigor Mortis’ bows in Cannes’ Midnight strand
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Reviews‘Bono: Stories Of Surrender’ review: U2’s Bono looks back in energetic solo show
Andrew Dominik turns Bono’s 2022 stage tour into an immersive performance for Apple
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Reviews‘Eddington’ review: Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal face off in Ari Aster’s wan satire
Pandemic-era Competition title falls short in its attempts to skewer right-wing American ideology
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Reviews‘The Little Sister’ review: Hafsia Herzi explores identity and faith in coming-of-age story
The film adaptation of the award-winning novel The Last One premieres in Cannes’s Main Competition
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Reviews‘Her Will Be Done’ review: A young woman faces an ancient evil in rural French horror
Polish actor Maria Wrobel impresses in Julia Kowalski’s atmospheric second feature
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Reviews‘The Plague’ review: Joel Edgerton produces, stars in timely hazing drama
Charlie Polinger’s perceptive debut plays out at an all-boys water polo camp
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Reviews‘Amrum’ review: Fatih Akin directs coming-of-age drama set in 1945 Germany
Diane Kruger stars in delicate story set on a remote island as the Nazi regime falls
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Reviews‘The President’s Cake review’: Quinzaine crowd-pleaser is set in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq
A young girl, a scene-stealing cockerel and a culinary challenge fuel Hasan Hadi’s winning 1990s-set story
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Reviews‘Sirât’ review: Oliver Laxe’s long strange trip stars Sergi López
Fraught trek across the desert in search of missing daughter is a cinematic risk for French-Spanish auteur
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Reviews‘Case 137’ review: Lea Drucker anchors Dominik Moll’s police corruption drama
The 2018 Paris Yellow Vests protests provide the backdrop for this controlled procedural
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Reviews‘Left-Handed Girl’ review: Sean Baker-backed family drama is set on the bustling streets of Taipei
Performance-driven Critics Week title is the directorial debut of Baker’s regular collaborator Shih-Ching Tsou
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Reviews‘A Pale View Of Hills’ review: Kazuo Ishiguro’s debut novel gets tangled between Japan and the UK
Kei Ishikawa directs a dual timeline between 1950s Japan and 1980s England
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Reviews‘Brand New Landscape’ review: Debut explores a Tokyo family in crisis
Kenichi Endo stars in Yuiga Danzuka’s precise Directors Fortnight drama
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Reviews‘The Girl In The Snow’ review: Louise Hemon turns to drama with a story from her own family’s past
Documentarian’s debut is beautifully based in the Hautes Alpes
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Reviews‘Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk’ review: Gaza documentary is a poignant final testimony
Sepideh Farsi’s ACID film pays tribute to its subject Fatma Hassona, killed in Gaza in April