Jonathan Romney
Reviews‘Milo’ review: Marion Cotillard and Théodore Pellerin head moody, dramatically inert French thriller
The latest from veteran French filmmaker Nicole Garcia premieres in San Sebastian
Reviews‘Saints’ review: Rising star Victoria Luengo brings spiky energy to uneven Spanish heist thriller
The second feature from Basque filmmaker Mikel Gurrea premieres in San Sebastian
Reviews‘What Remains’ review: A couple head in different directions in meditative, visually striking Turkish road movie
Yesim Ustaoglu’s distinctive feature premieres in San Sebastian, and will be released in Turkey by Mubi
Reviews‘In My Father’s Room’ review: A woman gets to know her late father in delicate debut from Japanese novelist-turned-filmmaker Maha Harada
Yu Aoi and Issey Ogata star in the film, which premieres in San Sebastian competition
Reviews‘Ghost Song’ review: Fatih Akin’s San Sebastián opener is emotionally satisfying supernatural romance
A strong perormance from newcomer Mariam Dawoud anchors Akin’s tender Hamburg-set love story
Reviews‘Ground Floor’ review: Absurdist Hungarian comedy effectively turns a run-down apartment block into state of the nation satire
Ádám Tompa stars in director Gábor Reisz’s follow-up to 2023 Venice Horizons winner Explanation For Everything
Reviews‘Until The Day Ends’ review: Vivid if limited portrait of revolutionary youth in modern-day Serbia
Jelena Maksimović’s fiction debut relies heavily on the charisma of lead Jelena Maksimović
Reviews‘Dau’ review: Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s sprawling new installment in his conceptual project is an affecting study of Soviet tyranny
The Venice competition title follows previous features and a 2019 art installation
Reviews‘Company’ review: Casey Affleck directs, co-writes and stars in atmospheric but convoluted slice of American Gothic
Nick Nolte, Scott McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn and Emily Alyn Lind also star in Affleck’s twisting Venice competititon premiere
Reviews‘No Paradise If You Are Killed By A Woman’ review: Tense, blunt-edged Kurdish war thriller follows a female sniper in Iraq
Halkawt Mustafa’s female-led action drama brings glossy genre mechanics to a story of Kurdish resistance
Reviews‘Conversation With The Sea’ review: Kamel El Basha anchors Muayad Alayan’s uneven Palestinian drama
A Jerusalem-set mystery turns one man’s private reckoning into a pointed portrait of Palestinian life in Israel
Reviews‘Woman Unknown’ review: May el-Toukhy’s Venice competition title is formal yet ferocious post-war Danish drama
Mathilde Arcel puts in a terrific lead performance in the director’s follow-up to Long Story Short and Queen Of Hearts
Reviews‘Holy Wood Dust’ review: Victor Kossakovsky’s study of trees lacks the revelatory magic of his best works
The Russian documentarist’s follow-up to Trillion and Architecton premieres out of competition in Venice
Reviews‘Imperium’ review: Sergei Loznitsa surveys the 1970s Soviet empire in revealing archive epic
Italian archive footage forms the basis of an expansive documentary with clear contemporary resonance
Reviews‘House Of The Wind’ review: A tender Cameroonian study of solitude and unexpected kinship
Auguste Bernard Kouemo Yanghu’s debut finds emotional force in an ageing mother’s search for connection
Reviews‘The State Of Us’ review: A boisterous Bradford night out turns sentimental in dewey-eyed UK debut
Ollie Gardner and Jake Harvey’s first feature follows a pair of Northern friends coping with terminal illness
Reviews‘Fruit Gathering’ review: Karlovy Vary’s Crystal Globe winner is delicate LGBTQ Myanmar drama
Aung Phyoe’s fine-tuned feature debut is powered by an impressive central performance from Nandar Myat Aung
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
Reviews‘Red Rocks’ review: Bruno Dumont assembles a charming young cast for his beguiling childhood fantasy
Dumon’s distinctive, accessible new feature bows in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight
Reviews‘The Unknown’ review: Léa Seydoux brings conviction to an ambitious but frustrating body-swap mystery
Niels Schneider also stars in Arthur Harari’s twisting Cannes Competition title