Jonathan Romney
Reviews‘My Father’s Diaries’: Visions du Reel Review
Filmmaker Ado Hasanovic revisits the Balkan War through his father’s archival video and diary footage
Reviews‘Mother Vera’: Visions du Reel Review
A Belorusian convent is the setting for this unique UK-produced story of spiritual self-realisation
Reviews‘Back To Black’: Review
Pallid Amy Winehouse biopic is an impressive platform for its star, Marisa Abela
Reviews‘Shambhala’: Berlin Review
Seductive Himalayan odyssey follows a pregnant Neplaese woman as she tries to find her husband in Llasa
Reviews‘Black Tea’: Berlin Review
An African woman seeks a new life, and new connections, in Guangzhou, China
Reviews‘A Traveler’s Needs’: Berlin Review
Isabelle Huppert is an enigmatic Frenchwoman in Korea in her latest collaboration with Hong Sangsoo
Reviews‘Langue Etrangere’: Berlin Review
Two penpals from France and Germany navigate an in-person relationship in Claire Berger’s coming-of-age drama
Reviews‘The Empire’: Berlin Review
Northern France plays host to an epic battle of good and evil in Bruno Damont’s outre sci-fi
Reviews‘Suspended Time’: Berlin Review
Olivier Assayas’s nostalgic, introspective lockdown drama is loosely based on the director’s own life
Reviews‘No Other Land’: Berlin Review
A Palestinian-Israeli collective documents how a beleaguered West Bank community is resisting the Israeli army
Reviews‘Last Swim’: Berlin Review
Freewheeling London-set debut is a confident opener to Berlin’s Generations sidebar
Reviews‘At Averroes & Rosa Parks’: Berlin Review
Nicolas Philibert profiles two Parisian psychiatric units in the second of a planned trilogy following ’On The Adamant’
Reviews‘Small Things Like These’: Berlin Review
Cillian Murphy is a quiet man with a conscience in 1980s Ireland in this adaptation of Claire Keegan’s novella
Reviews‘Veni Vidi Vici’: Rotterdam Review
Sharp Austrian satire takes careful aim at the lifestyles of the super-rich
FeaturesFilms of the year 2023: Jonathan Romney
A longtime contributor to Screen, Jonathan Romney also writes for Film Comment, Sight & Sound and The Observer, and teaches at the UK’s National Film and Television School.
Reviews‘DEPOT - Reflecting Boijmans’: Review
Rotterdam’s state-of-the-art statement by Sonia Herman Dolz is an irrestible advert for an edifice
Reviews‘Stolen’: Mumbai Review
Stolen baby drama from India spins out at a breakneck pace for debut director Karan Tejpal
Reviews‘The Red Suitcase’: Mumbai Review
Nepalese debut follows roads less travelled - both visually and in terms of its oblique narrative
Reviews‘Starve Acre’: London Review
Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark struggle to deal with tragedy in Daniel Kokatajlo’s 70s-set folk horror
Reviews‘Dance First’: San Sebastian Review
Gabriel Byrne is transformed into Samuel Beckett for James Marsh’s stylised look back at the Irish writer’s life