All articles by Jonathan Romney
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Reviews‘Writing Life: Annie Ernaux Through The Eyes Of High School Students’ review: Claire Simon’s involving celebration of the French author
Doc Leipzig’s opening film explores how modern French teenagers respond to Ernaux’s body of work
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Reviews‘Giant’ review: Pierce Brosnan and Amir El-Masry spar in unpretentious boxing biopic
Rowan Athale’s film is executive produced by Sylvester Stallone and premieres in London
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Reviews‘Hair, Paper, Water…’ review: Poetic documentary shines a light on Vietnam’s Indigenous Ruc people
Nicolas Graux and Truonh Minh Quy’s film follows a 60-year-old Ruc woman in Vietnam’s Quang Binh province
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Reviews‘Moss & Freud’ review: Dramatisation of the 2002 collaboration between Lucian Freud and Kate Moss
Derek Jacobi and Ellie Bamber star as the artist and model in James Lucas’s lacklustre drama
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Reviews‘Joan Of Arc’ review: Hlynur Pálmason’s lyrical ode to the Icelandic landscape
The director’s non-narrative companion to ’The Love That Remains’ again features his three children
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Reviews‘Good Valley Stories’ review: José Luis Guerín documents life in Barcelona’s Vallbona district
The Spanish director’s latest work plays in San Sebastian Competition
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Reviews‘Two Pianos’ review: Arnaud Desplechin drama features a virtuoso performance from Charlotte Rampling
François Civil and Nadia Tereszkiewicz also star in this tale of a concert pianist distracted by matters of the heart
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Reviews‘Six Days In Spring’ review: A Côte d’Azur vacation proves revelatory in intimate Joachim Lafosse drama
Eye Haïdara impresses as the divorced woman at the heart of Joachim Lafosse’s San Sebastian Competition title
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Reviews‘Sundays’ review: Astute family drama finds a Spanish teenager drawn to convent life
Newcomer Blanca Soroa shines in Alaúda Ruiz de Azúa’s’s sensitive San Sebastian Competition title
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Reviews‘In-I In Motion’ review: Juliette Binoche’s directorial debut is account of her 2008 dance-drama
Binoche worked with British choreographer and dancer Akram Khan on performance In-I
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Reviews‘Los Tigres’ review: Alberto Rodríguez’s aquatic thriller sees a sibling duo lured into crime
Antonio de la Torre and Bárbara Lennie star in the Spanish director’s tense San Sebastian Competition title
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Reviews‘Without Permission’ review: An exiled filmmaker returns to Iran in Hassan Nazer’s bold docudrama
Real Iranian children discuss love and hope in the British-Iranian director’s Busan Competition feature
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Reviews‘27 Nights’ review: Daniel Hendler’s colourful drama contemplates attitudes to ageing
The actor-director also stars alongside Marilú Marini’s carefree octogenarian in Netflix’s San Sebastián opener
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Reviews‘Silent Friend’ review: Hungarian filmmaker Ildiko Enyedi’s paean to nature stars Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
Contemplative Venice Competition title weaves three human stories across a German university campus
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Reviews‘In The Hand Of Dante’ review: Oscar Isaac takes a dual role in Julian Schnabel’s offbeat biopic
Gerard Butler, Gal Gadot and Jason Momoa also star in Schnabel’s sprawling look at the Italian poet
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Reviews‘Human Resource’ review: A pregnant worker navigates a hostile world in Thai drama
Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit’s Venice Horizons title features an enigmatic central performance from Prapamonton Eiamchan
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Reviews‘A House of Dynamite’ review: Idris Elba heads Kathryn Bigelow’s ambitious nuclear age thriller
Elba leads a superb cast including Rebecca Ferguson and Jared Harris in the director’s Venice competition title
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Reviews‘Made In EU’ review: Stephan Komandarev follows ‘Blaga’s Lessons’ with sharp Bulgarian Covid drama
Gergana Pletnyova stars as a seamstress who becomes the scapegoat for a Covid-19 outbreak
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Reviews‘The Wizard Of The Kremlin’ review: Jude Law impresses as Vladimir Putin in Oliver Assayas drama
Dense Venice competition title also stars Paul Dano as Putin’s chief strategist
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Reviews‘Landmarks’ review: Lucrecia Martel critiques Argentina’s treatment of its Indigenous communities
The writer/director’s debut documentary focuses on a real-life murder trial








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