All articles by Jonathan Romney
-
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
-
Reviews‘Another Day’ review: Adèle Exarchopoulos is the beating heart of Jeanne Herry’s naturalistic study of alcoholism
The Cannes Competition title also stars Mathilde Roehrich and Brigitte Sy
-
Reviews‘Rehearsals For A Revolution’ review: Four decades of Iranian history informs this timely, moving documentary
Pegah Ahangarani’s deeply personal film hits the sweet spot between intimate diary and political narrative
-
Reviews‘John Lennon: The Last Interview’ review: Steven Soderbergh’s poignant doc is undercut by egregious AI visuals
Uneven Cannes Special Screening is structured around Lennon and Yoko Ono’s final interview