All articles by Jonathan Romney – Page 13
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Reviews‘A Radiant Girl’: Cannes Review
Sandrine Kiberlain directs this French Occupation drama which plays out in Cannes Critics’ Week
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Reviews‘After Yang’: Cannes Review
Kogonada follows up Colombus with a beautifully-executed tale of AI and identity starring Colin Farrell
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Reviews‘Clara Sola’: Cannes Review
Wendy Chinchilla Araya is a standout in this intense Costa Rican feature playing in Directors’ Fortnight
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Reviews‘Jane By Charlotte’: Cannes Review
Jane Birkin and Charlotte Gainsbourg explore their relationship in this modest, tender documentary
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Reviews‘Rehana’: Cannes Review
Un Certain Regard drama set in Bangladesh follows one woman’s heedless pursuit of justice
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Reviews‘Annette’: Cannes Review
Opening Cannes, Leos Carax’s musical collaboration with the Mael brothers is ’an audacious folly that comes across as grandiose and joyless’
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Reviews‘The Fourth Window’: Thessaloniki Review
Sober and engaging portrait of seminal Israeli novelist Amos Oz
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Reviews‘Faceless’: Hot Docs Review
Hong Kong’s 2019 pro-democracy movement is seen through the eyes of four anonymous young activists
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Reviews‘The Son’: Moscow Review
A middle-aged Iranian man struggles to grow up after the death of his mother
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Reviews‘The Last Dear Bulgaria’: Moscow Review
In 1940s Kazakhstan, a young fruit-grower revives a medicinal strain of apple and attempts to solve a crime
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Reviews‘Him’: Moscow Review
Female director Guro Bruusgaard presents a sensitive portrait of modern masculinity
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Reviews‘1970’: Visions du Reel Review
Prolific documentarist Tomasz Wolski explores a historical protest in Poland, and the authorities’ brutal response
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Reviews‘The Belly Of The Mountain’: Visions du Reel Review
An impressionistic French essay film explores the tragedy of a 2013 airline crash in the Alps
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Reviews‘The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual For Military Occupation’: Visions du Reel Review
Sobering, essential documentary focuses on the testimony of Israeli men who served in Gaza and the West Bank
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Reviews‘Is There Anybody Out There?’: Dublin Review
’Covid crisis’ cinema from the students of Trinity College Dublin
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Reviews‘Je Suis Karl’: Berlin Review
Christian Schwochow’s political thriller focuses on the rise of the youth far-right in his country
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Reviews‘What Do We See When We Look At The Sky?’: Berlin Review
A fairy tale of two lovers and a leisurely evocation of life in Georgia’s city of Kutaisi
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Reviews‘Forest - I See You Everywhere’: Berlin Review
A tangled trail of humanity in Bence Fliegauf’s dark follow-up to a film he made almost two decades ago
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Reviews‘Mr Bachmann and His Class’: Berlin Review
Back to the schoolroom for Maria Speth’s engrossing tutorial
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Reviews‘Bad Luck Banging Or Loony Porn’: Berlin Review
A brash yet slippery piece from Romania’s agent provocateur Radu Jude