All articles by Jonathan Romney – Page 3
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Reviews‘Modi - Three Days On The Wings Of Madness’: San Sebastian Review
Johnny Depp directs a chaotic romp through three days in the life of Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani
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Reviews‘Afternoons Of Solitude’: San Sebastian Review
Albert Serra’s immersive, unflinching documentary follows Peruvian bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey
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Reviews‘When Fall Is Coming’: San Sebastián Review
Francois Ozon is in fine fettle for this later-life puzzle piece starring Helene Vincent
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Reviews‘Hard Truths’: San Sebastián Review
Mike Leigh bites back with this trenchant piece starring a superb Marianne-Jean Baptiste
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Reviews‘Love’: Venice Review
Second part of a trilogy from Norway which began at Berlin with ‘Sex’ and continues at Venice
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Reviews‘Youth (Homecoming)’: Venice Review
Wang Bing’s five-year documentary project about young Chinese factory workers draws to a sombre close
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Reviews‘Pavements’: Venice Review
Alex Ross Perry’s hybrid documentary charts the fortunes of US indie band Pavement
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Reviews‘Happyend’: Venice Review
Neo Sora’s fiction debut follows a group of students in near-future Japan as they attempt to disrupt surveillance society
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Reviews‘Phantosmia’: Venice Review
Lav Diaz explores the legacy of harm and the power of late-life redemption in his latest meditative work
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Reviews‘The Room Next Door’: Venice Review
Pedro Almodóvar’s Golden Lion winner is also his English-language debut starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore
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Reviews‘Youth (Hard Times)’: Locarno Review
The second in Wang Bing’s documentary trilogy returns to the young migrant workers who populate the factories of China’s Xisheng Road
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Reviews‘The Brutalist’: Venice Review
Brady Corbet’s meticulous Silver Lion-winning drama centres around a Hungarian architect in 1940s America
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Reviews‘Apocalypse In The Tropics’: Venice Review
Petra Costa follows The Edge Of Democracy with this look at the rise of religious populism in Brazilian politics
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Reviews’Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’: Venice Review
Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder take a ghoulish trip down memory lane in Tim Burton’s full-blooded sequel
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Reviews’Lilies Not For Me’: Edinburgh Review
Fionn O’Shea is a gay novelist struggling with the homophobia of 1920s England in this surprisingly staid period debut
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Reviews‘Mexico 86’: Locarno Review
Bérénice Béjo stars as a Guatemalan activist exiled to Mexico who must rebuild her relationship with her 10-year-old son
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Reviews‘Sad Jokes’: Munich Review
Cool, intelligent second feature from Fabian Stumm mines the dangers of being misunderstood
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Reviews‘The Most Precious Of Cargoes’: Cannes Review
Michel Hazanavicius’s animated Competition title is set against the backdrop of Holocaust
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Reviews‘The Seed Of The Sacred Fig’: Cannes Review
Mohammad Rasoulof delivers a flawed but urgent exposure of the societal tensions within Iran
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Reviews‘Grand Tour’: Cannes Review
Miguel Gomes transposes the traditional European grand tour narrative to Asia for his experimental Competition entry