All articles by Jonathan Romney – Page 5
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‘Suspended Time’: Berlin Review
Olivier Assayas’s nostalgic, introspective lockdown drama is loosely based on the director’s own life
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‘No Other Land’: Berlin Review
A Palestinian-Israeli collective documents how a beleaguered West Bank community is resisting the Israeli army
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‘Last Swim’: Berlin Review
Freewheeling London-set debut is a confident opener to Berlin’s Generations sidebar
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‘At Averroes & Rosa Parks’: Berlin Review
Nicolas Philibert profiles two Parisian psychiatric units in the second of a planned trilogy following ’On The Adamant’
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‘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
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‘Veni Vidi Vici’: Rotterdam Review
Sharp Austrian satire takes careful aim at the lifestyles of the super-rich
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Features
Films 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.
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‘DEPOT - Reflecting Boijmans’: Review
Rotterdam’s state-of-the-art statement by Sonia Herman Dolz is an irrestible advert for an edifice
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‘Stolen’: Mumbai Review
Stolen baby drama from India spins out at a breakneck pace for debut director Karan Tejpal
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‘The Red Suitcase’: Mumbai Review
Nepalese debut follows roads less travelled - both visually and in terms of its oblique narrative
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‘Starve Acre’: London Review
Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark struggle to deal with tragedy in Daniel Kokatajlo’s 70s-set folk horror
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‘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
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‘Kalak’: San Sebastian Review
A tough story of sexual abuse anchors Isabella Eklöf’s Greenland-set follow-up to ’Holiday’
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‘MMXX’: San Sebastian Review
Cristi Puiu’s four-chapter plunge into Romania’s year of Covid-19 is ‘a heavyweight head-scratcher’
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‘A Silence’: San Sebastian Review
Joaquin LaFosse lines up Daniel Auteil and Emmanuelle Devos to retell Belgium’s grim ’Hissel Affair’
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‘Ex-Husbands’: San Sebastian Review
Griffin Dunne and James Norton star in this wry, accessible comedy of male melancholy
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‘Close To You’: Toronto Review
Trans actor Elliot Page brings his personal experiences to this tale of strained family relationships
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‘Memory’: Venice Review
Michel Franco tackles multiple harrowing issues in this New York-set drama starring Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard
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'Out Of Season': Venice Review
Stéphane Brizé changes register for this romance starring Guillaume Canet and Alba Rohrwacher
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‘Woman Of…’: Venice Review
A trans-woman’s entire life comes under the lens in Malgorzata Szumowska abd Michał Englert’s tough Polish drama.