All articles by Jonathan Romney – Page 8
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‘Walk Up’: San Sebastian Review
A middle-aged film director attempts to find a place to truly belong in the latest work from Hong Sang-soo
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‘Great Yarmouth - Provisional Figures’: San Sebastian Review
Portuguese director Marco Martins presents a damning look at immigrant life in modern Britain
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‘A Hundred Flowers’: San Sebastian Review
Genki Kawamura makes his debut with an adaptation of his own novel about dementia
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‘Winter Boy’: San Sebastian Review
Christophe Honoré’s personal coming-of-age story is a showcase for a tremendous debut from young actor Paul Kircher
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‘Il Boemo’: San Sebastian Review
The Czech Republic bids for Oscar glory with Petr Vaclav’s sumptuous period drama/musical
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‘Runner’: San Sebastian Review
The bleak midwest forms the setting for Marian Mathias’s ’oppressively lugubrious’ debut
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‘The Substitute’: San Sebastian Review
A supply teacher struggles to stay on top of his classrom in a tough Buenos Aires barrio in Diego Lerman’s drama
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‘When The Waves Are Gone’: Venice Review
Filipino director Lav Diaz takes direct aim at the Duterte regime with this tale of crime and corruption
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‘The Hanging Sun’: Venice Review
UK/Italian Jo Nesbo adaptation from Sky closes out the 79th Venice Film Festival with a thud
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‘Clare’: Venice Review
The life and times of the founder of the Poor Clares, as written and directed by Susanna Nicchiarelli
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‘No Bears’: Venice Review
Imprisoned Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi delivers a powerful statement of tenacity and defiance
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‘Call Of God’: Venice Review
Kim Ki-Duk’s posthumous final film fails to leave a lasting impression
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‘Dry’: Venice Review
Paolo Virzi’s sprawling, inter-connected drama places a parched Rome in the middle of a three-year drought
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‘Beyond The Wall’: Venice Review
Iranian writer-director Vahid Jalilvand delivers a howl of political fury
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‘Freedom On Fire: Ukraine’s Fight For Freedom’: Venice Review
Evgeny Afineevsky assembles urgent, immediate footage from the Ukraine front
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‘The Maiden’: Venice Review
Canadian Graham Foy’s debut is an ambitious portrait of teenage life
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‘The Banshees Of Inisherin’: Venice Review
Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson attempt to settle scores in Martin McDonagh’s darkly comic 1920s-set Irish drama
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‘Master Gardener’: Venice Review
Joel Edgerton seeks redemption in Paul Schrader’s Garden of Eden
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‘The Happiest Man In The World’: Venice Review
Two 40-somethings connect over a shared past in Teona Strugar Mitevska’s dramatically potent Sarajevo-set feature
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‘Medusa Deluxe’: Locarno Review
This experimental one-take drama is a darkly comic meta-whodunnit set at a hairdressing competition