Latest festival reviews – Page 102
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‘The Good Boss’: San Sebastian Review
It’s Javier Bardem’s show as he runites with Fernando Leon de Aranoa for this parable of power in a provincial Spanish town
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‘I Want To Talk About Duras’: San Sebastian Review
Claire Simon’s exploration of the relationship between Yann Andréa and Marguerite Duras is a remarkable two-hander
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‘Arthur Rambo’: San Sebastian Review
Laurent Cantet follows the sharp rise and sudden fall of a young French writer in the social media age
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‘Fever Dream’: San Sebastian Review
Peruvian filmmaker Claudia Llosa explores biological bonds in this chilling environmental drama
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‘Yuni’: Toronto Review
Kamila Andini’s Indonesian feature wins the coveted Platform prize at Tiff 2021
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‘Maixabel’: San Sebastian Review
Iciar Bollain looks at the reality of reconciliation for those on both sides of Spain’s terrorist war
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‘Earwig’: San Sebastian Review
Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s third feature is defiantly unknowable
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‘Costa Brava, Lebanon’: Venice Review
A terrific debut from Mounia Akl set in a Lebanese mountain idyll – until the landfill arrives next door
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‘Charlotte’: Toronto Review
The troubled wartime life of artist Charlotte Salomon is animated in this graceful European production
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‘The Good House’: Toronto Review
Sigourney Weaver, Kevin Kline co-star in this New England-set domestic drama
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‘Dear Evan Hansen’: Toronto Review
‘Emotional manipulations that sometimes border on cruel’: Ben Platt reprises his role for Universal’s screen adaptation of the hit Broadway musical
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‘The Survivor’: Toronto Review
Barry Levinson casts Ben Foster as Harry Haft, a boxer traumatised by his experiences in a Nazi death camp
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‘Drunken Birds’: Toronto Review
A Mexican migrant worker searches for his lover in Ivan Grbovic’s lush Canadian drama
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‘Good Madam’: Toronto Review
Jenna Cato Bass examines the horror of servitude in South Africa’s affluent gated communities
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‘Inexorable’: Toronto Review
Fabrice du Welz’s domestic thriller sees a stranger strike at the heart of the prosperous literally family headed by Benoit Poelvoorde
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‘The Eyes Of Tammy Faye’: Toronto Review
Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield portray notorious televangalists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker
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‘The Mad Women’s Ball’: Toronto Review
The fifth feature from Melanie Laurent is a lavish tale of headstrong women in 19th century Paris