Latest festival reviews – Page 113
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Reviews‘Lingui: The Sacred Bonds’: Cannes Review
A single mother struggles to protect her pregnant daugter in Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s Cannes Competition title
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Reviews‘The Hill Where Lionesses Roar’: Cannes Review
French actress Luana Bajrami makes her directorial debut with this sympathetic drama
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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‘The Souvenir: Part II’: Cannes Review
Joanna Hogg’s sequel to 2019’s ‘The Souvenir’ is both daring and absorbing
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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‘Onoda - 10,000 Nights in the Jungle’: Cannes Review
Opening Un Certain Regard, Arthur Harari’s feature follows a Japanese soldier who fights on through the decades
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Reviews‘Everything Went Fine’: Cannes Review
Sophie Marceau leads a strong cast in Francois Ozon’s quietly moving tribute to his late writing partner, Emmanuele Bernheim
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Reviews‘Ahed’s Knee’: Cannes Review
Nadav Lapid plays in Competition with a caustic story about an Israeli film-maker forced into a cultural compromise
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Reviews‘Val’: Cannes Review
Personal, bittersweet documentary about the life and career of actor Val Kilmer
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Reviews‘Robust’: Cannes Review
Critics Week opens with an enjoyable odd-couple drama starring Gerard Depardieu and Deborah Lukumuena
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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‘The Gravedigger’s Wife’: Cannes Review
The business of life and death in Dijibouti City forms the basis for this Critics Week title
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Reviews‘Between Two Worlds’: Cannes Review
Juliette Binoche stars in Directors’ Fortnight opener about an undercover writer who plans an expose on France’s employment crisis
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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‘Death Knot’: Udine Review
Indonesian genre outing marks a strong - if low-budget - debut for Cornelio Sunny
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Reviews‘Before Next Spring’: Udine Review
A bright ensemble cast tackles the ups and downs of Chinese students in Japan
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Reviews‘Faith Can Move Mountains’: Thessaloniki Review
The potential construction of a monastary in Norway is the catalyst for intrigue in this fascinating documentary
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Reviews‘LUX’: Thessaloniki Review
Intriguing study of an army-training simulation exercise in Geneva
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Reviews’Porno Uncle Jim”: Thessaloniki Review
Stephan Bookas sets out to discover more about his great uncle, 1960s porn baron J.J Proferes