Latest festival reviews – Page 14
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Reviews‘Solids By The Seashore’: Busan Review
Romance blossoms in a south Thailand coastal town affected by climate change in this tender if unfortunately-named debut
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Reviews‘The Exorcist: Believer’: Review
The first in a planned new Exorcist trilogy from director David Gordon Green fails to live up to its legacy
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Reviews‘Because I Hate Korea’: Busan Review
Busan’s opening film follows a disaffected South Korean woman who flees Seoul for New Zealand
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Reviews‘The Monk And The Gun’: Busan Review
’A Yak In The Classroom’ director takes notes from Robert Altman for this Bhutan-set political satire
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Reviews‘Falling Into Place’: Hamburg Review
German actress Aylin Tezel makes her directorial debut with this love story set between Skye and London
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Reviews‘The Rye Horn’: San Sebastian Review
Jaione Camborda’s second, elemental feature wins the Golden Shell at the San Sebastian Film Festival
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Reviews‘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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Reviews‘Foe’: New York Review
Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal star in this dysopian sci-fi drama set in a world ravaged by climate change
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Reviews‘The Vanishing Soldier’: Hamburg Review
A reluctant member of the Israeli Defence Force goes AWOL in Dani Rosenberg’s accomplished second feature
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Reviews‘Through The Night’: San Sebastián Review
A woman attempts to bring justice against the man she says date-raped her in this accomplished Belgian debut
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Reviews‘The Practice’: San Sebastian Review
A burnt-out yoga teacher searches for new enlightenment in this Chile-set wellness satire
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Reviews‘Kalak’: San Sebastian Review
A tough story of sexual abuse anchors Isabella Eklöf’s Greenland-set follow-up to ’Holiday’
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Reviews‘The Successor’: San Sebastian Review
Marc-Andre Grondin impresses as a lauded fashion designer forced back down to his roots in Xavier Legrand’s twisted art thriller
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Reviews‘Un Amor’: San Sebastian Review
Isabel Coixet returns to Spain for this dark adaptation of Sara Mesa’s best-selling novel starring Laia Costa
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Reviews‘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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Reviews‘They Shot The Piano Player’: San Sebastian Review
Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal return to South America and a bossa nova pianist who mysteriously disappeared in 1976
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Reviews‘Sultana’s Dream’: San Sebastian Review
Isabel Heguera’s enchanting animation springs off a 1905 Muslim feminist text
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Reviews‘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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Reviews‘Ex-Husbands’: San Sebastian Review
Griffin Dunne and James Norton star in this wry, accessible comedy of male melancholy
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Reviews‘The Peasants’: Toronto Review
The ’Loving Vincent’ filmmakers return with a vivid oil painted animation about life in 19th-century rural Poland.