Latest festival reviews – Page 87
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Reviews‘Harka’: Cannes Review
Adam Bessa excels as a Tunisian street seller amidst the Arab Spring upheaval in this heartfelt dramatic debut
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Reviews‘The Woodcutter Story’: Cannes Review
Mikko Myllylahti’s debut feature is an unpredictable Nordic oddity that plays in a familiar key of muted, comic surrealism
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Reviews‘Rodeo’: Cannes Review
Lola Quivoron’s full mileage motocross movie proves she is a director with potential to burn
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Reviews‘God’s Creatures’: Cannes Review
Emily Watson puts in a commanding performance in this trad rural Irish mother-son drama
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Reviews‘The Eight Mountains’: Cannes Review
A rich, gentle story about a lasting friendship with conventional arthouse appeal shares the Jury Prize at Cannes
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Reviews‘Father And Soldier’: Cannes Review
Omar Sy is a father determined to save his son from the French colonial fallout of the First World War
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Reviews‘Alma Viva’: Cannes Review
Portugese Critics Week debut summons a gentle spirit in its tale of tradition and modernity
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Reviews‘Tchaikovsky’s Wife’: Cannes Review
Alena Mikhailova gives an intense lead performance in Kirill Serebrennikov’s ’brooding prestige monument’
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Reviews‘Exterior Night’: Cannes Review
Marco Bellocchio returns to familiar territory with a TV series dramatising the kidnapping of Italian politican Aldo Moro
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Reviews‘Scarlet’: Cannes Review
Directors’ Fortnight opens with Pietro Marcello’s unusual period semi-musical drama
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Reviews‘Final Cut’: Cannes Review
Cannes opens with plenty of laughs in Michel Hazanavicius’ delightfully silly meta zombie remake
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Reviews‘Geographies Of Solitude’: Jeonju Review
Jeonju prize-winner is a beguiling and poetic film set on an isolated strip of land in Canada’s far reaches
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Reviews‘Jeong-sun’: Jeonju Review
Jeonju’s Korean competition prize winner is an intimate and understated exploration of cyberbullying and shame
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Reviews‘Girl Who Dreams About Time’: Jeonju Review
Pared-back doc about a young woman torn between the lure of normal life and a higher calling
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Reviews‘Tales From The Occult’: Udine Review
The first instalment of a new Hongkong horror omnibus gives old school scares with a contemporary twist
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Reviews‘Table For Six’: Udine Review
Sunny Chan serves up a light-hearted, soft-boiled comedy about misguided romance
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Reviews‘Manila By Night’: Udine Review
Ishmael Bernal’s once banned queer classic is beautifully restored and, finally, exposed
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Reviews‘A Human Position’: Jeonju Review
A soulful, pensive character drama about a young Norwegian journalist coming to terms with trauma
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Reviews‘Raydio’: Jeonju Review
A subdued Taiwanese drama about an estranged father and son searching for a connection
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Reviews‘Rabid’: Udine Review
Erik Matti’s bloody horror anthology is hungry for laughs, with a side of social critique