All articles by Lee Marshall – Page 2
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‘A Private Life’ review: Rebecca Zlotowski directs Jodie Foster in her first French-speaking lead
Foster is a Parisian therapist embroiled in a murder mystery in this intriguing, uneven thriller
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‘Alpha’ review: Julia Ducournau's ‘Titane’ follow-up is set against a mysterious French plague
Tahar Rahim and Golshifteh Farahani star in this surprisingly emotional family drama
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‘Nouvelle Vague’ review: Richard Linklater dramatises the making of Godard’s ‘Breathless’
Black-and-white French-language homage stars Guillaume Marbeck as legendary director Jean-Luc Godard
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‘The Wave’ review: Sebastian Lelio's ambitious feminist musical is set to Chile’s university strikes
Ambitious project set during the 2018 protests is an over-reach for the Oscar-winning director
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‘Amrum’ review: Fatih Akin directs coming-of-age drama set in 1945 Germany
Diane Kruger stars in delicate story set on a remote island as the Nazi regime falls
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‘Left-Handed Girl’ review: Sean Baker-backed family drama is set on the bustling streets of Taipei
Performance-driven Critics Week title is the directorial debut of Baker’s regular collaborator Shih-Ching Tsou
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‘Ancestral Visions Of The Future’ review: Intricate visual poem from exiled Lesotho filmmaker
Lemohang Mosese follows up his 2019 arthouse hit ’This Is Not A Burial’
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‘Yunan’ review: Enigmatic second film in Ameer Fakher Eldin’s ‘Homeland’ trilogy
German islands-set drama plays in Berlin Competition
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‘1001 Frames’ review: Experimental thriller shot clandestinely in Iran
Mehrnoush Alia uses the legend of Scheherazade to explore male power and manipulation
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‘Honey Bunch’ review: Bold Canadian period genre from the makers of ’Violation’
Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli pay homage to the past
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‘Blue Moon’ review: Ethan Hawke sings in Richard Linklater drama
Andrew Scott, Margaret Qualley co-star in a poignant portrait of Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart
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‘What Marielle Knows’ review: Stylish, sly German comedy starring Julia Jentsch
Sly laughs all round as a teenager gets the power to read her parents’ minds in Berlin Competition title
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‘The Longing’ review: Toshizo Fujiwara directs and stars in sweet Panorama drama
An Osaka pancake chef helps an ex-con out
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‘How To Be Normal’ review: Peppy debut from Austria tackles mental illness
Star Luisa-Celine Gaffron shines in Perspectives premiere
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‘The Ice Tower’ review: Marion Cotillard stars in Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s Snow Queen re-take
Poised drama plays in Berlin’s Competition
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‘Punching The World’ review: A fresh take on German radicalisation
Constanze Klaue’s Perspectives title is set in a small East German town post-reunification
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‘No Beast. So Fierce.’ review: Richard III moves to modern Berlin, and becomes Rashida
Burhan Qurbani’s female-centric fourth feature plays as a Berlin Special screening
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Features
Films of the year 2024: Lee Marshall
Lee Marshall joined Screen in 1996 as an Italy-based film critic. He also writes on travel, design and culture for a range of UK, US and Italian publications.
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‘Trains’: IDFA Review
IDFA top prize-winner is a timeless train trip through black-and-white archive footage
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‘Writing Hawa’: IDFA Review
IDFA breakout charts one Afghan mother’s quest to educate herself - just as the Taliban rolls into Kabul