Locarno Reviews
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Reviews‘You Don’t Belong Here’ review: Locarno Golden Leopard winner is tense, slow-burn study of Romanian masculinity
Florin Serban’s cool, clinical drama about a strained father-son relationship will next play Sarajevo
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Reviews‘Love Lessons’ review: A retired teacher finds he has a lot to learn in Martin Provost’s light, unsurprising French drama
Fabrice Luchini, Emmanuelle Devos, Chiara Mastroianni and Carole Bouquet star in the Locarno Piazza Grande premiere
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Reviews‘Nowhere To Lay My Eyes’ review: Hong Sangsoo’s latest proves sparse, minor-key family drama
The prolific South Korean filmmaker debuts his new work in Locarno competition
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Reviews‘The House On The Moon’ review: Singapore’s Nelson Yeo turns Chinese moon goddess myth into ponderous flight of fancy
The filmmaker returns to Locarno competition after 2023 Golden Leopard win for debut ‘Dreaming & Dying’
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Reviews‘Concrete Land’ review: Sensitive observational doc follows an exiled Afro-Palestinian-Bedouin family in Jordan
Asmahan Bkerat’s intimate feature was filmed over eight years and premieres at Locarno
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Reviews‘Down The Arm Of God’ review: Caleb Landry Jones co-writes and stars in well-intentioned US homelessness drama
Luc Besson produces Peter Brunner’s feature, which premieres in Locarno’s Piazza Grande
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Reviews‘Nobody’s Violence’ review: Denis Côté’s twisting thriller confronts profound questions of mortality
The filmmaker’s regular collaborator Larissa Corriveau stars in the gripping Locarno competition title
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Reviews‘At Night’ review: Experimental, allusive UK debut explores women’s shared experiences
Beatrice Gibson’s Paris-set Locarno premiere features cinematography from filmmaker Ben Rivers
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Reviews‘Manhunt’ review: Intense psychological thriller follows two troubled boys across the Canadian wilderness
Wayne Wapeemukwa’s Locarno competition title is inspired by real life events
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Reviews‘The Green Eyes’ review: Locarno opener is visually striking, tonally uneven French asylum drama
Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh’s magical realist film takes inspiration from the rare condition of resignation syndrome
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Reviews‘God Will Not Help’ review: Croatian filmmaker Hana Jusic’s intense second feature revels in its mysteries
This slow-burn drama stars Manuela Martelli as an enigmatic stranger
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Reviews’Yakushima’s Illusion’ review: Vicky Krieps stars in Naomi Kawase’s humanistic Japanese hospital drama
Writer/director Kawase presents a delicately-handled study of the country’s challenging organ donation landscape
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Reviews‘Two Seasons, Two Strangers’ review: Locarno Golden Leopard winner is poetic drama from Japan’s Sho Miyake
A Korean writer searches for creative and romantic fulfilment in Japan
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Reviews‘The Dead Of Winter’ review: Emma Thompson saves the day in this formulaic thriller
Locarno premiere finds the beloved star playing a grieving widow who must rescue a kidnapped young woman
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Reviews‘The Legend Of The Happy Worker’ review: Thomas Haden Church and Josh Whitehouse star in uneven Lynchian fable
Adaptation of S.E. Feinberg’s play is directed by Duwayne Dunham, longtime David Lynch editor
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Reviews‘Dracula’ review: Romania’s Radu Jude presents a typically inventive study of the vampire myth
The director follows up Berlin Silver Bear-winning Kontinental ’25 with this provocative portmanteau
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Reviews‘The Birthday Party’ review: Willem Dafoe heads an international cast in entertaining tale of wealthy excess
Miguel Angel Jiminez’s Mediterranean island-set thriller also stars Joe Cole, Vic Carmen Sonne and Christos Stergioglou
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Reviews‘With Hasan In Gaza’ review: Palestinian filmmaker journeys through rediscovered footage in poignant documentary
Kamal Aljafari brings to Locarno a raw portrait of everyday life in Gaza, 2001, that chimes with current events
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Reviews‘In The Land Of Arto’ review: Camille Cottin and Zar Amir star in thoughtful Armenian drama
Tamara Stepanyan’s feature debut opens Locarno
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Reviews‘Youth (Hard Times)’: Locarno Review
The second in Wang Bing’s documentary trilogy returns to the young migrant workers who populate the factories of China’s Xisheng Road