San Sebastian reviews
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‘Serpent’s Path’: Busan Review
Kiyoshi Kurosawa updates his 1998 crime thriller and moves the action from Tokyo to France
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’Marco’: San Sebastián Review
Eduard Fernandez grounds this Incredible true-life story of a fake Holocaust survivor that closes San Sebastian
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‘The Last Breath’: San Sebastian Review
Costa-Gravas deals with death in this wordy philosophical drama
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‘The Wailing’: San Sebastian Review
A mysterious entity stalks three young women in this effective Spanish-language horror debut
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‘The Man Who Loved UFOs’: San Sebastian Review
Diego Lerman’s based-on-real-life dramedy stars Leonardo Sbaraglia as a TV reporter gone rogue
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‘Modi - Three Days On The Wings Of Madness’: San Sebastian Review
Johnny Depp directs a chaotic romp through three days in the life of Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani
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‘Bound In Heaven’: San Sebastian Review
Veteran screenwriter Huo Xin makes her directorial debut with a genre-infused drama about domestic abuse
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‘On Falling’: San Sebastian Review
A Portugese factory worker in Scotland struggles to make a connection in this effective debut
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‘When Fall Is Coming’: San Sebastián Review
Francois Ozon is in fine fettle for this later-life puzzle piece starring Helene Vincent
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‘Hard Truths’: San Sebastián Review
Mike Leigh bites back with this trenchant piece starring a superb Marianne-Jean Baptiste
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‘Emmanuelle’: San Sebastian Review
Audrey Diwan presents a ‘paralysingly pointless’ update of the 70s soft-porn figure
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‘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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‘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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‘The Practice’: San Sebastian Review
A burnt-out yoga teacher searches for new enlightenment in this Chile-set wellness satire
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‘Kalak’: San Sebastian Review
A tough story of sexual abuse anchors Isabella Eklöf’s Greenland-set follow-up to ’Holiday’
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‘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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‘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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‘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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‘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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‘Sultana’s Dream’: San Sebastian Review
Isabel Heguera’s enchanting animation springs off a 1905 Muslim feminist text