All articles by Wendy Ide, Senior international critic – Page 14
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Reviews‘Femme’: Berlin Review
A drag queen takes revenge after being beaten up in this subversive UK thriller starrting Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and George MacKay
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Reviews‘Sisi & I’: Berlin Review
Another portrait of Empress Elisabeth of Austria is enlivened by Sandra Hüller as her lady-in-waiting
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Reviews’Silver Haze’: Berlin Review
‘Dirty God’ director Sacha Polak and star Vicky Knight reunite for this drama based loosely on Knight’s own life
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Reviews‘Boom! Boom! The World vs. Boris Becker’: Berlin Review
The first of two films on tennis legend Boris Backer’s drama-filled life by Alex Gibney
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Reviews‘Kill Boksoon’: Berlin Review
A top female assassin finds herself becoming the target in Byun Sung-hyun’s slick Netflix thriller
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Reviews‘The Beast In The Jungle’: Berlin Review
Anaïs Demoustier sparkles in this most recent adaptation of Henry James’s celebrated novella
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Reviews‘The Survival Of Kindness’: Berlin Review
An imprisoned woman fights for survival in Rolf de Heer’s stark Berlin Competition title
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Reviews‘El Eco’: Berlin Review
Tatiana Huezo’s documentary set in a remote Mexican mountain community is an intimate, immersive portrait of a way of life
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Reviews‘The Siren’: Berlin Review
Sepideh Farsi’s arresting animation, set during the Iran-Iraq War, opens the Panorama section at Berlin
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Reviews‘She Came To Me’: Berlin Review
Rebecca Miller’s wry, knotty drama about a composer and his new muse opens the Berlinale
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Features‘All Quiet On The Western Front’ star Albrecht Schuch quit smoking ahead of the gruelling shoot
Bafta nominee Albrecht Schuch is seeking to broaden the international scope of his career.
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Reviews‘Scrapper’: Sundance Review
Harris Dickinson stars in this Sundance award-winning drama about a grieving 12-year-old who attempts to reconnect with her father
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FeaturesPaul Mescal talks ‘Aftersun’, masculinity and coping with fame: “I’m a self-isolator when I’m working”
Paul Mescal’s star is in the ascendant, with a slew of upcoming roles for major directors
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Reviews‘Flora And Son’: Sundance Review
Eve Hewson shines as a single mother finding a new passion for music in John Carney’s latest comedy
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Reviews‘Heroic’: Sundance Review
A Mexican military cadet is forced to endure an environment of violence and abuse in David Zonana’s second feature
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Reviews‘Animalia’: Sundance Review
A wealthy, heavily pregnant woman experiences a crisis of faith in this enigmatic Morocco-set debut
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Reviews‘Kim’s Video’: Sundance Review
’Maverick-spirited tale of movie-obsession’ starts out in a long-lost New York film institution and ends up in Sicily
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FeaturesFilms of the year 2022: Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide joined Screen in 2015 as a UK-based critic, and also writes for The Observer and Sight & Sound.
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FeaturesSarah Polley on making ‘Women Talking' and why the story meant so much to her
In Women Talking, an ultraconservative religious community’s female members must decide how to confront the sexual abuse they are experiencing. Its writer/director Sarah Polley talks to Screen.
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Reviews‘Hanging Gardens’: Red Sea Review
A young boy finds unlikely treasure in a Baghdad city dump in Red Sea’s Best Film prizewinner