All articles by Wendy Ide, Senior international critic – Page 2
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Reviews‘The Beloved’ review: Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s muscular drama features a blistering Javier Bardem
Victoria Luengoemilia also stars in Sorogoyen’s bold Cannes Competition entry
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Reviews‘Gentle Monster’ review: Léa Seydoux is excellent in Marie Kreutzer’s undisciplined follow-up to ‘Corsage’
Cannes Competition title explores the collateral damage of abuse
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Reviews‘Club Kid’ review: Jordan Firstman’s queer drama is triumphant, acidic portrait of New York’s gay scene
The ’I Love LA’ star’s feature debut makes an impact in Cannes Un Certain Regard
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Reviews‘The Meltdown’ review: Distinctive drama sees a young girl lose her innocence in post-Pinochet Chile
Manuela Martelli second feature bows in Cannes Un Certain Regard
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Reviews‘Nagi Notes’ review: A stranger unsettles a rural Japanese community in Koji Fukada’s subdued drama
Fukada’s Cannes Competition premiere stars Shizuka Ishibash and Takako Matsu
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Reviews‘Dua’ review: Blerta Basholli follows ‘Hive’ with taut drama set against the tensions of 1990s Kosovo
The director’s Cannes Critics Week title features an impressive performance from newcomer Pinea Matoshi
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Reviews‘Heat’ review: Experiential, immersive look at life in the hottest places on Earth
The latest work from Swiss filmmaker Jacqueline Zünd premieres at Visions du Reel
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Reviews‘Jaripeo’ review: Lyrical, layered documentary portrait of Mexico’s queer rodeo subculture
The film plays Visions du Reel after a Sundance premiere and Berlin Panorama berth
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Reviews‘Time And Water’ review: Sara Dosa follows ‘Fire Of Love’ with poetic study of Iceland’s changing landscape
The CPH:DOX premiere explores the threat posed by climate change to the country’s glaciers
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Reviews‘All Rivers Spill Their Stories To The Sea’ review: Jeanie Finlay follows ‘Your Fat Friend’ with empathetic portrait of a community in turmoil
This CPH:DOX premiere follows the beleagured fishing communities of England’s north east coast
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Reviews‘Hell’s Army’ review: Slick doc follows Russian journalists on case of alarming new world order
Oscar-nominated director Richard Rowley follows Katya Hakim as she tracks Russia’s Wagner mercenary force
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Reviews‘Whispers In May’ review: Lyrical, warm Chinese debut is poignant blend of documentary and fiction
Dongnan Chen’s CPH:DOX competition title follows three teenage girls on a momentous journey
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Reviews‘Amazomania’ review: Agile doc reframes 1996 expedition to isolated Korubo community
Swedish filmmaker Nathan Grossman’s CPH:DOX title was made in collaboration with the Korubo people
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Reviews‘I Heard That They Are Not Going To See Each Other Anymore’ review: Offbeat, idiosyncratic Taipei-set debut defies easy categorisation
The improvised first feature from Ka Ki Wong bows in CPH:DOX Next Wave
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Reviews‘The Cord’ review: Gritty, urgent doc follows one-woman crusade to fix Venezuela’s maternity system
French filmmaker Nolwenn Hervé’s feature follows Carolina as she fights to support the mothers of Maracaibo
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Reviews‘Mariinka’ review: CPH:Dox opener is arresting but tonally uneven account of life in east Ukraine
Belgian filmmaker Pieter-Jan De Pue filmed his observational documentary over 10 years
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Reviews‘500 Miles’ review: Bill Nighy and Maisie Williams star in mawkish Irish drama
Overly-sentimental adaptation of Mark Lowery novel premieres at Dublin
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Reviews‘Soumsoum, The Night Of The Stars’ review: Gentle magical-realist fable follows a spiritual connection in rural Chad
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s follow-up to Lingui, The Sacred Bonds is a less propulsive, more pensive work
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Reviews‘Lali’ review: First all-Pakistani film to play Berlin is heady, tonally disjointed comedy thriller
Sarmad Sultan Khoosat’s Berlin Panorama title is unafraid of defying genre convention
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Reviews‘The Garden We Dreamed’ review: Mexican migrant drama puts lyrical, affecting spin on a well-worn genre
Joaquin del Paso’s third film stars Nehemie Bastien and Faustin Pierre as a couple attempting to make a forest home