All articles by Wendy Ide, Senior international critic – Page 25
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‘Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over’: Docs Ireland Review
A compulsively watchable cultural document of a stroppy, scrappy misfit
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‘Far Eastern Golgotha’: Docs Ireland Review
An impressive debut with ’a boisterous, anarchic energy to match its charismatic but self-destructive subject’
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‘Martyrs Lane’: Fantasia Review
Strange visions haunt Ruth Platt’s melancholy supernatural story
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‘What Josiah Saw’: Fantasia Review
Buried family trauma is excavated in Vincent Grashaw’s Southern Gothic drama
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‘Indemnity’: Fantasia Review
A wrongfully accused man is chased by cops and mercenaries in this paranoid political thriller
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‘Hotel Poseidon’: Fantasia Review
Welcome to Stef Lernous’ nightmarish debut, ’a repulsively compelling one-off’
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‘Who We Love’: Galway Review
An Irish schoolgirl is targeted for her sexuality in Graham Cantwell’s coming-of-age drama
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‘The Restless’: Cannes Review
A seemingly perfect marriage begins to collapse under the weight of mental illness
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‘Marx Can Wait’: Cannes Review
Marco Bellocchio looks back in sadness at the death of his twin brother
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‘Casablanca Beats’: Cannes Review
A vibrant musical from Nabil Ayouch, shot over two years at the cultural centre he founded
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‘Prayers For The Stolen’: Cannes Review
Tatiano Huezo’s intimate tale of Mexican adolescents makes its bow in Un Certain Regard
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‘The Story Of My Wife’: Cannes Review
Ildiko Enyedi’s lengthy and lifeless drama adapts the 1942 novel by Milan Fust
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‘Neptune Frost’: Cannes Review
Cyber-musical from Rwanda showing in Directors’ Fortnight displays defiant and dizzying originality
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‘Lamb’: Cannes Review
Confident Icelandic debut which ’walks a delicate balance between supernatural thriller and absurdist comedy’
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‘Invisible Demons’: Cannes Review
Indian filmmaker Rahul Jain pulls no punches about his homeland’s environmental crisis
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‘Commitment Hasan’: Cannes Review
Turkey’s Semih Kaplanoglu continues his ‘Commitment’ trilogy in Cannes Un Certain Regard
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‘Amparo’: Cannes Review
An intense and personal debut from Colombian filmmaker Simon Mesa Soto
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‘Peaceful’: Cannes Review
Emmanuelle Bercot returns to Cannes with a tough cancer drama starring Catherine Deneuve and Benoit Magimel
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‘Bloody Oranges’: Cannes Review
Jean-Christophe Meurisse pushes buttons with his provocative Cannes Midnight entry
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‘Small Body’: Cannes Review
A young woman attempts to save the soul of her stillborn child in 1900s Italy