All articles by Wendy Ide, Senior international critic – Page 29
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Reviews‘Aurora’: Rotterdam Review
Paz Fabrega’s second feature watches the shifting sands between two women and one ambivalent pregnancy
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Reviews‘The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet’: Rotterdam Review
A comet collides with Earth; what happens next is surprisingly low-key, but presciently pleasing all the same
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Reviews‘Pleasure’: Sundance Review
Rigorously-researched drama about a Swedish girl who wants to make it big in LA’s porn business
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Reviews‘The Cemil Show’: Rotterdam Review
A vividy-styled debut from Turkey plays in Rotterdam’s ’Big Screen’ competition
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Reviews‘Mayday’: Rotterdam Review
Feisty feminists, militant weirdness as director Karen Cinorre makes her debut with Grace von Patten and Mia Goth
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Reviews‘First Date’: Sundance Review
Things don’t go entirely to plan when Mike buys a beaten-up car to impress girl-next-door Kelsey
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Reviews‘On The Count Of Three’: Sundance Review
A suicide pact between two depressed men is the basis of Jerrod Carmichael’s off-kilter comedy
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Reviews‘Sabaya’: Sundance Review
Tense and riveting doc follows attempts to free captured Yazidi women from the notorious Al-Hol camp
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Reviews‘Knocking’: Sundance Review
A former psychiatric patient is tormented by noises in the night in a sharp debut from Sweden
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Reviews‘In The Same Breath’: Sundance Review
Timely, and terrifying: Nanfu Wang’s documentary looks at government response to Covid-19 in the US and China
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FeaturesVanessa Kirby discusses that traumatic scene in ‘Pieces Of A Woman’
The actress talks about signing up for a weighty challenge and her visceral performance.
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FeaturesHow Maria Bakalova conquered her nerves for ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’
Bakalova talks pre-Borat roles, the inspiration for Tutar and future projects.
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Reviews‘Lift Like A Girl’: Review
Behind the scenes at Egypt’s unorthodox training camp for champion female weightlifters
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Features50 films to watch this awards season: 2021 edition
Also find out the 10 performances, documentaries and UK indies to tempt voters.
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FeaturesFilms of the year 2020: Wendy Ide
Ide joined Screen in 2015 as a UK-based critic, and also writes for The Observer and Sight & Sound. Read our other critics’ top tens here.
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Reviews‘Under The Open Sky’: Macao Review
An old Yakuza tries to go straight in Miwa Nishikawa’s gentle drama