All articles by Wendy Ide, Senior international critic – Page 29
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Reviews‘Heaven: To The Land Of Happiness’: Busan Review (opening film)
An amiable, ambling odd-couple comedy from South Korean auteur Im Sang-Soo
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Reviews‘Botox’: Hamburg Review
Kaveh Mazaheri’s feature debut follows two sisters plotting to keep their brother’s disappearance a secret
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Reviews‘Poser’: Hamburg Review
Noah Dixon and Ori Segev’s debut presents a ’Single White Female’ scenario brewing in a local alternative music scene
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Reviews‘Summit Of The Gods’: Review
French-language Netflix animation pick-up tackles the chilly world of elite mountain climbers
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Reviews‘Costa Brava, Lebanon’: Venice Review
A terrific debut from Mounia Akl set in a Lebanese mountain idyll – until the landfill arrives next door
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Reviews‘Charlotte’: Toronto Review
The troubled wartime life of artist Charlotte Salomon is animated in this graceful European production
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Reviews‘Inexorable’: Toronto Review
Fabrice du Welz’s domestic thriller sees a stranger strike at the heart of the prosperous literally family headed by Benoit Poelvoorde
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Reviews‘The Mad Women’s Ball’: Toronto Review
The fifth feature from Melanie Laurent is a lavish tale of headstrong women in 19th century Paris
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Reviews‘The Middle Man’: Toronto Review
Bent Hamer’s intriguing drama may be set in America but it retains a distinctly Scandinavian accent
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Reviews‘Benediction’: Toronto Review
Terence Davies explores the impact of war on poet Siegfried Sassoon in this lyrical biopic
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Reviews‘Silent Land’: Toronto Review
A priveleged couple are torn apart in Aga Woszczyńska’s measured debut
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Reviews‘Huda’s Salon’: Toronto Review
Hany Abu-Assad sets the stage for his political thriller in a Bethelem beauty parlour
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Reviews‘Inu-Oh’: Venice Review
Strikingly original anime from Masaaki Yuasa set in 14th Century Japan
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Reviews‘Halloween Kills’: Venice Review
Old rubber face is back, and Bentonville is on fire in director David Gordon Green’s second franchise instalment
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Reviews‘7 Prisoners’: Venice Review
This knotty tale of modern-day slavery in Brazil’s Sao Paulo cements Alexandre Moratto’s reputation as a talent to watch
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Reviews’Mona Lisa And The Blood Moon’: Venice Review
Ana Lily Amirpour stalks the streets of the Big Easy with Kate Hudson and Burning’s Jeong Jong-seo
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Reviews‘Amira’: Venice Review
Mohamed Diab’s film interrogates the status of a Palestinian teenager whose identity is suddenly thrown into question
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Reviews‘Last Night In Soho’: Venice Review
Director Edgar Wright takes a wild ride through London’s seedy past