All articles by Wendy Ide, Senior international critic – Page 53
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Reviews'My Pure Land': Edinburgh Review
A taut and exciting feature debut by the UK’s Sarmad Masud, based and shot in Pakistan
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Reviews'The Last Photograph': Edinburgh Review
Danny Huston directs and stars in this drama about the aftermath of the Lockerbie disaster
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Reviews'That Good Night': Edinburgh Review
Sir John Hurt’s final role sees the actor confront the dying of the light
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Reviews'Churchill': Review
Brian Cox turns in a solid performance as Winston Churchill in this talky biopic set against the backdrop of the Second World War
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Reviews'In The Fade': Cannes Review
An unflinching Diane Kruger anchors this unfortunately-timed drama about a terrorist attack in Hamburg
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Reviews'Zombillenium': Cannes Review
A new employee must find his feet at a monster theme park in this French animation
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Reviews'I Am Not A Witch': Cannes Review
An arresting debut from Rungano Nyoni is set in and around Zambia’s capital city Lusaka
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Reviews'Radiance': Cannes Review
Dir/scr: Naomi Kawase. Jap/Fr. 2017. 101 mins.Naomi Kawase uses the tentative connection between a partially-sighted photographer and a woman who writes film audio descriptions in this finespun exploration of beauty, impermanence and loss. Typically delicate and as gentle as a balm, the film’s well-intentioned earnestness will ...
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Reviews'The Intruder': Cannes Review
A social worker takes on the Italian mob in Leonardo Di Costanzo’s social drama
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Reviews'Out': Cannes Review
An unemployed factory worker travels from Slovakia to the Baltics to catch a big fish
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Reviews'The Day After': Cannes Review
Korea’s most prolific director delivers more of the same in his third film - so far - this year
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Reviews'Tehran Taboo': Cannes Review
Ali Soozandeh’s visually striking animation reveals a little-seen side to Tehran’s youth
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Reviews'A Man Of Integrity': Cannes Review
An Iranian goldfish farmer finds his principles under serious threat in this muted drama
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Reviews'Beauty And The Dogs': Cannes Review
Dir/scr: Kaouther Ben Hania. Tunisia/France/Sweden/Norway/Lebanon/Qatar/Switzerland. 2017. 100mins.An evening which starts with a carefree student party and selfies with friends descends into a Kafkaesque waking nightmare for 21-year-old Mariam (Mariam Al Ferjani). Loosely based on a real event, Kaouther Ben Hania’s gruelling drama collates vividly immediate fragments ...
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Reviews'Ava': Cannes Review
Critics Week title is a ‘hail of bullets’ drama involving a rebellious 13 year-old girl who is going blind
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Reviews'Sleepless': Review
Jamie Foxx makes a high-octane return in Swiss director Baran bo Odar’s bullet-strafed blitzkrieg about corrupt cops in Las Vegas
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Reviews'House Of Z': Tribeca Review
There’s no shortage of fashion drama to feed this documentary about couture’s former enfant terrible Zac Posen
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Reviews'A Suitable Girl': Tribeca Review
Dirs: Sarita Khurana, Smriti Mundhra. USA-India. 2017. 97 mins.The subject of Indian arranged marriages is a deceptively tricky one to dissect in a documentary, existing as it does at the point where Western cultural beliefs and Eastern traditions meet head to head. And while this triptych ...