All articles by Wendy Ide, Senior international critic – Page 7
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Reviews‘11 Rebels’: Tokyo Review
Tokyo opens with a blisteringly old-fashioned Samurai slice-’em-up
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Reviews‘The Extraordinary Miss Flower’: London Review
A box of love letters is the catalyst for Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard’s lyrical documentary
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Reviews‘That Christmas’: London Review
Feelgood Netflix animation based on the book by Richard Curtis
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Reviews‘Thank You For Banking With Us’: London Review
Two sisters strain against Palestine’s patriarchal bonds in this effective Ramallah-set debut
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Reviews‘Joy’: London Review
James Norton, Bill Nighy and Thomasin McKenzie star in this surprisingly sterile 1970s IVF drama
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Reviews‘Endurance’: London Review
Doc uses digital technology to bring Shackleton’s 1914 Antarctic expedition back to colourful life
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Reviews‘For Rana’: Busan Review
A circus motorcyclist in Iran is desperate to find a new heart for his ailing daughter
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Reviews‘Montages Of A Modern Motherhood’: Busan Review
A first-time mother comes under increasing pressure in this astute Hong Kong drama
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Reviews‘Waterdrop’: Busan Review
A bereaved teenager goes to extreme lengths to find a new family in this uneven Korean debut
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Reviews‘Sicilian Lessons’: Venice Review
An ex-politician goes undercover in this Sicilian mob comedy which fails to hit the target
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Reviews‘April’: Venice Review
An doctor in rural Georgia risks herself to care for her female patients in Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Venice Jury Prize-winning feature
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Reviews‘Harvest’: Venice Review
Athina Rachel Tsangari’s film is a textured adaptation of a novel set in a 17th century Scottish village
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Reviews‘Familiar Touch’: Venice Review
Sensitive drama follows an American woman struggles to keep hold of herself in the face of dementia
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Reviews‘Don’t Cry, Butterfly’: Venice Review
A woman turns to the spirits to win back her philandering husband in this enigmatic Vietnamese debu
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Reviews‘The New Year That Never Came’: Venice Review
The fall of Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu is explored in this 1989-set debut which won the top Horizons prize at Venice
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Reviews‘I’m Still Here’: Venice Review
Walter Salles directs Fernanda Torres in a standout performance as a real-life matriarch in military-ruled Brazil of the 1970s
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Reviews‘Battleground’: Venice Review
Gianni Amelio explores the moral complications of conflict in this hospital-set First World War drama
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Reviews‘And Their Children After Them’: Venice Review
Small town in France, bad teenage decisions for the third feature by the Boukherma twins
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Reviews‘Cloud’: Venice Review
The cybernet gets viciously real in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s latest web-inspired thriller
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Reviews‘Three Friends’: Venice Review
Emmanuel Mouret delivers a knotty Lyon-set romantic drama starring Camille Cottin