All articles by Jonathan Romney – Page 12
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‘Annette’: Cannes Review
Opening Cannes, Leos Carax’s musical collaboration with the Mael brothers is ’an audacious folly that comes across as grandiose and joyless’
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‘The Fourth Window’: Thessaloniki Review
Sober and engaging portrait of seminal Israeli novelist Amos Oz
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‘Faceless’: Hot Docs Review
Hong Kong’s 2019 pro-democracy movement is seen through the eyes of four anonymous young activists
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‘The Son’: Moscow Review
A middle-aged Iranian man struggles to grow up after the death of his mother
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‘The Last Dear Bulgaria’: Moscow Review
In 1940s Kazakhstan, a young fruit-grower revives a medicinal strain of apple and attempts to solve a crime
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‘Him’: Moscow Review
Female director Guro Bruusgaard presents a sensitive portrait of modern masculinity
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‘1970’: Visions du Reel Review
Prolific documentarist Tomasz Wolski explores a historical protest in Poland, and the authorities’ brutal response
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‘The Belly Of The Mountain’: Visions du Reel Review
An impressionistic French essay film explores the tragedy of a 2013 airline crash in the Alps
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‘The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual For Military Occupation’: Visions du Reel Review
Sobering, essential documentary focuses on the testimony of Israeli men who served in Gaza and the West Bank
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‘Is There Anybody Out There?’: Dublin Review
’Covid crisis’ cinema from the students of Trinity College Dublin
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‘Je Suis Karl’: Berlin Review
Christian Schwochow’s political thriller focuses on the rise of the youth far-right in his country
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‘What Do We See When We Look At The Sky?’: Berlin Review
A fairy tale of two lovers and a leisurely evocation of life in Georgia’s city of Kutaisi
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‘Forest - I See You Everywhere’: Berlin Review
A tangled trail of humanity in Bence Fliegauf’s dark follow-up to a film he made almost two decades ago
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‘Mr Bachmann and His Class’: Berlin Review
Back to the schoolroom for Maria Speth’s engrossing tutorial
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‘Bad Luck Banging Or Loony Porn’: Berlin Review
A brash yet slippery piece from Romania’s agent provocateur Radu Jude
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‘Fabian – Going to the Dogs’: Berlin Review
Tom Schilling stars in Domink Graf’s elaborate 1931 Berlin-set drama
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‘In The Earth’: Sundance Review
Ben Wheatley returns to (his) nature with a pandemic sci-fi scarer starring Joel Fry
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‘The Pink Cloud’: Sundance Review
An uncannily prescient drama from Brazil marks a powerful debut from Iuli Gerbase
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‘Human Factors’: Sundance Review
Ronny Trocker’s cat-and-mouse game with the viewer strays into Haneke territory