All Reviews articles – Page 86
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‘Cairo Conspiracy' (aka 'Boy From Heaven’): Cannes Review
A ’Name of the Rose’ style murder mystery transposed to Cairo has the potential to travel further
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'Little Nicholas - Happy As Can Be’: Review
Charming animation exploring the creation and evolution of fictional French schoolboy Little Nicholas
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‘Enys Men’: Cannes Review
Mark Jenkin’s Cannes debut is an offbeat Cornish folk horror more concerned with atmosphere than story
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‘Sons Of Ramses’: Cannes Review
Clément Cogitore paints both an authentic community portrait and a serious, moody take on the Parisian crime drama
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‘Harkis’: Cannes Review
A sensitive portrait of Algerian soldiers who fought with the French army in their country’s war for independence
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‘El Agua’: Cannes Review
Elena López Riera makes her daring debut in Director’s Fortnight with this magical realist romantic drama
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‘99 Moons’: Cannes Review
A frank, erotically charged portait of two lovers plays out in Cannes’ ACID programme
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‘Love According To Dalva’: Cannes Review
Newcomers Zelda Samson and Fanta Guirassi excel in this solid if uncomfortable dramatic first feature
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‘Corsage’: Cannes Review
Vicky Krieps is a ’chain-smoking self-absorbed uber-bitch’ in her performance of Empress Elisabeth of Austria
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'One Fine Morning’: Cannes Review
Léa Seydoux is luminous in Mia Hansen-Løve’s intimate drama about loss and love
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‘Hunt’: Cannes Review
‘Squid Game’ star Lee Jung-jae makes his muscular directorial debut with this kinetic, violent thriller
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‘EO’: Cannes Review
At 84, Jerzy Skolimowski continues his career resurgence: his life story of a donkey ‘sizzles with strangeness’
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‘Armageddon Time’: Cannes Review
James Gray returns to Cannes Competition with his self-critical, autobiographical coming-of-age tale about white privilege in America
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‘Mariupolis 2’: Cannes Review
Killed in the city he portrays, the final film from the late Mantas Kvedaravicius was finished by his Ukrainian partner Hanna Bilobrova
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‘Harka’: Cannes Review
Adam Bessa excels as a Tunisian street seller amidst the Arab Spring upheaval in this heartfelt dramatic debut
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‘The Woodcutter Story’: Cannes Review
Mikko Myllylahti’s debut feature is an unpredictable Nordic oddity that plays in a familiar key of muted, comic surrealism
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‘Rodeo’: Cannes Review
Lola Quivoron’s full mileage motocross movie proves she is a director with potential to burn
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‘God’s Creatures’: Cannes Review
Emily Watson puts in a commanding performance in this trad rural Irish mother-son drama
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‘The Eight Mountains’: Cannes Review
A rich, gentle story about a lasting friendship with conventional arthouse appeal shares the Jury Prize at Cannes
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‘Father And Soldier’: Cannes Review
Omar Sy is a father determined to save his son from the French colonial fallout of the First World War