All articles by Wendy Ide – Page 12
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‘Peacock Lament’: Tokyo Review
A desperate man takes a job with a Colombo-based human trafficker in Sanjeewa Pushpakumara’s fourth feature
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‘Mountain Woman’: Tokyo Review
Takeshi Fukanaga’s third feature follows a shamed woman searching for peace in 18th century Japan
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‘And So I’m At A Loss’: Tokyo Review
Daisuke Miura adapts his own stage play about a 20-something Tokyo slacker
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‘Egoist’: Tokyo Review
A successful gay man navigates a new romance in Daishi Matsunaga’s satisfying character study
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‘Glorious Ashes’: Tokyo Review
Three women eke out a life in a Vietnamese fishing village in Bui Thac Chuyen’s Tokyo competition title
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‘by the window’: Tokyo Review
A man ponders what to do about his wife’s affair in Rikiya Imaizumi’s languid drama
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‘Manticore’: Tokyo Review
The fourth film from Spain’s Carlos Vermut takes its isolated protaganist into dark territory
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‘Fragments Of The Last Will’: Tokyo Review
Takahisa Zeze’s Tokyo opener is the true story of a Japanese soldier captured in a Siberian labour camp.
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‘Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio’: London Review
The director’s first animation, a stop-motion musical for Netflix, is impressively distinctive
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‘My Father’s Dragon’: London Review
Cartoon Saloon’s Nora Twomey adapts this charming animated adaptation of the 1948 children’s book
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‘Klokkenluider’: London Review
Actor Neil Maskell makes his directorial debut with a whistleblower drama set in Belgium
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‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’: London Review
The mistress and the gamekeeper meet again in this steamy Netflix adaptation of DH Lawrence’s classic romance
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‘White Dog’: Hamburg Review
Denis Menochet and Kacey Rohl lead this story of Romain Gary, Jean Seberg and a racist hound
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‘Tora’s Husband’: Busan Review
Rima Das’ intimate drama shows a family man’s life unravelling in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic
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‘Prisoner’s Daughter’: Toronto Review
Brian Cox stars as an ex-con while Kate Beckinsale is his disinterested daughter in Catherine Hardwicke’s Las Vegas-set drama
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‘What’s Love Got To Do With It?’: Toronto Review
Shekhar Kapur makes his return to the big screen with this Anglo-Asian romantic comedy
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‘Wildflower’: Toronto Review
The only child of intellectually disabled parents faces difficult decisions in this narratively conventional coming-of-age drama
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‘The Good Nurse’: Toronto Review
‘Superbly-acted’ thriller stars Eddie Redmayne and Jessica Chastain in Tobias Lindholm’s adaptation of a real-life case
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‘Baby Ruby’: Toronto Review
Noémie Merlant plays an instamum whose idealised life with husband Kit Harington starts to fall apart in Bess Wohl’s feature debut