All articles by Wendy Ide – Page 15
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‘Next Sohee’: Cannes Review
Critics’ Week comes to a close with July Jung’s muted drama about teen suicide inspired by real-life events
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‘Godland’: Cannes Review
A 19th century missionary is tested to his limits in Hlynur Pálmason’s striking Icelandic drama
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‘The Dam’: Cannes Review
Ali Cherri’s Directors’ Fortnight feature debut about a Sudanese brick-maker is a striking allegorical tale
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‘Decision To Leave’: Cannes Review
The blurred lines between police detective and suspect are at the heart of Park Chan-wook’s seductive neo-noir
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‘Feminist Riposte’: Cannes Review
Engaged, spirited documentary following a new wave of feminist activists across France
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‘Forever Young’: Cannes Review
A celebrated French theatre school in the 1980s is the setting for Valeria Bruni Tedeschi’s excitable drama
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‘Return To Seoul’: Cannes Review
Sony pick-up centres around a young adoptee who returns to Seoul to reconnect with her roots
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‘Everybody Loves Jeanne’: Cannes Review
A woman attempts to outrun her inner demons in this charming comedy from Céline Devaux
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‘Paris Memories’: Cannes Review
The survivor of a Parisian terrorist attack finds her life forever changed in Alice Winocour’s hopeful drama
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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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‘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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‘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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‘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 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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‘Jeong-sun’: Jeonju Review
Jeonju’s Korean competition prize winner is an intimate and understated exploration of cyberbullying and shame
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‘Geographies Of Solitude’: Jeonju Review
Jeonju prize-winner is a beguiling and poetic film set on an isolated strip of land in Canada’s far reaches
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‘A Human Position’: Jeonju Review
A soulful, pensive character drama about a young Norwegian journalist coming to terms with trauma
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‘Raydio’: Jeonju Review
A subdued Taiwanese drama about an estranged father and son searching for a connection
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‘Chaylla’: Visions du Reel Review
An extraordinary, intimate first feature about one woman’s struggle to free herself from domestic abuse