All articles by Wendy Ide – Page 16
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‘Mother’: Munich Review
Testimonies of real life mothers are at the centre of Carolin Schmitz’s involving documentary-fiction hybrid
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‘No Dogs Or Italians Allowed’: Annecy Review
Alain Ughetto traces his family history in this charming, personal second feature animation
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‘Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman’: Annecy Review
Haruki Murakami’s short stories inspire an elegantly surreal directorial debut from composer Pierre Foldes
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‘Dounia And The Princess Of Aleppo’: Annecy Review
A young girl’s journey to find a new home provides the road map for this enchanting animated story
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‘The Sea Beast’: Annecy Review
Chris Williams delivers a dazzling triumph for Netflix with this ripping monster yarn
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‘Aurora’s Sunrise’: Annecy Review
The remarkable life of Armenian genocide survivor Aurora Mardiganian is turned into a gripping animation
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‘The Black Pharaoh, The Savage And The Princess’: Annecy Review
Legendary French animator Michel Ocelot returns with three stories that span different eras and locales
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‘Minions: The Rise Of Gru’: Annecy Review
The ‘Despicable Me’ supervillain receives an appropriately silly origin story, joined by his slapstick friends
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‘Nayola’: Annecy Review
Stunning feature animation debut depicts the horror of war from a female perspective
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‘My Love Affair With Marriage’: Annecy Review
Signe Baumane’s entertaining second feature is a loosely autobiographical tale of a woman’s history of failed relationships
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‘Aisha’: Tribeca Review
Letitia Wright and Josh O’Connor excel in Frank Berry’s moving story about an asylum seeker in Ireland’s direct provision system
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‘Mother And Son’: Cannes Review
A sensitive and complex triptych of a migrant family from the Ivory Coast arriving in 1980s France
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‘The Beasts’: Cannes Review
Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s psychological thriller about outsiders in a Galician village is ’a brooding, muscular piece of filmmaking’
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‘Close’: Cannes Review
Lukas Dhont’s |Grand Prix-winning picture is an intimate, quietly devastating study of childhood friendship between two boys
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‘The Vagabonds’: Cannes Review
Doroteya Droumeva’s feature debut follows a woman searching for relationships with younger men in Berlin
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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