All articles by Wendy Ide – Page 48
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'I Am Not A Witch': Cannes Review
An arresting debut from Rungano Nyoni is set in and around Zambia’s capital city Lusaka
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'Radiance': Cannes Review
Dir/scr: Naomi Kawase. Jap/Fr. 2017. 101 mins.Naomi Kawase uses the tentative connection between a partially-sighted photographer and a woman who writes film audio descriptions in this finespun exploration of beauty, impermanence and loss. Typically delicate and as gentle as a balm, the film’s well-intentioned earnestness will ...
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'The Intruder': Cannes Review
A social worker takes on the Italian mob in Leonardo Di Costanzo’s social drama
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'Out': Cannes Review
An unemployed factory worker travels from Slovakia to the Baltics to catch a big fish
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'The Day After': Cannes Review
Korea’s most prolific director delivers more of the same in his third film - so far - this year
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'Tehran Taboo': Cannes Review
Ali Soozandeh’s visually striking animation reveals a little-seen side to Tehran’s youth
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'A Man Of Integrity': Cannes Review
An Iranian goldfish farmer finds his principles under serious threat in this muted drama
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'Beauty And The Dogs': Cannes Review
Dir/scr: Kaouther Ben Hania. Tunisia/France/Sweden/Norway/Lebanon/Qatar/Switzerland. 2017. 100mins.An evening which starts with a carefree student party and selfies with friends descends into a Kafkaesque waking nightmare for 21-year-old Mariam (Mariam Al Ferjani). Loosely based on a real event, Kaouther Ben Hania’s gruelling drama collates vividly immediate fragments ...
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'Ava': Cannes Review
Critics Week title is a ‘hail of bullets’ drama involving a rebellious 13 year-old girl who is going blind
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'Sleepless': Review
Jamie Foxx makes a high-octane return in Swiss director Baran bo Odar’s bullet-strafed blitzkrieg about corrupt cops in Las Vegas
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'House Of Z': Tribeca Review
There’s no shortage of fashion drama to feed this documentary about couture’s former enfant terrible Zac Posen
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'A Suitable Girl': Tribeca Review
Dirs: Sarita Khurana, Smriti Mundhra. USA-India. 2017. 97 mins.The subject of Indian arranged marriages is a deceptively tricky one to dissect in a documentary, existing as it does at the point where Western cultural beliefs and Eastern traditions meet head to head. And while this triptych ...
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'The Divine Order': Tribeca Review
Marie Leuenberger plays a housewife turned activist protesting her right to vote in 1970s Switzerland
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'Holy Air': Tribeca Review
A Nazareth local schemes to sell bottled holy air to visiting pilgrims in this Israeli comedy
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'King Of Peking': Tribeca Review
Australian filmmaker Sam Voutas’ second Chinese-set feature tells of a father and son who team up to sell bootleg DVDs
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'Ice Mother': Tribeca Review
Late-life love and second chances form the crux of this warm, sensitive feature from Bohdan Slama
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'Mine': Review
After Armie Hammer’s marine steps on a landmine in the desert heat, he has to wait 52 long hours before help arrives
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'Life': Review
Ryan Reynolds and Jake Gyllenhaal form part of a ‘space smorgasbord for a snacking alien’ in the latest from Sweden’s Daniel Espinosa