Movies
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Living Twice, Dying Thrice – first-look review
Surely the first Iranian film to feature on its soundtrack ‘Darkest Light’ by Lafayette Afro Rock Band – aka the saxophone…
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Eagles of the Republic review – a glossy portrait…
From films such as István Szabó’s 1981 Mephisto to Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Veronika Voss from 1982, we all know that…
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Hen review – a strange, uniquely compelling film
The first image of György Pálfi’s Hen – an extended close-up on a chicken’s cloaca as she lays an egg – might take…
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Red Rocks – first-look review
There was a time, in the ’90s and early ’00s, when watching a film by French filmmaker Bruno Dumont involved getting to…
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A Man of His Time – first-look review
This is a film which argues that the notion of patriotism and political pride can only ever lead to personal ruin,…
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Summer Drift – first-look review
God forbid a woman have hobbies: What suspense there is in Summer Drift, a charming French-language Swiss hybrid doc, comes from whether…
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Viva Carmen – first-look review
It seems unlikely that many kids will warm to this visually sunny though tonally downbeat animated rendering of Bizet’s classic…
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Titanic Ocean – first-look review
At an elite Japanese boarding school, for a certain price, young women can become the impossible. They clamour for places at…
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I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning – first-look…
In the UK since 1981, over 2.8 million social housing properties have been lost through privatisation and demolition. Every election…
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I’ll Be Gone In June – first-look review
Rye bread cocooned in clingfilm and a jar of monstrous pickles are the gifts Brandenburg exchange student Franny bestows upon her…
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