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An Easy Girl ( Une Fille Facile)

There’s something disconcerting about watching a film that’s set where you’re watching it. Rebecca Zlotowski’s An Easy Girl (Une Fille…

By Sam Gray
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Litigante

The second feature film by Columbian filmmaker Franco Lolli, Litigante follows single mother Silvia (Carolina Sanin) as she…

By Andrew Murray
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Young Ahmed (Le jeune Ahmed)

Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's latest naturalistic drama caught a few raised eyebrows in the lead-up to Cannes. It’s…

By Sam Gray
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A Hidden Life

Terrence Malick sees the modern world as a product of secularised theology. Even if the state co-opts religious…

By Joseph Owen
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Diego Maradona

Diego Maradona embodies the footballer as double: saint and sinner, hero and villain, God and the unholy. Asif…

By Joseph Owen
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Lux Æterna

It’s a bit embarrassing to identify as a fan of Gaspar Noé. An enfant terrible who emerged from…

By Sam Gray
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The Whistlers (La Gomera)

Kicking off with Iggy Pop’s The Passenger and descending into a Cold War-style espionage thriller, in which cop Cristi…

By Sam Gray
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Too Old to Die Young

Nicolas Winding Refn likes things ... slow. He likes ... to take ... pregnant ... pauses ... before…

By Sam Gray