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Max Richter’s and Yulia Mahr’s Sounds and Visions at the Barbican
Music and images, tunes and pictures, sounds and visions go hand in hand in the wonderful weekend festival…
By Cristiana Ferrautireview
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Jeune Femme (Montparnasse Bienvenue)
Enjoyment of this film rests on how much you warm to its lead Laetitia Dosch, who plays the…
By Joseph Owen
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Filmworker
The story of Leon Vitali is difficult to pinpoint. On the one hand, he lived a sad life…
By Joseph Owen
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Pope Francis: A Man of His Word
This feels like the film Wim Wenders wanted to make. That the Vatican commissioned it appears incidental, as the director…
By Joseph Owen
Cannes
Sink or Swim (Le Grand Bain)
Gilles Lellouche's ensemble comedy is well-made, irritating and French. A disparate group of sad, middle-aged men in the thrall of mid-life…
By Joseph Owen
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Shoplifters (Manbiki Kazoku)
About stolen belongings and a returned sense of belonging, this masterfully crafted, humane film improves on Hirokazu Kore-eda’s last study of parenting, After the Storm. Family…
By Joseph Owen
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Leave No Trace
We think of hunter-gatherers as an image of our distant human past, but it is this very existence…
By Daniel Amir
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Happy as Lazzaro (Lazzaro Felice)
Happy as Lazzaro has a timeless quality. It’s effortlessly intelligent without the pretension – a difficult effect to…
By Zoe Tamara
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Climax
Gaspar Noé seems to have a penchant for shocking audiences with his trippy films that bring us into…
By Zoe Tamara
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Murder Me, Monster (Muere, Monstruo, Muere)
A strange and sinister force has taken up residence in a remote Argentine village deep in the Andes.…
By Zoe Tamara