Cannes
The Spy Gone North (Gongjak)
“Based on real events” – hardly are those words out when a vast film of folly and tedium…
By Joseph Owenreview
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The Angel (El Ángel)
Life is meant to be enjoyed, no? So why not do whatever we want, whenever we want, and…
By Zoe Tamara
Cannes
Treat Me Like Fire (Joueurs)
Director Marie Monge wastes no time with exposition: when the intriguingly mysterious Abel (Tahar Rahim) appears at the…
By Zoe Tamara
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Ash Is Purest White (Jiang Hu Er Nv)
Jia Zhang-Ke's Ash is Purest White wrong-foots us at every step. The central mob romance is maintained and…
By Joseph Owen
Cannes
Image Book (Le Livre d’Image)
Jean-Luc Godard's Le Livre d'Image is an undergraduate thesis run amok: no referencing, no clear argument, emphatic aphoristic…
By Joseph Owen
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My Favourite Fabric (Mon Tissu Préféré)
Damascus 2011: the conflict in Syria is just in its beginning stages. Although it is not yet severe,…
By Zoe Tamara
Play
Describe the Night at Hampstead Theatre
The concept of truth gets picked apart in this creative, yet ultimately disappointing show set over a century…
By Jim Compton-Hall
Cannes
Arctic
Mads Mikkelsen is stern machismo personified in Joe Penna's Arctic, a punishing Sisyphean struggle across the icy tundra,…
By Joseph Owen
Cannes
Cold War (Zimna Wojna)
This is an elegant, elliptical study of love and an earnest, if unintentional satire of historical metaphor. Pawel…
By Joseph Owen
Movie
A Wizard’s Tale
There’s a worthwhile film to found somewhere in A Wizard’s Tale; deep down below its lazy animation, nightmare-inducing character models…
By Andrew Murray