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Ak-Nyeo: The Villainess

The first scene of this film gives a relatively good indication of what’s to come. We are immediately…

By Joseph Owen
Cannes

L’Intrusa (The Intruder)

Director Leonardo Di Constanzo offers Naples as the setting for this dose of admirable and clinical social realism.…

By Joseph Owen
Cannes

Cuori Puri (Pure Hearts)

Roberto De Paolis’s debut feature is an engaging tale of teenage abstinence and sexual attraction, held together by…

By Joseph Owen
Cannes

Rodin

Jacques Doillon’s Rodin is the first outright clunker of Cannes, a turgid embarrassment of a biopic that even…

By Sam Gray
Cannes

The Beguiled

Sofia Coppola has brought to Cannes a confident, simmering picture of sexual tension and anticipated violence. Not as…

By Joseph Owen
Cannes

Geu-Hu (The Day After)

Drunks are no more tedious and irritating than when a person is practising sobriety, and in Hong Sang-soo’s latest…

By Joseph Owen
Cannes

Top of the Lake: China Girl

Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake is back, a powerfully feminist murder mystery that’s as strange as it…

By Sam Gray
Movie

Baywatch

There is not much more to say about Baywatch other than the fact it is a film about…

By Manisha Sondhi
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KT Tunstall at the Barbican

KT Tunstall’s concert gave us a perfect ending to what she called a “glorious London day”. After the…

By Olivia Cal