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‘A Private Life’ review: Rebecca Zlotowski directs Jodie Foster in her first French-speaking lead
Dir: Rebecca Zlotowski. France. 2025. 105mins
One among a number of pleasures to be gleaned from Rebecca Zlotowski’s odd, uneven, likeable whodunnit is seeing Jodie...
‘Fuori’ review: Mario Martone, Valeria Golino zoom in on ‘Art Of Joy’ author Goliarda Sapienza
Dir: Mario Martone. Italy/France. 2025. 115mins
Fuori is a typically participating, typically self-indulgent story of an Italian feminine author’s unorthodox journey in the direction of...
‘Militantropos’ review: The invasion of Ukraine through the prism of everyday life
Dirs: Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorlova, Simon Mozgovyi. Ukraine/Austria/France. 2025. 111mins
On a regular basis life in Ukraine is the topic of the documentary Militantropos, which observes...
‘The Disappearance Of Josef Mengele’ review: Kirill Serebrennikov’s drama tracks post-War life of the SS ‘Angel of Death’
Dir. Kirill Serebrennikov. France/Germany 2025. 136mins
Josef Mengele was the doctor and SS officer whose horrific experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz earned him the sobriquet...
‘Kika’ review: A grieving woman turns to sex work in Belgian Critics’ Week debut
Dir: Alexe Poukine. Belgium, France. 2025 110mins
Necessity is the mom of reinvention in Kika. The primary feature-length narrative from French-born, Belgium-based filmmaker Alexe Puokine follows...
‘Tell Her I Love Her’ review: Romane Bohringer confronts her own past in convoluted hybrid feature
Dir: Romane Bohringer. France. 2025. 92 minutes
Motherhood and reminiscence intertwine in Romane Bohringer’s complicated, if at occasions convoluted, docufiction hybrid. Initially meant as a...
‘The Girls We Want’ review: Inner-city kids fumble in Marseille-set debut
Dir: Prïncia Automotive. France. 2025. 93mins
A gaggle of children from inner-city Marseille is thrown into disarray when somebody returns after an extended absence within...
‘Romeria’ review: Carla Simon’s third, semi-autobiographical feature is ‘pensive and rather lovely’
Dir/scr: Carla Simon. Spain/Germany. 2025. 112 minutes.
Orphaned at a younger age and raised by her mom’s household in Barcelona, 18-year-old Marina (Llucia Garcia) has...
Lebanon’s Abbout Productions to be honoured at Locarno Film Festival
Beirut-based Abbout Productions, led by Georges Schoucair and Myriam Sassine, will obtain Locarno Movie Competition’s producing prize, the Raimondo Rezzonico Award, at its upcoming...
‘Sentimental Value’ review: Renate Reinsve and Joachim Trier reunite for moving family drama
Dir: Joachim Trier. Norway/France/Denmark/Germany. 2025. 135mins
An actress daughter and her director father discover their household roles in Sentimental Worth, the delicate sixth function from...