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‘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...
‘Nino’ review: A cancer diagnosis prompts a weekend of reckoning in tender French drama
Dir/scr: Pauline Loques. France. 2025. 97mins
A bombshell medical prognosis prompts a younger man to replicate on life’s valuable presents in Nino, Pauline Loques’ delicately-handled debut...
‘Heads Or Tails?’ review: John C. Reilly is Buffalo Bill in this ‘rambunctious’ spaghetti Western
Dir: Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis. Italy/USA. 2025. 107mins
Within the late nineteenth century, American showman ‘Buffalo Invoice’ Cody (John C. Reilly, bewhiskered and...
‘Yes’ review: Nadav Lapid’s post-October 7 satire is loudly divisive
Dir: Nadav Lapid. France/Israel/Cyprus/Germany. 2025. 149mins
The October 7 assaults by Hamas, and Israel’s persevering with marketing campaign of retaliation in Gaza: most film-makers would...
‘Caravan’ review: A mother and her disabled son take to the road in Italy
Dir: Zuzana Kirchnerova. Czech Republic/Slovakia/Italy. 2025. 103 minutes
The burden of care is all-consuming in Caravan. Zuzana Kirchnerova’s achieved debut function charts the bond between a weary...
Yorgos Zois’ ‘Arcadia’ triumphs at Greece’s Iris Awards
Yorgos Zois’ Arcadia received all three essential prizes on the Hellenic Movie Academy’s Iris Awards, together with finest movie, director and screenplay.
The Greek-Bulgarian co-production,...
‘Colours Of Time’ review: Cédric Klapisch delivers a crowdpleasing comedy of France past and present
Dir. Cédric Klapisch. France 2025. 124 minutes
Previous, current and a beneficiant serving to of poetic license all merge entertainingly in Cédric Klapisch’s elegant, if...
‘Young Mothers’ review: Five teenage mothers form the nucleus of the Dardenne brothers’ latest
Dir/scr: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne France. 2025. 105mins
In a residential shelter for younger moms in Liege, Belgium, 5 women grapple with the challenges of parenting a new...
Alexander Payne to be honoured by Locarno Film Festival
The Locarno Movie Pageant is ready to honour filmmaker Alexander Payne with the Pardo d’Onore, its honorary award for excellent achievement in cinema.
Payne will...
‘13 Days 13 Nights’ review: Roschdy Zem stars in real-life Kabul extraction thriller
Dir: Martin Bourboulon. 2025. France. 111mins.
French director Martin Bourboulon follows up his pair of 2023 Three Musketeers movies with 13 Days 13 Nights, a tense...