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‘Mirrors No. 3’ review: Rich study of trauma and grief unfolds in the German countryside
Dir/scr: Christian Petzold. Germany. 2025. 86 minutes.
Having survived a country-road automotive crash that killed her boyfriend, Berlin music scholar Laura (Paula Beer) is bodily...
‘Love Letters’ review: Drama charts lesbian couple’s rocky road to parenthood in 2014 France
Dir/scr: Alice Douard. France. 2025. 97mins
The pressures on a French lesbian couple anticipating their first youngster lie on the coronary heart of Love Letters....
‘I Only Rest In The Storm’ review: Pedro Pinho visits neo-colonialism in Guinea-Bissau
Dir: Pedro Pinho. Portugal/France/Brazil/Romania. 2025. 211mins
A Portuguese environmental engineer tries to navigate the difficult waters of being a white man in West Africa in I...
‘Nouvelle Vague’ review: Richard Linklater dramatises the making of Godard’s ‘Breathless’
Dir: Richard Linklater. France. 2025. 105mins
Working virtually fully in French, Richard Linklater crafts a black-and-white movie shot in Academy Ratio across the making of...
‘No One Will Know’ review: A Parisian bar plays host to a looping crime thriller
Dir: Vincent Maël Cardona. France. 2025. 115mins
As daybreak breaks, a combination of regulars and strangers wash up in a down-at-heel bar known as Le...
‘Pillion’ review: Alexander Skarsgard and Harry Melling star in frank British debut
Dir/scr: Harry Lighton. UK. 2025. 106mins
The commuter city of Bromley, 10 miles from the centre of London, might not appear to be the obvious...
‘A Magnificent Life’ review: Sylvain Chomet animates the life of Marcel Pagnol
Dir/scr: Sylvain Chomet. France/Luxembourg/Belgium 2025. 90mins
The playwright, writer and film-maker Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974) clearly did have A Magnificent Life – however you think about it will need to have...
‘My Father’s Shadow’ review: Sope Dirisu stars in this electric debut set in 1990s Nigeria
Dir: Akinola Davies Jr. UK/Nigeria. 2025. 95mins
Nigeria, 1993. A vital election has simply run, and the persons are hopeful of a win for Social...
‘The Love That Remains’ review: Follow-up to ‘Godland’ is a tender breakup drama
Dir/scr: Hlynur Palmason. Iceland/Denmark/France/Finland/Sweden. 2025. 109mins.
There’s some extent someplace in the direction of the tip of a wedding breakup when the sense of what...
‘Magellan’ review: Lav Diaz directs Gael Garcia Bernal as the titular Portuguese explorer
Dir. Lav Diaz. Portugal/Spain/France/Philippines/Taiwan 2025. 160mins
The illusions and indignities of European colonial historical past have been amply mapped in cinema from Aguirre to Zama. Magellan, by Flilipino star auteur Lav...