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‘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...
‘Renoir’ review: A grieving 11-year-old retreats into fantasy in 1980s Tokyo
Dir/scr: Chie Hayakawa. Japan/France/Singapore/Philippines/Indonesia/Qatar. 2025. 120mins
Together with her father sinking into the ultimate phases of terminal most cancers and her mom frazzled by stress,...
‘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...
‘Dangerous Animals’ review: Sean Byrne’s Australian sharksploitation lacks real bite
Dir: Sean Byrne. Australia. 2025. 98mins
The azure waters off Australia’s Gold Coast conceal a darkish secret in Harmful Animals; and it’s not simply the...
‘Die, My Love’ review: Jennifer Lawrence sparks Lynne Ramsay’s portrait of a troubled marriage
Dir: Lynne Ramsay. Canada. 2025. 119mins
As a brand new mom unravelling in terrifying style, Jennifer Lawrence is the match that lights Lynne Ramsay’s gripping,...
‘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...
‘Orwell: 2+2=5’ review: Raoul Peck links the writer, thinker and activist to the Orwellian present day
Dir. Raoul Peck. US/France 2025. 119mins
The British author Eric Blair, higher often known as George Orwell (1903-1950), devised the components ‘2+2=5’ to encapsulate the methods...
First Iraqi film to play at Cannes wins Directors’ Fortnight audience award
The President’s Cake, the primary Iraqi movie to play at Cannes Movie Pageant, has gained the Individuals’s Alternative award within the impartial Administrators’ Fortnight...
‘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...