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‘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...
‘Homebound’ review: Neeraj Ghaywan’s empathetic Indian drama is backed by EP Martin Scorsese
Dir/scr: Neeraj Ghaywan. India. 2025. 117mins.
Does being homebound point out remaining the place one is, or does it recommend travelling again to at least...
‘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...
Jafar Panahi’s Cannes-winner ‘It Was Just An Accident’ scoops Sydney Film Prize
Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi has gained the highest award on the 72nd Sydney Movie Competition with It Was Simply An Accident, three weeks after...
‘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...
‘The History Of Sound’ review: Josh O’Connor and Paul Mescal are clandestine lovers in US-set period drama
Dir: Oliver Hermanus. USA, UK. 2025.127mins
Invented by Thomas Edison, the wax cylinder was the dominant recording expertise within the first 20 years of the...
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...
‘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...