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‘Dandelion’s Odyssey’ review: Artistic animation takes a plant’s eye-view of the apocalypse
Dir: Momoko Seto. France/Belgium. 2025. 76 minutes
4 dandelion seeds – or ‘achenes’ to provide them their scientific title – embark on a outstanding journey...
‘Arco’ review: Natalie Portman produces appealing French time-travel animation
Dir: Ugo Bienvenu. France. 2025. 82mins
A boy in a rainbow go well with falls from the sky, forsaking him a looping ribbon of color. He...
‘The Richest Woman In The World’ review: Isabelle Huppert drama plays on a notorious real life L’Oréal heir
Dir: Thierry Klifa. France. 2025. 121mins
Isabelle Huppert is luxuriously reducing in The Richest Girl In The World. This household drama clearly impressed by L’Oreal...
‘Once Upon A Time In Gaza’ review: Satirical, resonant follow-up to ‘Gaza Mon Amour’
Dirs. Arab Nasser, Tarzan Nasser. France/Palestine/Germany/Portugal/Jordan//Qatar 2025. 90mins
Whereas the world sees day by day pictures of Gaza beneath siege, there's a notable dearth of...
‘Alpha’ review: Julia Ducournau's ‘Titane’ follow-up is set against a mysterious French plague
Dir/scr: Julie Ducornau. France. 2025. 128mins
Julie Ducornau is filled with surprises. Together with her first two options, Uncooked and Titane, she established herself as...
‘Imago’ review: Critics’ week doc looks at a Chechen enclave in Georgia
Dir: Déni Oumar Pitsaev. France/Belgium. 2025. 110mins
Chechen filmmaker Déni Oumar Pitsaev directs his personal quest to know his roots, come to phrases together with...
‘Little Amelie’ review: Life in 1960s Japan through the eyes of a Belgian toddler
Dirs/scr: Mailys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han. France. 2025. 76mins
The awakening consciousness of slightly Belgian lady born in Japan is recounted to charming and typically profound impact...
‘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...
‘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...
‘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...