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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...
‘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...
‘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...
Natalie Portman-produced ‘Arco’ wins Cristal top prize at Annecy 2025
Ugo Bienvenu’s French function Arco received the Cristal award for greatest function movie on the 2025 Annecy Worldwide Animation Movie Competition.
Produced by Felix de...
‘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...
‘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...
‘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...
‘Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk’ review: Gaza documentary is a poignant final testimony
Dir: Sepideh Farsi. France/Palestine/Iran. 2025. 110mins
This celebration of resilience was remodeled right into a poignant final testimony by the dying of Gaza resident and...
‘The Girl In The Snow’ review: Louise Hemon turns to drama with a story from her own family’s past
Dir: Louise Hemon. France. 2025. 96mins
There's nothing extra harmful than an informed, unbiased lady in Louise Hemon’s atmospheric winter’s story. Impressed by parts of...