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‘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...
‘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 Six Billion Dollar Man’ review: Julian Assange is the ultimate whistleblower in Eugene Jarecki doc
Dir: Eugene Jarecki. US/Germany/France. 2025. 123mins
Is Julian Assange a crusading impartial journalist or a harmful menace to nationwide safety? The Six Billion Greenback Man...
‘Bono: Stories Of Surrender’ review: U2’s Bono looks back in energetic solo show
Dir: Andrew Dominik. US/Italy/Eire. 2025. 87mins
To mark the 2022 publication of his memoir ’Give up: 40 Songs’ , U2 frontman Bono launched into a...
‘The Wave’ review: Sebastian Lelio's ambitious feminist musical is set to Chile’s university strikes
Dir: Sebastian Lelio. Chile. 129 minutes.
Feminist pleasure and anger pour out in a riot of tune and dance numbers in Sebastian Lelio’s tribute to...
‘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...
‘Mama’ review: A Polish domestic worker has a difficult return home from Israel
Dir/scr: Or Sinai. Israel/Poland/Italy. 2025. 91mins
The emotional complexities of life as a live-in home employee are dropped at the fore in Or Sinai’s character-driven...