This black-and-white Polish Oscar winner is shot with a spare, understated elegance, but sometimes at the expense of narrative depth.
Category / Directors to Watch
Cold War (2018)
Well-crafted with dazzling black-and-white cinematography, and certainly a film to appreciate, but it is emotionally vacuous.
Favourite, The (2018)
By turns visually ravishing and psychologically perverse, this salacious and morbidly hilarious period drama strangely doesn’t quite amount to anything significant.
Happy as Lazzaro (2018)
Rohrwacher is surely one of the most exciting directors working today, delivering a truly mesmerising and thematically-dense work of art.
Wonders, The (2014)
An unexpectedly refreshing picture about an unusual family of beekeepers told in a quasi-docudrama fashion.
Killing of a Sacred Deer, The (2017)
Absurdist cinema taken to the extreme, Greek provocateur Yorgos Lanthimos delivers a harrowing work that is clinical in execution in more ways than one.
Lobster, The (2015)
Bizarre is the word from the latest by Lanthimos, whose uneven English-language debut intrigues and wanes in what is a morbid if deadpan comedy about loneliness and companionship.
