An enjoyable sophomore rom-com from Triet about ‘courtrooms and bedrooms’ as a lawyer’s personal life becomes murkily entwined with her professional exploits.
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An enjoyable sophomore rom-com from Triet about ‘courtrooms and bedrooms’ as a lawyer’s personal life becomes murkily entwined with her professional exploits.
The unresolved childhood grief of losing one’s mother is given a quiet, sentimental treatment by Bellocchio whose film is polished enough though it falls short of being truly insightful.
Diop’s exceptional observational documentary about a French GP whose clinic is dedicated to serving refugees has tremendous emotional power, alongside its sobering insights on the vulnerability of the human condition.
An effortless if restrained effort by Mungiu that compellingly captures the state of Romanian society through one father’s series of moral dilemmas.
A filthy rich, cold-hearted and adulterous man hopes that his melancholia-stricken wife will recover as Cote’s intriguing work asks what it means to search one’s own soul.
French New Wave icon Jean-Pierre Leaud lies bedridden for two hours in Albert Serra’s exquisite, slow-burning 18th-century take on the agonising final days of the famous Sun King, shot with such a high fidelity to history that one might mistake it for documentary authenticity.
One of Marvel’s most visually fascinating movies to date, but certainly not one (or two) of their finest hours.
An essential African documentary about the brutality of Habre’s regime as recalled by Chadian survivors seeking justice and closure from the unimaginable trauma that they continue to suffer decades after.
Kuosmanen’s debut feature, shot in poetic black-and-white, is a nuanced romance film masquerading as a boxing movie.
To’s odd anti-action structural experiment takes too long to build up a self-contained story set in a hospital ward as doctors, cops and criminals try to outwit one another psychologically, that when the action comes, it feels like a stylistic distraction.