Polanski doesn’t seem interested to push his film past the second gear, but it is a stately and handsome work about the Dreyfus Affair.
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Officer and a Spy, An (2019)
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Tag / 2019
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Liberte (2019)
If you enjoy slow arthouse cinema that is also extremely perverse, then this new tableau-styled film by Albert Serra about libertinism in 18th century France may be your cup of tea.
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Swallows of Kabul, The (2019)
A painterly and potent animation that tackles the terrible oppression faced by women in Taliban-occupied Kabul in the late 1990s.
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Little Women (2019)
Backed by superb performances, particularly from Saoirse Ronan and Florence Pugh, Greta Gerwig’s screen adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel is refreshing, poignant and utterly compelling.
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Painted Bird, The (2019)
Not for the faint-hearted, this highly-disturbing and extremely grim film about a boy’s experience of Eastern Europe during WWII packs a powerful, almost surreal punch.
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Marriage Story (2019)
Led by two quite effective leads in Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson, Baumbach’s film about the perils of marriage and the pain of divorce has moments to savour.
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Irishman, The (2019)
Scorsese delivers another career-high mob film that is quite unlike what he has done before in what could be a strong Best Picture contender.
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Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains (2019)
A poetic and quietly-resonating feature debut that is slow but never meandering, plus it features one of the year’s most extraordinary tracking shots.
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Synonyms (2019)
At times frustrating to watch, this unorthodox work about national identity will impress and alienate in equal measure.
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Vitalina Varela (2019)
Master of light and shadow, Pedro Costa returns with another visually-hypnotic elegy about the disenfranchised and their unbearable solitude.
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