Vardaโs Golden Lion winner is a bleak exploration of a young female drifterโs (Sandrine Bonnaire in an extraordinary performance) unapologetic defiance of the personal and social obligations that seek to tie down her free self.
Delonโs star-making turn draws us into a tricky narrative about an even trickier trickster, as themes of impersonation and immorality are explored in this elegant adaptation of Patricia Highsmithโs โThe Talented Mr. Ripley’.ย
Controversies aside, Audiard once again tackles admirably something outside of his comfort zone as his unorthodox musical thriller exudes the necessary vitality it needs to tell the story about a Mexican cartel boss who desires to transition into a woman and lead a new life.ย
Complex, abstract and utterly existential, Resnaisโ first feature in colour deals with the past, present and future as battlegrounds of half-truths, and edited in a fragmented โshards-likeโ style, as a womanโs ex-lover pays her a visit.ย
A textbook example of how to produce a handsome adaptation of an iconic novel, Polanski fashions a naturalistic if elegiac tale featuring an excellent Nastassja Kinski in a breakthrough performance.ย
Some centuries-old Beninese treasures are returned by France, sparking debate over its neocolonial political posturing sublimating as cultural diplomacy as Diopโs quaint Berlinale Golden Bear-winning documentary highlights the dissonances inherent in this โhomecomingโ.
Far from the kind of erotica that masquerades as political art, Terayamaโs largely uninteresting cult oddity featuring Klaus Kinski is an absurd tale of sadomasochism as a white man forces his mistress to become a prostitute to test her deep love for him.
Containing the hallmarks of great sci-fi fantasy movies, this enthralling but underseen animation from the โFantastic Planetโ director, with art stylings from Mลbius, gives us intergalactic, mind-bending travel, as an urgent rescue crew attempts to reach a boy stranded on a hostile planet.
A beautifully animated French drama that focuses on the nuts and bolts of mountain scaling as a Japanese photojournalist hopes to find historical and existential clarity about the exploits of several mountain climbers.
Visually stunning, contemplative and disruptive, Denisโ brilliant take on toxic masculinityโfor men, and by menโrevolves around one French Foreign Legion sergeantโs attraction and repulsion towards a new recruit.
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