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  • Son of Saul – first look

    László Nemes’s drama of a Sonderkommando’s private grief amidst public horror demurs from the usual spectacles of Holocaust – and ratchets up the aural impressions, says Nick James.


    Thursday 14 May 2015

    Reviews and recommendations

  • Our Little Sister – first look

    Koreeda Hirokazu follows up Like Father, Like Son with an episodic saga of four sisters and hymn to Arcadian virtues, reports Nick Roddick from its Cannes premiere.


    Thursday 14 May 2015

    Reviews and recommendations

  • Standing Tall – first look

    The festival gets serious with a social-realist slice of juvenile delinquency for its opening night, says Geoff Andrew.


    Wednesday 13 May 2015

    Reviews and recommendations

  • Cannes 2015: Where’s Raaooouuuul?

    Or is that Raúúúúúúúúúl? At any rate, this strange, recurring howl is less an emblem of Cannes’ clubbiness than of its all-bewildering embrace, says Charlie Lyne.

    Charlie Shackleton
    Wednesday 13 May 2015

    Festivals

  • From the Magazine

    Cannes 2015: Opening gambits

    The august regulars are still in evidence, but this year’s Cannes line-up is rather less predictable – and younger – than in recent years, says Isabel Stevens.


    Wednesday 13 May 2015

    Festivals

  • Review: From What is Before

    Modern tyranny comes to a not-so-long-ago Philippine village in Lav Diaz’s latest extensive historical tragedy, now making its UK premiere on subscription VoD, says Adam Nayman.

    Adam Nayman
    Tuesday 12 May 2015

    Bytes

  • From the Magazine

    Southern Gothic

    Nick Pinkerton is your guide through the cinema of the Gothic tradition from the American South – films steeped in dark family secrets, lost loves and the ghosts of slavery, set in crumbling ante-bellum mansions, populated by exiles and eccentrics and coloured by the prospect of macabre violence.


    Sunday 10 May 2015

    Deep Focus

  • Archives online: Bedridden belles

    These two alfresco minutes from an oddball 1935 home movie in the University of South Carolina’s archives presage Southern Gothic’s long lineage of female immobility, says Thirza Wakefield.


    Sunday 10 May 2015

    Bytes

  • From the Magazine

    Girlhood review

    Céline Sciamma’s banlieu story makes thrillingly palpable the liberating potential of girl power – and shows us the social pressures that aim to extinguish it, says Sue Harris.

    Sue Harris
    Friday 8 May 2015

    Reviews and recommendations

  • From the Magazine

    Film of the week: Far from the Madding Crowd

    Fresh, deft and sensitive, Thomas Vinterberg’s new adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s rural romance is a cut above, says Thirza Wakefield.


    Friday 1 May 2015

    Reviews and recommendations

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