Sight & Sound articles
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Lux Æterna first look: Gaspar Noé builds a meta-movie bonfire
In Noé’s blitziest blitzkrieg yet, Beatrice Dallé and Charlotte Gainsbourg play an embattled film director and her star preparing a witch-burning scene. Then Noé unleashes a proper meltdown, writes Giovanni Marchini Camia.
Thursday 23 May 2019 -
Parasite first look: Bong Joon-ho builds a wicked bridge over the class divide
Bong Joon-ho fuses home-invasion thrills with a searing critique of social inequality in this rip-roaring con-family comedy, says Isabel Stevens.
Thursday 23 May 2019 -
Freely interweaving his own inventions with myths and legends from Hollywood’s late golden years, Quentin Tarantino delivers one of the most exuberantly sharp-witted meta-movies we’ve seen – until, until… Jessica Kiang minds her spoilers.
Wednesday 22 May 2019 -
From the Magazine
Diego Maradona review: Asif Kapadia brings us a touch of god
The team behind Amy and Senna brings their own sure hands to this compendious bird’s-eye documentary portrait of the Argentina and Napoli football legend, writes Lou Thomas.
Wednesday 22 May 2019 -
Young Ahmed review: the Dardennes ponder the riddle of radicalisation
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne aren’t on their surest ground with this depiction of a young man swayed by Islamic fundamentalism; but as minor works go, it still packs some surprises, writes Caspar Salmon.
Wednesday 22 May 2019 -
The Cordillera of Dreams first look: a portrait of Chile carved in rock
In this poetic documentary, filmmaker Patricio Guzmán mediates on the past and future of his home country via the mountains that close it off from the rest of the world, writes Jonathan Romney.
Wednesday 22 May 2019 -
Portrait of a Lady on Fire first look: Céline Sciamma conjures an oasis of female freedom
Sciamma’s rapturous costume romance finds a halcyon space without men for its artist and her subject to look and love their own way, says Isabel Stevens.
Tuesday 21 May 2019 -
Beanpole first look: life, and beauty, persist after the siege of Leningrad
Kantemir Balagov’s extraordinary second film depicts the febrile friendship of two nursing women in a WWII Soviet hospice with impressive rigour and poetry, writes Caspar Salmon.
Tuesday 21 May 2019 -
Les Misérables first look: a tense tour of a Paris commune still in crisis
The violently divided society of Victor Hugo’s novel persists in local Ladj Ly’s scintillating feature debut, which follows a police investigation into a riot in a Montfermeil banlieu, writes Katherine McLaughlin.
Tuesday 21 May 2019 -
Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego: “Birds of Passage flips the genre on its head”
The co-directors of the sensational Colombian drug-trafficking drama talk to Kaleem Aftab about capitalism, cultural sensitivity, Sergio Leone and the significance of colour.
Tuesday 21 May 2019
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