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Deerskin first look: Jean Dujardin seeks one jacket to rule them all
Quentin Dupieux pulls off an unlikely but deftly oddball comedy about a man over the edge, and determined to document it, says Caspar Salmon.
Friday 17 May 2019 -
Sorry We Missed You first look: Ken Loach delivers a stirring drama on the gig economy
Loach does what he does best in this persuasive, affecting drama about a couple ground down by zero-hours contracts, where humour and honesty keep sentimentality at bay, says Geoff Andrew.
Friday 17 May 2019 -
Pain and Glory first look: Pedro Almodóvar’s self-portrait of the artist as addict
The director is in introspective mood with his latest, as Antonio Banderas plays a film director at the end of his career looking back on his life with the help of the occasional high, writes Nick James.
Friday 17 May 2019 -
From the Magazine
Birds of Passage review: finding common ground in gang war and blood feuds
Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego’s drug-trafficking drama is a fascinating hybrid of genre, anthropology and magical realism, as well as one of the best crime movies of recent years, writes Demetrios Matheou.
Friday 17 May 2019 -
From the Magazine
Rocketman review: an out and proud Elton John musical biopic
Dexter Fletcher’s take on the rock ’n’ roll history of Reginald Dwight is kinetic, poignant and, above all, refreshingly open and celebratory about its gay protagonist’s sex life, writes Rebecca Harrison.
Friday 17 May 2019 -
Atlantics first look: Mati Diop’s paranormal take on the migration crisis
The Senegalese filmmaker’s feature debut blends the supernatural into an uneven but tenderly ethereal tale of injustice, exodus and abandonment in a dystopian modern-day Dakar, writes Beth Webb.
Friday 17 May 2019 -
Bull first look: a bucking portrait of a rodeoing odd couple
Cannes short film winner Annie Silvestein impresses with her feature debut, an understated but potent portrait of Amber Havard’s teen tearaway and Rob Morgan’s worn rodeo star on the outer fringes of Houston, Texas, writes Rebecca Harrison.
Thursday 16 May 2019 -
Directing Directors’ Fortnight: Paolo Moretti on his first time programming Cannes’s Quinzaine
In his first year in the role, the seventh artistic director of the festival’s parallel indie programme discusses the pressures of continuity, change and gender parity with James Lattimer.
Thursday 16 May 2019 -
From the Magazine
Dr Strangelove archive review: a mirthful Machiavellian nightmare
Now on re-release, Stanley Kubrick’s nuclear caper is revered as a comedy classic. Back when it first emerged, Tom Milne found both fear and hope in the film’s all too topical treatment of global destruction.
Thursday 16 May 2019 -
The Dead Don’t Die first look: Jarmuschians assemble for the ultimate dead-end comedy
Jim Jarmusch’s maximal stock company overruns the American heartland for an end-times zombie genre burlesque that finds nowhere to go, says Michael Leader.
Wednesday 15 May 2019
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