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Girl friends on film: the rare case of lifelike female friendships on the big screen
While male ‘buddy’ movies are a genre to themselves, films about women’s relationships are remarkable for their scarcity – to say nothing of those that dare to depict the bonds of female kinship in the round, writes Hannah McGill.
Monday 5 March 2018 -
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Darkest Hour review: Gary Oldman convinces as Winston Churchill
Joe Wright’s film takes us through three gruelling weeks during WWII, and with an impressive ensemble cast around the PM, it should be a triumph, but an absurd trip on the tube undermines the whole endeavour, writes Philip Kemp.
Monday 5 March 2018 -
Hard Paint (Tinta Bruta) review: dark days and neon nights on Porto Alegre’s wild side
A potential LGBTQ breakout hit, Filipe Matzembacher and Marcio Reolon’s second feature is an empathetic, erotic portrait of a young queer Brazilian leading a double life, writes Paul O’Callaghan.
Sunday 4 March 2018 -
Maria Saakyan obituary: young visionary who reinvigorated Armenian cinema
So Mayer remembers the filmmaker who drew international praise for her poetic debut feature The Lighthouse, and went on to revolutionise her national film industry.
Friday 2 March 2018 -
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Film of the week: A Fantastic Woman, Sebastián Lelio’s heartfelt tale of emotional survival
Daniela Vega gives a luminous performance as the enigmatic transgender heroine of the Chilean director’s powerful fifth feature, writes Maria Delgado.
Friday 2 March 2018 -
Lewis Gilbert obituary: director who entertained Britain for decades
Kate Stables on a versatile, modest director whose career spanned 60 years of British cinema, and some of its biggest hits – from a run of patriotic war films to Alfie and James Bond in the 1960s and 70s, and on to Willy Russell’s sharp female-led dramas in the 80s.
Friday 2 March 2018 -
Mirrors to the abyss: the radical doubling of Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake
The first series of Jane Campion’s New Zealand crime drama showcases her fullest, feminist creative use of reflections, duplicates and doppelgängers, writes Brad Stevens.
Wednesday 28 February 2018 -
Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. review: troubles of a pop tiger
Steve Loveridge’s documentary portrait of (and with) the sharp-edged British rapper M.I.A. takes a good look at the underpinnings of her stardom – if not so much at her creativity itself, says Simran Hans.
Tuesday 27 February 2018 -
Victory Day review: Sergei Loznitsa eyes history’s motley parade
The prolific Ukrainian director’s latest crowd canvas studies a corner of Berlin that is forever Red – the Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park – with his usual canny abstraction, says Michael Pattison.
Tuesday 27 February 2018 -
The best of Berlinale 2018 – the awards and our critics’ picks
The Berlin Film Festival jury’s top prize choice was a distinct(ive) surprise, but 2018 included a breadth of finds to write home about, to judge by this straw poll of our correspondents.
Tuesday 27 February 2018
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