Locarno Film Festival 2018 – all our coverage

First-look reviews

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  Ray & Liz first look: revealing a troubled family scrap by scrap

  Richard Billingham’s obliquely topical debut feature offers a fragmented story of life in inner-city Birmingham during the Thatcher years, as bruising memories rise to the surface, writes James Lattimer.
  Wednesday 15 August 2018

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  Suburban Birds first look: Qiu Sheng’s debut feature forges magical links between generations

  A group of adult engineers and another of playful children tread the same ground in Qiu Sheng’s impressive debut feature, in which the company we keep tilts the world on its axis, writes John Bleasdale.
  Thursday 9 August 2018

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  Too Late to Die Young first look: a country comes of age

  Set in the aftermath of the Pinochet regime, Dominga Sotomayor’s accomplished third film explores different generations adapting to new freedoms and an uncertain future, writes Josh Slater-Williams.
  Wednesday 15 August 2018

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  Diane first look: a triumph of decency over despair

  Kent Jones makes his fiction debut with this warm and very astute portrait of a widow in a small town, grappling with a difficult son and the fragility of life as she ages, writes Paul O’Callaghan.
  Wednesday 15 August 2018

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  Yara first look: a celebration of innocence and young love

  Abbas Fahdel’s gentle film sets a teenage romance in a sun-kissed farm in the mountains of northern Lebanon, writes John Bleasdale.
  Wednesday 15 August 2018

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  Coincoin and the Extra Humans first look: Bruno Dumont raises a stink in a small town

  Bruno Dumont’s confounding TV series returns for another madcap and macabre adventure, with Bernard Pruvost as an absurd detective investigating some whiffy business, writes Ben Nicholson.
  Wednesday 15 August 2018

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  Alice T. first look: a flawed tale of teenage pregnancy

  Radu Muntean’s latest drama follows a rebellious daughter and her distraught mother through a crisis, but fails to convince us to believe in their delicate dynamic, writes James Lattimer.
  Thursday 9 August 2018