The Spanish director’s debut feature is an intensely autobiographical tale of an orphan confronting the loss of innocence that bereavement brings. She tells Ella Kemp how she turned her own childhood into a captivating film.
Marion Cotillard is outshone by her youthful co-star Ayline Aksoy-Etaix in this flawed but emotionally vibrant melodrama – a remarkable debut from Vanessa Filho, writes Ella Kemp.
A teenage boy watches his parents’ marriage crumble in Dano’s nuanced directorial debut, which features exemplary lead performances from Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal, writes Ella Kemp.
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.
Alonso Ruizpalacios’s delightfully fresh dramatisation of Mexico’s most scandalous museum heist (and then some) is as unorthodox as the young conspirators it depicts, says Ella Kemp.