Reviews

Dir; Gaspar Noe | 142' Gaspar Noe’s latest is a tougher, spikier and less affecting version of Michael Haneke's Oscar-winning Amour (2012) that pictured the final months of a couple in their...

Dir: Fred Zinnerman | Cast: Marlon Brando, Teresa Wright, Everett Sloane, Jack Webb | US Action drama 85' Even in his first film Marlon Brando dominates the screen with his feral...

Dir.: Jan Kounen; Cast: Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci, Tchéky Karyo, Dominique Bettenfeld, Romain Duris, Stephane Metzger; France 1997, 104 min. A tour-de-force of misogyny and profanities Doberman champions its anti-intellectual stance with an unrelenting...

Dir: John M Stahl | Cast: Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jean Crain, Vincent Price | US Noir 110' I was once asked what the most glamorous film I could think of...

The Cannes Film Festival competition sidebar known for auteur driven features and alluring visual storytelling rather than star-strewn casts.   LES PIRES Lise AKOKA, Romane GUERET 1st film First time directors Lisa Akoka and...

Dir: Nicholas Ray | Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan | US Thriller 82' Robert Ryan commences in full psycho mode in this further step up in the ascending career of Nicholas...

This year's Cannes Classics strand opens with Jean Eustache's The Mother and the Whore in celebrating of its restoration 50 years after shooting began in 1972. The mammoth undertaking runs for...

Dir.: Niki Karimi; Cast: Hadi Hejazifar, Sahar Dolatshahi, Javaad Ezzati, Danial Noorvash, Yousefali Daryadel, Mahlagha Meynoosh, Masoumeh Robaninia; Iran 2020, 106 min. The Iranian countryside is the setting for this visually...

Dir/Wri: Thomas Dakeskov | Denmark Drama 101' Another amusing absurdist Danish comedy along the same lines as male midlife crisis films Klown and Another Round. Written and directed by Thomas Dakeskov it sees...