Reviews

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...

Dir: Agnieszka Holland | Cast: James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard, Joseph Mawle, Fenella Woolgar, Kenneth Cranham, Celyn Jones, Krzysztof Pieczyński, Michalina Olszańska, Patricia Volny | Poland, United Kingdom, Ukraine 2019 | Cinematography:...

Dir/Wri.: Nabil Ayouch, Cast: Anas Basbousi, Ismail Adouab, Amina Kannan, Meriem Nekkach, Nouhaila Arif, Zineb Boujemaa, Samah Barigou, Abdelilah Basbousi, Maha Menan, Mehdi Razzouk, Marwa Kniniche, Soufiane Belali, Zineb Boujemaa;...

Dir: Bobcat Goldthwait | Cast: Joel Murray, Tara Lynne Barr | US Comedy Drama 104’ "My name is Frank. But that's not important. The important question is "who are you?"  America...

Dir: Marie Amiguet, Vincent Munier | France, Doc, 89' If you're thinking this is going to be another children's Christmas animation - think again. The Velvet Queen - or its more...

Dir: Arthur Crabtree | Cast: Stewart Granger, Jean Kent, Dennis Price, Anne Crawford | UK drama 117’ In his memoirs Stewart Granger - who we're here supposed to believe is a...

  Dir: Aaron Nee | Cast: Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, Daniel Radcliffe | US Action drama | 112' A scanty storyline that still took five screenwriters to cobble together is dragged even...