Reviews

Dir.: Hannes Holm; Cast: Rolf Lassgard, Bahar Pars, Ida Engvoll, Filip Berg, Chatarina Larsson, Börje Lundberg; Sweden 2015, 116 min. Veteran director/writer Hannes Holm (Adam and Eve) offers up an thoughtful...

Director: Jeppe Rønde |Writers: Jeppe Rønde, Torben Bech, Peter Asmussen |Cast: Hannah Murray, Josh O’Connor, Steven Waddington | Denmark Drama 99min Danish tourist Jeppe Rønde arrived in Bridgend with a readymade tragedy-mystery...

Dir.: Andrej Tarkovsky | Cast: Alexander Kaidanovski, Alisa Fejndlik, Natasha Abramova, Anatoli Solonitsyn, Nikolai Grinko | USSR 1979 | 163 min. STALKER based on the novel ‘Roadside Picnic’ by Arkadi and...

Director: Vincent Perez |Cast: Brendan Gleeson, Emma Thompson, Daniel Brühl, Mikael Persbrandt |Germany|France| UK Brendan Gleeson and Emma Thompson make this rather plodding wartime drama watchable. They play the unhappy married...

Writer-director: Kleber Mendonca Filho Cast: Sonia Braga, Julia Bernat, Humberto Carrao, Paula De Renor, Maeve Jinkings 140min | Drama | Brazil Brazilian writer and director Kleber Mendonca Filho rose to fame with his...

Dir. Joel Hopkins. UK, 2017, 103 mins | Cast: Diane Keaton, Brendan Gleeson | US | Romcom | 104min HAMPSTEAD is one of London's oldest villages where 'quaint' boutiques (think Foxtons...

Dir: Andrew Kötting | Doc | UK | 60min | with Claurdia Barton, David Aylward, Anonymous Bosch, Jem Finer Andrew Kötting is celebrated for his quintessentially English films that capture the idiosyncratic...

Dir: Bavo Defurne | Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Kevin Azais | Drama | Belgium | 92min Isabelle Huppert plays a chanteuse emerging from a long retirement in this slim but delightful musical...

Cannes was not the only film festival celebrating its 70th birthday in 2017. Edinburgh International Film Festival is the same shares the same anniversary and takes place from 21 June...