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Film of the week: Fire at Sea

The lives of others: nonfiction master Gianfranco Rosi depicts daily life and unconscionable tragedy back to back on the Mediterranean frontier island of Lampedusa – and asks us how to connect them, says Trevor Johnston.

Trevor Johnston
Friday 10 June 2016

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Lancing corruption in Line of Duty and Undercover

Two recent BBC hit series mine real-life institutional crookedness for drama, better or worse – but they’d be more truly gripping if they didn’t fence us off from it, argues Gaylene Gould.

Gaylene Gould
Friday 3 June 2016

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Film of the week: The Measure of a Man

Mal travail: the great Vincent Lindon bears the degradations of life as a capitalist cog in his third collaboration with France’s flourishing social realist Stéphane Brizé, writes Ginette Vincendeau.

Ginette Vincendeau
Thursday 2 June 2016

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Film of the week: Love & Friendship

Schemes and schemata: Kate Beckinsale makes an indelible drawing-room puppet mistress in Whit Stillman’s excellently acerbic adaptation of Jane Austen’s Lady Susan, says Thirza Wakefield.

Thirza Wakefield
Thursday 26 May 2016

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Risk – first look

Isabel Stevens on Laura Poitras’s righteous, embedded portrait of Julian Assange and two years of WikiLeaking.

Isabel Stevens
Sunday 22 May 2016

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The Death of Louis XIV – first look

Six decades after The 400 Blows, Jean-Pierre Léaud plays the dying Sun King in a stately, majestic study of flesh and emblems from Albert Serra – surely the most beautiful film at Cannes 2016.

Jonathan Romney
Sunday 22 May 2016

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Elle – first look

A typically inimitable Isabelle Huppert takes no prisoners in Paul Verhoeven’s typically black-comic provocation, a rape-reaction art melodrama that’s his first film in ten years, writes Geoff Andrew.

Geoff Andrew
Sunday 22 May 2016

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Divines review: an exuberant young female buddy thriller

This go-its-own-way banlieu barnstormer from the self-taught Houda Benyamina was officially the best debut feature at Cannes 2016, says Isabel Stevens.

Isabel Stevens
Sunday 22 May 2016

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Raw – first look

Chloe Roddick hails a fresh feminine (and sororal) horror from French first feature director Julia Ducournau, set in the blank spaces of a veterinary college.

Chloe Roddick
Saturday 21 May 2016

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Hissein Habré, a Chadian Tragedy – first look

Chadian director Mahamet-Saleh Haroun was one of many exiles from the country’s brutal 1980s dictatorship. Now he honours the regime’s victims and documents a quarter-century campaign for justice, writes Geoff Andrew.

Geoff Andrew
Friday 20 May 2016

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