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12 Days review: Raymond Depardon’s heartbreaking insight into psychiatric care
This remarkable documentary lays bare the decision-making process at a hospital in France, where four judges determine who gets to leave and who must stay. Geoff Andrew reviews.
Friday 26 May 2017 -
Redoubtable review: irreverent riff on Godard in ’68
Michel Hazanavicius’s nouvelle vague romcom re-enacts the affair between an angst-ridden Jean-Luc Godard and ingenue actress Anne Wiazemsky. It’s far from respectful, but few cinephiles will be able to resist its knowing humour, writes Jonathan Romney.
Friday 26 May 2017 -
24 Frames review: Abbas Kiarostami’s living, parting miniatures
Mementos of the late master’s increasingly minimalist poetics, these short experiments in animating photographs and a painting teem with life’s magic and mysteries, says Geoff Andrew.
Wednesday 24 May 2017 -
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) review: bittersweet and brutal stories of family life
Noah Baumbach’s latest is a thematic, mature sequel to his breakthrough The Squid and the Whale, with Dustin Hoffman at the head of a dysfunctional brood of New York intellectuals, writes Michael Leader.
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Montparnasse Bienvenue (Jeune Femme) review: furious moments in an unruly life
Laetitia Dosch plays an impulsive, newly single young woman adrift in Paris in this enjoyably chaotic, picaresque character study, the feature debut by Léonor Serraille, writes Sophie Monks Kaufman.
Thursday 25 May 2017 -
Cannes 2017 midway round-up: the best and worst of the first week
Nick James on the hits and misses of the Competition so far, including Michael Haneke’s Happy End, Valeska Grisebach’s Western and Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Loveless.
Tuesday 23 May 2017
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King Arthur: Legend of the Sword review – this sword stays in its stone
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From the Roger Corman pumphouse to The Silence of the Lambs’s Oscar triumph, Stop Making Sense’s concert-doc ingenuity to portraits of social-justice fighters, Jonathan Demme left a legacy of richly independent movies celebrating life’s underdogs, writes David Thompson.
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Thursday 27 April 2017 -
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This comic-book sequel is an enjoyably nostalgic second excursion with lovable scruffs from the far reaches of the Marvel canon – but while the fun factor remains, the novelty is wearing thin, writes Kim Newman.
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Film of the week: The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki finds romance outside the ring
In Finland in the 1960s, a promising young boxer must choose between sporting success and settling down with the woman he loves. In the deft interplay between fighter, coach and girlfriend, this low-key film lands an emotional punch, writes Hannah McGill.
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder interviewed in 1974: “The primary need is to satisfy the audience”
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