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Festivals

About Dry Grasses: Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s talky portrait of a teacher in crisis

The focus is firmly on telling over showing in Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s cerebral film about an art teacher in a quiet Anatolian village who is accused of inappropriate behaviour.

By James Lattimer

About Dry Grasses: Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s talky portrait of a teacher in crisis
Reviews

Close: this portrait of a messy friendship is too neat for its own good

By James Lattimer

Close: this portrait of a messy friendship is too neat for its own good
Reviews

My Old School: school daze

By James Lattimer

My Old School: school daze
Festivals

Human Flowers of Flesh: a Mediterranean marvel

By James Lattimer

Human Flowers of Flesh: a Mediterranean marvel
Festivals

Directors’ Fortnight: round-up

By James Lattimer

Directors’ Fortnight: round-up
Festivals

Memoria shows Apichatpong at the peak of his mesmerising powers

By James Lattimer

Memoria shows Apichatpong at the peak of his mesmerising powers
Festivals

Onoda, 10,000 Nights in the Jungle gets lost in the Filipino wilds

By James Lattimer

Onoda, 10,000 Nights in the Jungle gets lost in the Filipino wilds
Reviews

Alice T. first look: a flawed tale of teenage pregnancy

By James Lattimer

Alice T. first look: a flawed tale of teenage pregnancy
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Long Day’s Journey into Night first look: Bi Gan’s film follows its own woozy dream logic

By James Lattimer

Long Day’s Journey into Night first look: Bi Gan’s film follows its own woozy dream logic
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Fire Will Come first look: Oliver Laxe charts a path to paradise that ends in hell

By James Lattimer

Fire Will Come first look: Oliver Laxe charts a path to paradise that ends in hell
Reviews

The Wild Goose Lake first look: Diao Yinan spins a dazzling neon neo-noir

By James Lattimer

The Wild Goose Lake first look: Diao Yinan spins a dazzling neon neo-noir
Interviews

Directing Directors’ Fortnight: Paolo Moretti on his first time programming Cannes’s Quinzaine

By James Lattimer

Directing Directors’ Fortnight: Paolo Moretti on his first time programming Cannes’s Quinzaine
Reviews

Donbass first look: both too much and too little about the war in Ukraine

By James Lattimer

Donbass first look: both too much and too little about the war in Ukraine
Reviews

Ray & Liz first look: revealing a troubled family scrap by scrap

By James Lattimer

Ray & Liz first look: revealing a troubled family scrap by scrap
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