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10 great French debut films by women directors
From Agnès Varda to Mati Diop: how these first fiction features announced the arrival of formidable talents.
By Catherine Wheatley
10 great French debut films by women directors
Catherine Wheatley
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The Teachers’ Lounge: the hunt for a bad apple leads to chaos in this jittery classroom thriller
By Catherine Wheatley
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The Sweet East: a risky, uncompromising road movie
By Catherine Wheatley
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The Taste of Things: Tran Anh Hung’s elegant gastro film is a feast for the senses
By Catherine Wheatley
Interviews
“It’s such an important part of history that people are so unaware of”: Lily Gladstone on Killers of the Flower Moon
By Catherine Wheatley
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Killers of the Flower Moon second-look review: a landmark achievement for Martin Scorsese
By Catherine Wheatley
Festivals
The Royal Hotel: a backpacking adventure turns toxic in Kitty Green’s quiet thriller
By Catherine Wheatley
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The Innocent: an endearing French screwball heist
By Catherine Wheatley
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The Super 8 Years: Annie Ernaux’s scenes from a marriage
By Catherine Wheatley
Interviews
“My films are all connected to one another because they are so personal”
By Catherine Wheatley
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Love According to Dalva: this sensitive debut explores the aftermath of abuse
By Catherine Wheatley
Festivals
Typist Artist Pirate King: this portrait of Audrey Amiss is by turns riotous and touching
By Catherine Wheatley
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Both Sides of the Blade: too subtle to cut to the heart of its themes
By Catherine Wheatley
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Irma Vep: a cinephile fantasy made flesh
By Catherine Wheatley
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Moon, 66 Questions: a deeply moving father-daughter portrait
By Catherine Wheatley
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Happening is a gripping film about the realities of abortion in the 1960s
By Catherine Wheatley
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Herself finds sanctuary in a self-made cabin in the woods
By Catherine Wheatley
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Pieces of a Woman follows the course of child birth, death and remembrance
By Catherine Wheatley
From the Sight and Sound archive
Remake/remodel: 45 weird and wonderful alternative film cuts
By James Bell, Tom Charity and others
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Call Me by Your Name radiates the heat of passion
By Catherine Wheatley
Reviews
Body of Water gives us haunting fragments of a photographer’s anorexia
By Catherine Wheatley
Best of 2020
Les Misérables: 24 hours of violence in the Paris streets
By Catherine Wheatley
Lists
Forgotten treasures of the multiplex
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