Gaspar Noe’s films have an uncanny knack for being gimmicky and visionary at the same time, which is perhaps one of the reasons they receive such a scornful reaction from [...]
Ghost Stories is Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson’s adaptation of their play of the same name, which revolves around Professor Phillip Goodman, played by Nyman, a television [...]
Lucrecia Martel’s first film in nine years is an adaptation of the 1956 novel Zama by Antonio di Benedetto, which has recently made its way into an English translation, but [...]
Marcelo Martinessi’s The Heiresses is not just one of the most significant Paraguayan features to have been released on the world stage, but a passionate bid in and of [...]
Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s latest film marks a bit of a shift away from the glacial sublimity of Once Upon a Time in Anatolia and Winter Sleep. While the scale of his ambition [...]
Debra Granik’s follow-up to Winter’s Bone is a programmatic deconstruction and disarticulation of the settler mentality that has come to pervade so much white male [...]
Lee Chang-dong’s latest film is a slow, smouldering and atmospheric adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s short story “Barn Burning,” which is itself an allusion to – if [...]
Depictions of grief and trauma tend to abound at film festivals, which is where I saw A Murder in Mansfield – a context that really clarified just how nuanced, meditative [...]
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Shoplifters is one of the mildest and gentlest films of his entire career – an immersive account of the life of a makeshift Japanese family living in [...]
Like We Need To Talk About Kevin, Lynne Ramsay’s most recent film is an adaptation of a novel whose dissonant and brooding sense of horror would seem to pose considerable [...]