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Mia Hansen-Løve’s newest film, Bergman Island, stars Vicky Krieps and Tim Roth as filmmakers Chris and Tony who have retreated to the island of Fårö for the summer. They travel to the island, known for...

The most visceral aspect of Are You Lonesome Tonight? is its mesmeric use of colour and light. The screen is frequently flooded with bright reds and greens, or entirely washed out under an overbearing...

Catherine Corsini’s The Divide (La Fracture) stars Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Marina Foïs as Raf and Julie, two women on the verge of a breakup, stuck in a hospital on the night of a major demonstration of...

Julia Ducournau, French director of the bloody 2016 masterpiece, Raw, graces Cannes Film Festival once more with her newest film, Titane. It turns out to be even more shocking and fearless than her debut,...

Depicting the complex fabric of society is never an easy task. In his latest film Returning to Reims, filmmaker Jean-Gabriel Périot attempts to coalesce over 80 years of history to tell the story of...

Adapted from the novel of the same name by Rosa Liksom comes Juho Kuosmanen’s Compartment No. 6 (Hytti nro 6), a film that takes place mostly within the confines of a Russian train. Young Finnish student...

One of Cannes Film Festival’s most anticipated films, Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, is a love letter to journalists that consists of a collection of short stories in the final issue of a magazine...

Based on the non-fiction book Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy by Judith C. Brown is Paul Verhoeven’s newest erotic, blasphemous, and extremely camp film, Benedetta. In...

A film that’s told in twelve parts, as well as a prologue and an epilogue, Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person in the World (Verdens verste menneske), fits a lot into its two-hour runtime, yet never overstays...

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s Lingui tells the story of Amina (Achouackh Abakar Souleymane), a practising Muslim in Chad, and her 15-year-old daughter, Maria (Rihane Khalil Alio). When Amina learns that her...

Jake (Colin Farrell), Kyra (Jodie Turner-Smith), and their youngest, Mika (Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja), make up a family that exists in the future, a family completed only by Yang (Justin H. Min), an android...

Andrea Arnold’s newest film, Cow, documents the daily lives of two cows, Luma and her recently born calf whose birth we witness up close. Arnold focuses on showing what it's like for them to be treated as a...

François Ozon’s touching film Everything Went Fine (Tout S'est Bien Passé) begins just after 85-year-old André (André Dussollier) has a stroke, and his daughters, Emmanuèle (Sophie Marceau) and Pascale...

With a study of how one’s mind navigates between stability and insanity, french director Justine Triet’s latest feature Sibyl is a legitimate attempt at portraying the complexity within human imagination....

Nina Wu comes at a perfect moment, hot on the heels of the #MeToo movement which finally challenged longstanding abusive practices in the film industry. Its tale of power, control, and the male gaze is a...