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Deauville Festival of American Cinema

5 September – 13 August 2014

Before I Go To Sleep
Before I Go To Sleep

The Deauville Festival of American Cinema celebrated its 40th birthday with a stellar line-up including the première of Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth's Before I Go To Sleep. It included tributes to Robin Williams, Lauren Bacall and Yul Brynner, plus a special award for James Cameron.

The festival will run from 5 to 13 September.

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  • Infinitely Polar Bear
    Review preview for Infinitely Polar Bear

    Ruffalo is astonishing. He makes Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook look easy.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    A manic-depressive mess of a father tries to win back his wife by attempting to take full responsibility for their two young daughters.
  • The Good Lie
    Review preview for The Good Lie

    Feels as real as the sand under their feet

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    Escape of Sudanese children from the devastation of civil war ends years later in the USA where fresh culture shocks await
  • White Bird In A Blizzard
    Review preview for White Bird In A Blizzard

    Araki never digs deep enough, wasting the opportunity to expose her resentments.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
    A teenager's life is thrown into turmoil when her mother disappears.
  • Love Is Strange
    Review preview for Love Is Strange

    Courageous and uncompromising

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    The consequences of a gay marriage on family and friends.
  • A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
    Review preview for A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night

    An astonishing début that marks out Ana Lily Amirpour as an extraordinary directorial talent.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    A lonely vampire and a young man exhausted by caring for his father come together in a nightmare city.
  • Get On Up
    Review preview for Get On Up

    Only on stage does the fire blaze

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
  • National Gallery
    Review preview for National Gallery

    What comes through is a sense of the vast number of tasks the museum must carry out to cover its remit as a public service.

    Owen Van Spall · 4 out of 5
    A documentary exploring the National Gallery in London.
  • It Follows
    Review preview for It Follows

    A simple but compelling dynamic... the execution is superb.

    Owen Van Spall · 4 out of 5
    A teenager finds herself having strange visions and becomes convinced that something dangerous is following her.
  • The Boxtrolls
    Review preview for The Boxtrolls

    Having set a scene of intriguing grotesquery the plot falls victim of its own invention

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    A young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors tries to save his friends from an evil exterminator.
  • The Hundred-Foot Journey
    Review preview for The Hundred-Foot Journey

    Marinated in tradition.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    An Indian family move to France and open a curry house across the road from a Michelin-starred restaurant.

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