Flare — A–Z of films

Director Sophie Deraspe, probably best-known for 2009 drama Vital Signs, brings a strong sense of the cinematic to what, on paper, looks like a poor candidate for it.

A solid, grounded piece of work that approaches its subject with a maturity remarkable for a first feature from a young director.

Frédéric Tcheng's documentary about a house and its ghosts in past and present is all you could desire from a fashion film.

Although it's as uneven as the make-up, this film has moments of brilliance.

The Duke Of Burgundy is delicate, constructed, poised; a piece of naturalistic beauty with all the authentic artificiality of wings pinioned while drying by small pieces of paper, a needle through the heart that wrenches.

A difficult film, and a film about difficult women.

If you're willing to go with the flow, this study of emotion develops and maintains a sensual and sensory intensity.

Transformation is coming, although as with Sciamma's previous films this is not a simple, one-way manoeuvre, completed in double-quick time

Erica Tremblay's unobtrusive interview technique draws out personal stories that hint at much bigger social shifts.

There is too much of the ring of the academic argument and, especially for a film so concerned with the spiritual, not quite enough soul.

As a portrait of a particular community at a critical moment in its history, this film is undoubtedly valuable.

Sexuality, Francois Ozon's latest film declares, can be as complex as desiring another person can be simple.

A feelgood parable of human nature's ability to extract the positive from a negative.

If you are willing to drift along Olson's stream of consciousness, there are pleasures along the way, but not all her meanderings make the connections she hopes for.

Possibly the best musical ever written.

Does seem to predict reality television, and satirise it, in a frighteningly prescient way.

Stylistically simple but quite remarkable when one considers that they were filmed with a single DSLR, these short films form a powerful whole.