New Directors/New Films — A–Z of films

Pollard and Forsyth, who have previously worked with Cave on Bad Seeds videos, turn inner states into inhabitable rooms. What is real and what is unreal is not for the audience to guess.

Jennifer Kent's film creates something original, even frightening

I wished for Billy Wilder's spirit from The Apartment to take over the tone just a little bit.

Awe inspiring.

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

This is really a film that rests on Slate’s charm, which fortunately she delivers in spades.

Cinematographer Bergsteinn Björgúlfsson captures Iceland at its wildest and yet this is also a tale of intimacy without romanticism.

The film has been impressively edited by Anne Fabini, so that despite the inevitable rough and ready nature of some of the footage captured under fire, the end result feels taut and cohesive.

Saleh Bakri is superb in the central role, at first chilling, then lurching between brutality and incongruous tenderness.

For all that its often said "they don't make them like they used to" this is very, very close.

Zürcher's film may not follow traditional storytelling lines but it is bold in form and, for all its lack of story, memorable in content.

The act of revenge here is presented not as an outlet for anger but as one of desperation, an emotion that runs through the film.