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  • 21 Nights With Pattie (2015)
    Review preview for 21 Nights With Pattie

    This initially seems like a set-up for a film exploring mental reconciliation after estrangement but the Larrieus have other ideas - perhaps too many of them.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    After her mother has died, Caroline befriends a woman who was looking after her mother, but events take a mysterious turn.
  • Beau Travail (1999)
    An officer recalls his life in the Foreign Legion.
  • The Bra (2018)
    Review preview for The Bra

    Far from being lascivious, Nurlan is wistful, and Manojlovi, who has the look of a sort of hangdog Walter Mathau, favours expressions of surprise, puzzlement and resignation over anything so low-brow as lust.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    After the train of a retiring driver snags a blue bra, he embarks on a quest to return the under garment.
  • Eva Doesn't Sleep (2015)
    Review preview for Eva Doesn't Sleep

    The director, perhaps too accustomed to the more limited budget of his early films 77 Doronship and Salamander, imagines the story of Peron's corpse as a series of vignettes, which gives the film a feeling of a unsatisfactorily adapted stage play.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2 out of 5
    Eva Peron's embalmed body becomes the focal point of clashes lasting a quarter of a century.
  • Holy Motors (2012)
    Review preview for Holy Motors

    Mendes more veiled than unveiled and, at times, resembling the Virgin Mary, is wonderful, confused and tender.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    From dawn to dusk, a few hours in the life of Monsieur Oscar, a shadowy character who journeys from one life to the next.
  • Hood Witch (2023)
    Review preview for Hood Witch

    It’s the acting that carries it, and naturally Farahani, one of the finest talents of her generation, does not disappoint.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A woman earns a living by smuggling exotic animals and illegal goods, developing a mobile app that links users with mystical marabout healers, but one of the user's consultations takes a tragic turn, preciptitaing a violent backlash.
  • Human Flowers Of Flesh (2022)
    Review preview for Human Flowers Of Flesh

    Human Flowers Of Flesh is a film of spaces merging, physically in image, in thought, and of the senses.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4.5 out of 5
    Ida and her crew travel across the Mediterranean’s land and seascapes, lured by the mystique of the French Foreign Legion.
  • History's Future (2016)
    Review preview for History's Future

    Unfolds as an epic poem in which the fiction alternates with documentary inserts and strange, dreamlike hallucinations.

    Leo Bankersen · 4 out of 5
    An amnesiac man tries to piece his life back together.
  • Journey To The West (2014)
    Review preview for Journey To The West

    A meditative miniature of hypnotic grace.

    Rebecca Naughten · 4.5 out of 5
    A slow-moving Buddhist monk acquires a follower on the streets of Marseille.
  • Mister Lonely (2007)
    Review preview for Mister Lonely

    The glorious sight of a flying nun, an image Korine has said was one of his inspirations for the film, is both a moving and a joyous one.

    Paul Griffiths · 3.5 out of 5
    Celebrity lookalikes get to know one another whilst a crazy old priest takes nuns flying.
  • The Mountain (2018)
    Review preview for The Mountain

    Kier, Goldblum, and Lavant are never less than fantastic in their portrayal of modes of crazed, unreliably self-assured masculinity.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4.5 out of 5
    A young man who was raised by his emotional stunted father goes to work with his mentor, a doctor who performs lobotomies and shock therapy.
  • The Night Eats The World (2018)
    Review preview for The Night Eats The World

    Expanding on the notion of loneliness and the importance of familiar places in our lives, Rocher brings in themes about emotional dependency, possessiveness and the ways we define our identities in relation to others.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Following one hell of a party, Sam wakes up to the worst-ever morning after — blood-stained walls, an empty apartment building, and Parisian streets filled with the living dead. Even worse, he’s all alone.
  • Redoubt (2025)
    Review preview for Redoubt

    The production design of Redoubt is nothing short of a triumph.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    At the peak of the Cold War, farm worker Karl-Göran Persson starts fortifying his house. He gathers scrap metal and casts it into the walls to build a fortress meant to protect himself and his neighbours setting him on the path to conflict with his community
  • The Stranger (2025)
    Review preview for The Stranger

    Ozon remains faithful to the source and keeps its sense of mystery but has strengthened the female characters

    Richard Mowe · 4 out of 5
    Adaptation of Camus' classic.
  • Tokyo! (2008)
    Review preview for Tokyo!

    There's much that’s enjoyable and enchanting.

    Emma Slawinski · 4 out of 5
    Three off-beat visions of the famous city.
  • A Very Long Engagement (2004)
    Review preview for A Very Long Engagement

    A miniature masterpiece.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
    A woman, refuses to believe her fiancé has been killed on the battlefield and goes in search of him.

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