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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.
  • An Affair of Love (1999)
    Review preview for An Affair of Love

    Sex has seldom been better served for discerning, romantic sensualists.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Exploration of love and sex after two people meet through a small ad.
  • Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
    Review preview for Dirty Pretty Things

    Ejiofor's performance is perfectly judged.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Illegal immigrants in London become caught up in an organ replacement racket.
  • Empty Days (1999)
    Review preview for Empty Days

    As a short history of a relationship, it has an honesty that cuts through convention.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Two people from opposite ends of the social scale, both previously laid off from very different positions at the same company meet in the supermarket.
  • Happy As Lazzaro (2018)
    Review preview for Happy As Lazzaro

    Newcomer Tardiolo is splendid in the lead.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A young nobleman asks a peasant to help fake his own kidnapping.
  • Harry, He's Here To Help (1999)
    Review preview for Harry, He's Here To Help

    As a study in psychopathic single-mindedness, its sickness is its strength.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    Dark tale of an obsessive friend who imposes upon a family for psychopathic reasons.
  • I Always Wanted To Be A Gangster (2007)
    Review preview for I Always Wanted To Be A Gangster

    Benchetrit keeps a firm hand on the tiller, despite some of the film's more wild flights of fancy - including a perfectly pitched homage to silent film.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Existential comedy told in four vignettes linked by a roadside cafe.
  • Jet Lag (2002)
    Review preview for Jet Lag

    It's deliciously grown-up.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    A lacquered beautician and an overstressed chef come together in the chaos of a crowded airport.
  • Little Indi (2009)
    Review preview for Little Indi

    Recha depicts a hardscrabble existence but finds fleeting moments of beauty, affection, and pleasure by focussing on the things that truly matter to Arnau.

    Rebecca Naughten · 4 out of 5
    Living on the outskirts of Barcelona, Arnau raises a menagerie of songbirds and tries to accumulate the funds to hire a lawyer for his imprisoned mother.
  • Maldoror (2024)
    Review preview for Maldoror

    Although this is set in the Nineties, the gritty feel makes it redolent of Seventies-set thrillers, a mood reinforced by the way that du Welz embeds us in Paul’s life from the start.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Two girls vanish. Police recruit Paul Chartier joins a covert unit tracking a sex offender. After the operation falters, Chartier pursues the perpetrators independently, disillusioned with legal constraints.
  • The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)
    Review preview for The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

    Gilliam’s script cannot quite stand the excesses of his own imagination.

    Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
    A cynical advertising director finds himself trapped in the outrageous delusions of an old Spanish shoe-maker who believes himself to be Don Quixote.
  • The Monk (2011)
    Review preview for The Monk

    Structured like a Greek tragedy, steeped in Gothic gloom, this is a bold and dramatic tale but also a sly one.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    The tragedy of a devoted servant of God whose very righteousness leads him on the path to damnation.
  • New Eve (1999)
    Review preview for New Eve

    This is not so much a love story as sex warfare.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    A chance encounter leads to obssession.
  • Orphan (2016)
    Review preview for Orphan

    This film, like it's central character is wilfully complex and surprisingly fluid, wrong-footing us as we try to fill in the spaces between each vignette at the same time as drawing us to its thriller component.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Four incarnations of a character who is a mistress of reinvention.
  • A Perfect Day To Fly (2015)
    Review preview for A Perfect Day To Fly

    The boy, played by the director's seven-year-old son Roc, looks almost as bored with the tale as we are - too many takes, perhaps?

    Amber Wilkinson · 1.5 out of 5
    A man helps a child fly a kite and tells him a story.
  • Pacifiction (2022)
    Review preview for Pacifiction

    The languid mood contrasts with the most dangerous topics.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    On the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, the High Commissioner of the Republic and French government navigates the high end "establishment" as well as shady venues as a rumour abounds about the sighting of a submarine whose presence could herald the return of French nuclear testing.
  • Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
    Review preview for Pan's Labyrinth

    A masterpiece of accomplishment.

    Chris · 5 out of 5
    In the midst of the Spanish Civil War, a lonely girl encounters a mysterious faun.
  • Perfumes (2020)
    Review preview for Perfumes

    There's a gentle feel-good sweep to Grégory Magne's French dramedy, which though it is built of familiar elements, remains a very watchable blend.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    A friendship begins to blossom between a stressed chauffeur and his aloof client.
  • Ricky (2009)
    Review preview for Ricky

    Although Ozon never quite makes his mind up about the tone of the piece, the weird juxtaposition of the normal and abnormal is mostly effective.

    Adam Micklethwaite · 3 out of 5
    Story of two ordinary people who go on to have a most extraordinary child.
  • Rifkin's Festival (2020)
    Review preview for Rifkin's Festival

    This new film, like all the others, has some of that old Woody sauce as well that gives it some charm, but it’s a mere shadow of its old self.

    Nikola Jovic · 2.5 out of 5
    The story of a couple who attend San Sebastian Film Festival only to find their romance tested.
  • Rosa's Wedding (2020)
    Review preview for Rosa's Wedding

    With beautifully drawn characters and superb performances all round, Icíar Bollaín's enchanting comedy draws viewers into a world where romance is not dependent on a committed relationship and love takes many different forms.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Rosa, about to turn 45, realises that she has always lived for others, so she decides to press the nuclear button, shake things up, leave it all and grab hold of the reins of her life.
  • Sirât (2025)
    Review preview for Sirât

    The film looks amazing, but it sounds even more incredible.

    Richard Mowe · 4 out of 5
    A father arrives at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco with his son, looking for his daughter who has been missing for months.

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