Alexa Dalby

Cannes Film Festival 2025, out now, ReviewsMay 14, 2025

Cannes 2025: Un Certain Regard selection

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Cannes 2025: Un Certain Regard selection

Cannes Film Festival 2025, out now, ReviewsMay 14, 2025

Cannes 2025: Quinzaine des Réalisateurs: 14-20 May: Programme

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Cannes 2025: Quinzaine des Réalisateurs

★★★, Cannes Film Festival 2025, Female Filmmakers, first full-length feature, FranceMay 14, 2025

Cannes Film Festival 2025: Opening Film Tuesday 13 May: Partir Un Jour (2025) (Leave One Day)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Cannes 2025: Opening Film 13 May 2025,

Cannes Film Festival 2025, out now, ReviewsMay 13, 2025

Cannes 2025: Semaine de la Critique: Wednesday 14 May: Opening Films

By Alexa Dalby

Cannes Film Festival 2025May 8, 2025

Cannes Film Festival 2025 (additions)

By Alexa Dalby

COMPETITION RÉSURRECTIONBi Gan OUT OF COMPETITION 13 JOURS, 13 NUITSMartin Bourboulon SPECIAL SCREENING THE SIX BILLION DOLLAR MANEugene Jarecki CANNES PREMIERE MA FRÈRELise Akoka…

★★★★★, Cannes Film Festival 2025, out now, ReviewsApril 10, 2025

Cannes Film Festival 2025: Official Selection

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2025: Official Selection

★★★★, Cannes Film Festival 2024, coming of age, Female Filmmakers, first feature, France, out nowApril 7, 2025

Holy Cow (2024)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Holy Cow, co-written and directed by Louise Courvoisier, is a lovely, involving coming-of-age story set in rural France.

★★★, Alexa Dalby, BFI London Film Festival 2024, BFI Player, comedy, Ireland, out now, queer, Reviews, UKApril 3, 2025

★★★☆☆
Loosely based on the gentle, charming Italian 2008 film Mid-August Lunch, a national holiday when cities are deserted, Four Mothers, directed by Darren Thornton, opens out into a broader Irish take on getting old and being gay.

★★★, BFI London Film Festival 2024, Cannes Film Festival 2024, France, out now, queer, ReviewsMarch 27, 2025

Misericordia (2024) (Miséricorde)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
Misericordia by Alain Guiraudie is an entertaining and disturbing mixture of sex and death.

★★★, BFI London Film Festival 2024, BFI Player, documentary, out now, Reviews, UKMarch 27, 2025

The Stimming Pool (2024)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
April is Autism Acceptance Month and Peckhamplex has a special screening of The Stimming Pool, made by The Neurocultures Collective.

★★★, Alexa Dalby, festivals, France, out now, ReviewsMarch 23, 2025

When Autumn Falls (2024) Quand vient l’automne

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
When Autumn Falls by François Ozon is a beguiling mixture of genres, suspense, love and beauty.

Awards, oscars, out now, ReviewsMarch 16, 2025

Oscars Nominations/ Predictions/ Winners etc 2026

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆

Oscars Nominations / Winners 2026

★★★★, BFI London Film Festival 2024, BFI Player, Female Filmmakers, first feature, out now, Reviews, UKMarch 11, 2025

On Falling (2024)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
On Falling, a first feature directed by Laura Carreira, is a worthy addition to the Ken Loach trilogy on Sixteen Films: the lives of people struggling on low-wage or zero-hours contracts.