Azor (2021)
★★★★☆
Azor, Andra Fontana’s subtle, sophisticated feature debut, unsettles with an increasing sense of dread as a Swiss banker is enveloped in the Argentinian junta’s heart of darkness.
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BFI LFF 2021: Azor (2021)
★★★★☆
Azor, Andra Fontana’s subtle, sophisticated feature debut, unsettles with an increasing sense of dread as a Swiss banker is enveloped in the Argentinian junta’s heart of darkness.
Cannes Film Festival Day 9: Titane
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2021 Day 9: Titane
Cannes Film Festival 2021 Day 10
★★★★★
Cannes 2021 Day 10: Les Olympiades, Memoria, France./
Cannes Film Festival 2021 Day 7: Neptune Frost (2021) and Mes Frères et Moi (2021)
★★★★☆
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Deerskin (2019)
★★★★☆
Deerskin (Le Daim) by Quentin Dupieux is an oddball, quirky black comedy about a suede jacket with killer propensities.
Cannes Film Festival 2021 Day 2: Tout S’Est Bien Passé (Everything Went Fine) 2021
★★★★☆
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Cannes Film Festival 2021: Opening Film: Annette (2021)
★★★★☆
strong>Annette by cult director Leos Carax opens the Cannes Film Festival – what the critics say…
It Must Be Heaven (2019)
★★★★☆
It Must Be Heaven continues Elia Suleiman’s deadpan global quest for recognition of Palestinian identity and homeland.
Frankie (2019)
★★★☆☆
In Frankie, written and directed by Ira Sachs, Isabelle Huppert stars in an ensemble piece that illuminates a terminally ill actress’s final attempts to control the tangled relationships of her extended family.
Undine (2020) – on demand
★★★★☆
Undine by Christian Petzold is a strange, otherworldly, watery romance with unsettling depths.
Notturno (2020) – on demand
★★★★☆
Filmed over three years in war zones in Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria and Lebanon, Notturno (Nocturne) by Gianfranco Rosi is a documentary oddity.
Proxima (2019) – On demand
★★★★☆
The French female astronaut in woman-centred Proxima, directed by Anna Winocour, is torn apart by the conflict between needing the freedom to achieve and the pain of separation from her daughter.
La Haine (1995) – new 4K restoration
★★★★★
Mathieu Kassovitz’s La Haine remastered remains a ticking bomb, full of seething energy ready to explode.