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★★★★, Berlin Film Festival 2018, Brazil, festivals, France, Germany, Norway, Paraguay, Reviews, UruguayAugust 8, 2018

The Heiresses/Las Herederas (2018)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Economically crumbling Paraguay after many years of patriarchal dictatorship is the setting for a subtle story of female self-discovery in Marcelo Martinessi’s The Heiresses.

★★★, Belgium, France, London Film Festival 2017, Reviews, SwitzerlandJuly 14, 2018

Racer and the Jailbird

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Xavier Beauvois’ The Racer and the Jailbird stars Adèle Exarchopoulos and Matthias Schoenaerts in an intense, high-speed love affair.

★★★★, Brazil, Cannes Film Festival 2017, festivals, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, USAJune 15, 2018

★★★★☆
The Ciambra is an extraordinary first feature by Jonas Carpignano, a follow-up to Mediterraneo, that has ordinary people, non-professional actors, playing fictionalised versions of themselves in a reality-rooted drama.

★★★, Belgium, France, London Film Festival 2017May 31, 2018

L’Amant Double (2017)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
François Ozon is on quirky erotic form in L’Amant Double, a mystery of psychoanalysis and seduction.

★★★, Cannes Film Festival 2017, FranceMay 31, 2018

Ismael’s Ghosts (2017)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
Arnaud Desplechin’s Ismaël’s Ghosts is an abstract, at times melodramatic, interweaving of nightmare, filmmaking, fiction and reality.

Argentina, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Female Filmmakers, France, Lebanon, Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland, USAMay 25, 2018

Zama (2017)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
In Lucrecia Martel’s hallucinatory, dreamlike, absurdist Zama, Spanish colonialists take on South America and lose.