Leave No Trace (2018)
★★★★☆
Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace is a sympathetic, realistic character study of a father and daughter trying to adapt to society after being off grid in a US wilderness.
festivals
L’Amant Double (2017)
★★★☆☆
François Ozon is on quirky erotic form in L’Amant Double, a mystery of psychoanalysis and seduction.
Ismael’s Ghosts (2017)
★★★☆☆
Arnaud Desplechin’s Ismaël’s Ghosts is an abstract, at times melodramatic, interweaving of nightmare, filmmaking, fiction and reality.
Sundance London 2018
★★★★☆
Sundance London 2018: 31 May-3 June
Cannes Film Festival 2018: Prizewinners
Palme d’Or Shoplifters by Hirokazu Kore-eda Grand Prix Spike Lee for BlacKkKlansman Grand Jury Prize Capernaum by Nadine Labaki Special Palme d’Or…
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Cannes Film Festival 2018: Day 12
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2018
Filmworker (2017)
★★★★☆
Tony Zierra’s intriguing Filmworker tells Stanley Kubrick’s assistant Leon Vitali’s story and casts a hitherto-hidden light on the great director and his working methods.
Cannes Film Festival 2018: Day 10
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2018
Cannes Film Festival 2018: Day 8
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2018
On Chesil Beach (2017)
★★★☆☆
On Chesil Beach is a well-acted, sensitive adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novella.
Cannes Film Festival 2018: Day 6
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2018
Cannes Film Festival 2018: Day 5
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2018.
Cannes Film Festival 2018: Day 4
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2018.
Redoubtable (2017)
★★★☆☆
In a timely release for the anniversary of the May 1968 almost-revolution in Paris, Michel Hazanavicius wickedly funny re-invention of Jean-Luc Godard in Redoubtable, as seen though the eyes of Anne Wiazemsky, his second wife.