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★★★★, Female Filmmakers, festivals, out now, Reviews, Switzerland

Locarno Film Festival 2023

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Locarno Film Festival 2023

★★★, Cannes Film Festival 2022, comedy, France, out now, Picturehouse, Reviews

Smoking Causes Coughing (2022) (Fumer Fait Tousser)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
Smoking Causes Coughing, the brainchild of über-absurdist Quentin Dupieux, is bizarre, very, very silly, strangely disquieting and rather flimsy.

festivals, Reviews, Sundance London 2023

Sundance Film Festival London 2023 – 6-9 July

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Sundance London 2023

★★★★, Cannes Film Festival 2022, Female Filmmakers, France, out now, Picturehouse, Reviews

Mother and Son (2022) (Un Petit Frère)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Mother and Son is an ★★★★☆
involving, compassionate film by Léonor Serraille that poignantly shows the difficulties and the effects on a family – both positive and negative – of immigration into a strange country.

★★★★, biopic, festivals, France, Germany, out now, Picturehouse, Reviews

La Syndicaliste (2022)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Isabelle Huppert stars in Jean-Paul Salomé’s thriller and nuclear-industry investigation La Syndicaliste, based on the recent true story of French union official Maureen Kearney.

★★★★, Female Filmmakers, out now, Reviews, Sundance, USA

Reality (2023)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
25-year-old former American intelligence specialist Reality Winner is confronted by FBI agents arriving at her home. Based on true events, Tina Satter’s film’s dialogue is directly from the transcript of their tense, transfixing conversation.