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★★★★, Black filmmakers, Cannes Film Festival 2019, France, out now, ReviewsAugust 31, 2020

Les Misérables (2019)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Les Misérables is an explosive first feature about simmering racial tensions in a Paris banlieu from Malian-French actor and director Ladj Ly.

★★★, Drama, London Film Festival 2019, out now, Reviews, UKAugust 28, 2020

Hope Gap (2019) – Streaming

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
William Nicholson’s Hope Gap benefits from a starry cast in the stagey story of the death of love in a middle-aged, middle-class marriage on the South Coast.

★★★★, documentary, Reviews, Sundance London 2019, USAAugust 21, 2020

The Brink (2019) – ON DEMAND

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Alison Klayman’s The Brink is a must-see documentary following dangerous eminence grise Steve Bannon over the crucial period of the US midterms and the EU elections.

★★★, Curzon Home Cinema, France, out now, romanceAugust 21, 2020

Perfumes (2019) (Les parfums)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
Charmingly fragrant, very French not-exactly romcom Perfumes by Grégory Magne stars Emmanuelle Devos and Grégory Montel as the autumnal odd-couple.

Canada, Female Filmmakers, Iran, Iran, out now, QatarAugust 20, 2020

Ava (2017)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Ava is an unforgiving, unforgettable coming-of-age film about a teenage girl’s loss of freedom in Iran from a compelling new filmmaker, Sadaf Foroughi.

★★★★, Australia, London Film Festival 2019, out now, Reviews, Venice Biennale 2019, Women FilmmakersAugust 14, 2020

Babyteeth (2019)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Babyteeth is a vivid new take on coming-of-age directed by Shannon Murphy from a script that Rita Kalnejais adapted from her play of the same title.

★★★★, France, Italy, out now, Reviews, UKAugust 13, 2020

Pinocchio (2020)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Matteo Garrone’s surreal live-action fantasy takes the Italian classic Pinocchio disturbingly back to its original dark roots.

★★★★, Algeria, Belgium, Cannes Film Festival 2019, Female Filmmakers, France, out now, Qatar, ReviewsAugust 7, 2020

Papicha (2019) ON DEMAND

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Papicha is a stunning female-centred drama freely inspired, its director Mounia Meddour says, by real events in Algeria in the 1990s.

★★★★★, art, out now, Reviews, UK, USAJuly 28, 2020

Andy Warhol Exhibition 2020

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Major retrospective at Tate Modern with a new look at the extraordinary life and work of Andy Warhol, the pop art superstar.

★★★★, Curzon Home Cinema, Female Filmmakers, London Film Festival 2019, out now, queer, UK, Women FilmmakersJuly 26, 2020

Make Up (2019) – in cinemas and on demand. Online Q&A 3 August

By Alexa Dalby

Make Up is an original coming-of-age horror/drama by first-time director Claire Oakley.

★★★★, Female Filmmakers, France, Germany, out now, Reviews, sci-fiJuly 26, 2020

★★★★☆
The superbly focused French female astronaut in woman-centred Proxima directed by Anna Winocour is torn apart by the conflict between needing freedom to achieve and the pain of separation from her daughter.