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★★★★, France, London Film Festival 2017June 13, 2019

A Season in France (2017)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
A Season in France is Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s moving film focusing on the plight of a father and his family, asylum seekers in the grip of hostile bureaucracy.

★★★★★, France, Hungary, London Film Festival 2018May 27, 2019

Sunset (2018)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Sunset (Napszállt) by László Nemes is must-see, tour de force, immersive filmmaking that captures a chaotic watershed in 20th century European history.

Canada, France, Germany, Palestine, Qatar, Reviews, TurkeyMay 24, 2019

Cannes Film Festival 2019: Day 11

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2019: Day 11

★★★★, Cannes Film Festival 2019, festivals, France, Reviews, USAMay 22, 2019

Cannes Film Festival 2019: Day 9

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2019: Day 9

Cannes Film Festival 2019, festivals, France, Korea, Reviews, USAMay 21, 2019

Cannes Film Festival 2019: Day 8

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2019: Day 8

China, France, ReviewsMay 18, 2019

Cannes Film Festival 2019: Day 5

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2019: Day 5

★★★★, Cannes Film Festival 2019, UKMay 17, 2019

Cannes Film Festival: Sorry We Missed You (2019)

By Alexa Dalby

Sorry We Missed you is a coruscating anti-capitalist manifesto from veteran politically engaged filmmaker Ken Loach and his longtime collaborator and screenwriter Paul Laverty.

★★★★, Cannes Film Festival 2019, France, Reviews, SenegalMay 16, 2019

Cannes Film Festival: Atlantiques (Atlantics) (2019)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Atlantics (Atlantiques) is Mati Diop’s dreamlike feature debut focusing on the women left behind when Senegalese migrant workers take to the seas.

★★★★, art, biopic, France, Ireland, Reviews, Switzerland, UK, USAMarch 27, 2019

At Eternity’s Gate (2018)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Willem Dafoe stunningly inhabits the outer shell of tormented artist Vincent Van Gogh in Julian Schnabel’s disturbing, arty biopic At Eternity’s Gate.

★★★★★, art, Cannes Film Festival 2018, Female Filmmakers, France, ReviewsSeptember 21, 2018

Faces Places (Visages Villages) 2017

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Legendary filmmaker Agnes Varda teams up with photographer JR in a charming creative road trip around France that celebrates the extraordinariness of ordinary people and the power of the imagination.

★★★★, Cannes Film Festival 2018, France, ReviewsSeptember 19, 2018

Climax

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Gaspar Noé’s hallucinogenic Climax is as hard core as its bad trip.

★★★★, France, London Film Festival 2017August 16, 2018

The Guardians (2017)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Xavier Beauvois’ The Guardians Les Guardiennes is a beautiful period recreation of a time of change for women and society in rural France during the First World War.