Kicking off this year’s series in which our writers advocate for one Academy Award nominee, our chief critic on why the Brazilian drama-thriller is the most audacious and fully realised film in the r…
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I Only Rest in the Storm review – beguiling postcolonial blues in Guinea-Bissau ⊕
A disaffected Portuguese NGO worker dallies with a drag queen as he wrestles with white man’s privilege in Pedro Pinho’s intelligent drama
‘What disgusts me the most are good men,” says a Bissau-Guine…
7 months ago
La Grazia review – Paolo Sorrentino opens mighty window on Italian leader’s despair ○
The director has rediscovered his voice working again with actor Toni Servillo, who plays a president looking back on a career of empty rectitude
Paolo Sorrentino has rediscovered his voice, his wan h…
9 months ago
Mark Peploe, Oscar-winning scriptwriter of The Last Emperor, dies aged 82 ○
Screenwriter, whose 1987 collaboration with Bernardo Bertolucci won nine Oscars, was also known for The Passenger directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
Mark Peploe, the Oscar-winning screenwriter who col…
10 months ago
The Secret Agent review – brilliant Brazilian drama of an academic on the run in the murderous 1970s ○
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Kleber Mendonça Filho’s study of a man attempting to escape corrupt politics is a tremendous, novelistic study of corruption in high and low places
Director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s…
13 months ago
Nikt Nie Woła (Nobody’s Calling) review – hypnotic passions in postwar Poland ○
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A mysterious stranger arrives in a small town in western Poland soon after the second world war, and embarks on a string of messy, equally enigmatic affairs
This cult 1960 Polish film is a political a…
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