The deranged ultra-violence goes to town and back.

Lives unlived are the bittersweet seam of a romance revisited 15 years too late.

This saga of abuse takes its uphill time, but its bittersweet payoff is everything.

In dissecting a woman’s affair with her teenage stepson, film-maker Catherine Breillat’s intimate gaze is as lacerating as a scalpel.

Laure Calamy makes adultery look almost adorable.

Mads Mikkelsen’s meaningful looks mean business in a soil-tilling drama dug from Danish history.

Inspired by an actual teacher, film-maker Christopher Zalla’s blast of sunshine leans heavily on earnest overdrive.

The umpteenth adaptation of an 180-year-old classic is rife with machismo writ large.

A shambolic household takes shape as a family in a trial by fire all the sweeter for its transformative heat.

Director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s practised unpacking of the relativity of truth is cinematic origami.