Posts tagged with "2023"



Out of Season (‘Hors-Saison’)
Lives unlived are the bittersweet seam of a romance revisited 15 years too late.

There’s Still Tomorrow (‘C’è Ancora Domani’)
This saga of abuse takes its uphill time, but its bittersweet payoff is everything.

Last Summer (‘L’Été Dernier’)
In dissecting a woman’s affair with her teenage stepson, film-maker Catherine Breillat’s intimate gaze is as lacerating as a scalpel.

Iris and the Men (‘It’s Raining Men’) (‘Iris et les Hommes’)

The Promised Land (‘Bastarden’)
Mads Mikkelsen’s meaningful looks mean business in a soil-tilling drama dug from Danish history.

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

The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan (‘Les Trois Mousquetaires: D’Artagnan’)
The umpteenth adaptation of an 180-year-old classic is rife with machismo writ large.

Housekeeping for Beginners (‘Domakinstvo za Pocetnici’)
A shambolic household takes shape as a family in a trial by fire all the sweeter for its transformative heat.

Monster  (‘Kaibutsu’)
Director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s practised unpacking of the relativity of truth is cinematic origami.

The Taste of Things (‘La Passion de Dodin Bouffant’)
With Juliette Binoche at the stove, every dish is a star in this dreamy, 19th-century romance.

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