The partner of a celebrated painter needs every shred of her spirit in this anatomising of their exacting relationship.
In dissecting a woman’s affair with her teenage stepson, film-maker Catherine Breillat’s intimate gaze is as lacerating as a scalpel.
An addictive TV show redefines reality for two lonely teens in a fantastic passage that’s impossible to define.
Mads Mikkelsen’s meaningful looks mean business in a soil-tilling drama dug from Danish history.
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.
With Juliette Binoche at the stove, every dish is a star in this dreamy, 19th-century romance.
A quagmire of cross-purposes inside a school is an unsettling lesson in the tenuousness of the structures we build to protect ourselves.
