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World cinema

March 2025

  • Film still: Satu: Year of the Rabbit (2025) written and directed by Joshua Trigg

    Satu – Year of the Rabbit review – scene-stealing runaways on picturesque road trip across Laos

  • Yorgos Tsiantoulas, right, and Andreas Labropoulos in The Summer With Carmen.

    The Summer With Carmen review – crisply observed Greek film-making comedy

February 2025

  • Film-maker and screenwriter François Ozon.

    The reader interview
    Post your questions for François Ozon

  • Fernanda Torres as Eunice Paiva in I'm Still Here.

    I’m Still Here review – wrenching true-life saga of a Brazilian family torn apart by military rule

  • ‘People weren’t ready for it’ … Clément in Meetings With Anna, directed by Chantal Akerman.

    ‘They wanted to attack me’: Aurore Clément on violent premieres and smuggling bananas for Brando

  • Film still: Ari Country: FRA, BEL 2025 Director: Léonor Serraille Photo description: Andranic Manet Section: Competition 2025 Berlin Film festival 2025 © Geko Films - Blue Monday Productions - ARTE France - PICTANOVO - Wrong Men - 2025

    Ari review – a French primary teacher flunks out in daydreaming misfire

  • Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles review – sex, secrets and the unbearable silence of loneliness

  • Shanghai Blues review – delirious screwball comedy from Hong Kong’s Spielberg

  • By the Stream review – gentle college comedy of manners from Hong Sang-soo

January 2025

  • Vintage comedy … Bernard Campan and Isabelle Carré in The Tasting.

    The Tasting review – French midlife romcom takes its leads guzzling fine wines

  • Caretaker Abdul Nabi Al Afi dwarfed by the Roman Baalbek megalith in Lebanon, the second largest cut stone in the world.

    Architecton review – poetic study of humankind’s bricks-and-mortar impact on the Earth

  • Laure Calamy in It's Raining Men.

    It’s Raining Men review – Laure Calamy adultery comedy puts the heat in cheat

  • Renato Salvatori, Alain Delon and Corrado Pani in Rocco and Hos Brothers.

    Rocco and His Brothers review – Luchino Visconti’s operatically magnificent family epic

December 2024

  • Brooding … Erik Lubos and friend in Diabel.

    Diabel review – canine sidekick along for ride as dour war veteran biffs bad guys

  • how to make millions before grandma dies, 2024 film still

    How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies review – tear-jerking Oscar contender from Thailand

  • Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian in Love Lies Bleeding

    2024 in Culture
    And the 2024 Braddies go to … Peter Bradshaw’s film picks of the year

  • The young man kneels to help his grandmother out with something, in her kitchen

    How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies review – sad but sweet Thai inheritance tale

  • The Universal Theory review – beautiful, wigged-out German multiverse mystery

  • Sujo review – slow-burning Mexican drug cartel drama

  • Sujo review – Mexican coming-of-age drama in the shadow of a cartel killing

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