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17 October 2024

#LFF 2024: It’s Not Me review

★★★★☆ A swift but singular filmmaking self-portrait, Leos Carax’s It’s Not Me reflects on the French auteur’s 40-year directorial career, as well as his many cinematic – and canine – influences.

Daniel Green / London Film Festival

10 October 2024

★★★★☆ Ralph Fiennes approaches top form as a spiritually and morally-conflicted cardinal during a Vatican Conclave in Edward Berger’s gripping, oft-humorous follow-up to the multi-Oscar-winning All Quiet On the Western Front.

Daniel Green / London Film Festival

27 May 2024

Cannes 2024: Sean Baker’s Anora wins Palme d’Or

The 77th Cannes Film Festival concluded with a shift to the new generation. Notable awards went to Sean Baker’s Anora and Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof The Seed of the Sacred Fig.

Cannes / John Bleasdale

Festivals

Locarno 2017: Sparring review

John Bleasdale / Locarno
6 August 2017

★★★☆☆ Premiering at this year’s Locarno International Film Festival, Samuel Jouy’s feature debut Sparring sees Mathieu Kassovitz star as an ageing slugger in a...

Locarno 2017: Person to Person review

John Bleasdale / Locarno
6 August 2017

★★☆☆☆ Multiple New York stories interlace in Salt Lake City-born director Dustin Guy Defa’s Locarno 2017 select Person to Person, an ensemble piece which...

Locarno 2017: Good Manners review

John Bleasdale / Locarno
6 August 2017

★★★☆☆ A beguiling, baffling and occasionally beautiful work which premiered at this year’s Locarno International Film Festival, Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra’s Good Manners...