Cannes 2022
The Eight Mountains review – a movie with air in its lungs and love in its heart
A meditation on our capacity for love shapes this sweeping story of two friends, torn apart by family and life’s journeys but bound by something deeper
Peter Bradshaw
10, May, 2023 @9:35 AM
The Dam review – eerie, hallucinatory tale of Sudan on the brink
During the buildup to Omar al-Bashir’s ousting, an exploited manual worker at the Merowe dam develops a strange supernatural life
Peter Bradshaw
08, May, 2023 @6:00 AM
Close review – a heartbreaking tale of boyhood friendship turned sour
When two 13-year-olds are no longer close, the fallout is unbearably sad, in Lukas Dhont’s anguished second feature
Peter Bradshaw
01, Mar, 2023 @11:40 AM
‘I’d love to do a queer Titanic! Well, a queerer one!’ Director and Oscar contender Lukas Dhont
Bullied at school for his dance routine to Christina Aguilera’s Fighter, he turned to film, making zombie horrors starring his family. Now Close, his movie about a teen friendship turned sour, is up for an Oscar
Ryan Gilbey
01, Mar, 2023 @6:00 AM
Saim Sadiq on his banned trans love story, Joyland: ‘We spend our lives trying to hide our desires’
The director’s debut won the Cannes Jury prize, yet was denounced in his native Pakistan. He discusses masculinity, religious censorship and challenging the patriarchy
Sarfraz Manzoor
24, Feb, 2023 @8:00 AM
Broker review – Kore-eda gets the tone all wrong in sudsy Korean baby adoption tale
The director of Shoplifters shows naivety in trying to turn two baby kidnappers into lovable rogues. Even Parasite’s Song Kang-ho can’t make it stick
Peter Bradshaw
23, Feb, 2023 @9:17 AM
Joyland review – subtle trans drama from Pakistan is remarkable debut
Saim Sadiq’s film explores the unsettled social and sexual identities of a widower and his children with delicacy and tenderness
Peter Bradshaw
22, Feb, 2023 @9:00 AM
EO review – an innocent donkey leads the way in surreal Bresson-inspired ride
Life is seen through the eyes of a put-upon beast of burden in this beautifully photographed homage to Au Hasard Balthazar by the veteran Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski
Peter Bradshaw
01, Feb, 2023 @4:24 PM
Zar Amir Ebrahimi: ‘If you lose everything, it’s easier to rise up’
Forced to leave Iran after an intimate video of her was leaked, Ebrahimi has rebuilt her career. Her latest film, for which she won best actress at Cannes, celebrates the defiance of women in her home country
Emma Graham-Harrison
20, Jan, 2023 @11:00 AM
Holy Spider review – Iranian crime thriller takes real case and makes it implausible
Twenty years after a serial killer murdered 16 sex workers in Mashad, Ali Abbasi has made a fictionalised account of his capture and trial
Peter Bradshaw
18, Jan, 2023 @4:55 PM
Corsage review – a cry of anger from the pedestal-prison of an empress
Vicky Krieps puts in a star turn as lonely, patronised Elisabeth of Austria in Marie Kreutzer’s austere drama
Peter Bradshaw
20, Dec, 2022 @11:01 AM
The Silent Twins review – powerful story of Welsh sisters in a world of their own
Agnieszka Smoczyńska directs this well-acted, disturbing drama about June and Jennifer Gibbons, whose shared isolation ended in criminal acts
Peter Bradshaw
09, Dec, 2022 @10:37 AM
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