Clio Barnard

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Ten reasons why Bradford deserves to be 2025’s city of culture
From Charlotte Brontë to David Hockney and Zayn Malik, my home town of Bradford has a rich cultural history – and its beauty is balm for the soul

Saima Mir

02, Jun, 2022 @2:38 PM

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Streaming: Ali & Ava and other great films set in Yorkshire
From Billy Liar to My Summer of Love, the county’s moors and mill towns have been fertile ground for film-makers. Clio Barnard’s Bradford romance is no exception

Guy Lodge

21, May, 2022 @7:00 AM

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What links The Essex Serpent to a brave De Niro impression and a Taylor Swift T-shirt?
As the TV series lands, come down the rabbit hole for a swift visit to Claire Danes, Cannes and Conversations With Friends

Larry Ryan

14, May, 2022 @12:00 PM

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Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo: ‘I’ve never heard us described as an island of joy before!’
Radio’s odd couple take questions from actors, directors and Observer readers about optimism, the films they disagree on – and biscuits

Miranda Sawyer

01, May, 2022 @6:00 AM

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Ali & Ava review – Clio Barnard’s pitch-perfect Bradford love story
Adeel Akhtar and Claire Rushbrook beguile in this tender, funny romance, which also celebrates the city where it’s set

Mark Kermode, Observer film critic

06, Mar, 2022 @8:00 AM

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Clio Barnard on her Bradford love story Ali & Ava: ‘Joy is an act of resistance’
The director of The Arbor and The Selfish Giant returns to her favourite city for her new film. She talks about celebrating lives on the margins and how an ice-rink kiss changed her life

Simon Hattenstone

25, Feb, 2022 @11:00 AM

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Ali & Ava review – Clio Barnard’s Bradford romance is an understated triumph
Adeel Akhtar and Claire Rushbrook embark on a forbidden affair in this charming and heartfelt drama

Peter Bradshaw

11, Jul, 2021 @8:04 AM

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Cannes 2021 week one roundup: saliva tests and strange visions
It’s not the festival as we know it, but despite Covid restrictions there are wild gems from Leos Carax, Joanna Hogg, Todd Haynes and more

Xan Brooks

10, Jul, 2021 @1:00 PM

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Cannes: Joanna Hogg and Clio Barnard to premiere new films in Directors’ Fortnight
Twelve of the 30 film-makers featured in Directors’ Fortnight sidebar are women, compared to four of the 24 in main competition

Andrew Pulver

08, Jun, 2021 @12:33 PM

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Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema review – paean to neglected talent | Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Film-maker and historian of the movies Mark Cousins’ 14-hour survey of amazing but overlooked auteurs is a marvel of passionate cinephilia

Peter Bradshaw

14, May, 2020 @7:00 AM

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The 100 best films of the 21st century
Gangsters, superheroes, schoolkids, lovers, slaves, peasants, techies, Tenenbaums and freefalling astronauts – they’re all here in our countdown of cinema’s best movies since 2000

Peter Bradshaw, Cath Clarke, Andrew Pulver and Catherine Shoard

13, Sep, 2019 @5:00 AM

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Dark River review – a trauma runs through it
Ruth Wilson plays a woman struggling to come to terms with the past following the death of her father

Wendy Ide

25, Feb, 2018 @8:00 AM

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