MOVIE
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The Birthday Party – first-look review
Though The Birthday Party marks the first time Léa Mysius has directed a film in contention for the festival’s Palme d’Or, the…
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Everytime – first-look review | Little White Lies
An unthinkable tragedy binds together Ella (Birgit Minichmayr), her daughter Melli (Lotte Shirin Keiling) and Lux (Tristan Lopez). He’s the…
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Ben’Imana – first-look review | Little White Lies
The aftermath of an atrocity is a compelling place to start a story, not least because it foreshadows the next set of…
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Hope – first-look review | Little White Lies
For all of the rip-roaring set pieces in Na Hong-jin’s creature feature Hope, there’s a scene at the halfway point that encapsulates…
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Atonement – first-look review | Little White Lies
In 2012, just under a year after the end of the Second Gulf War, New Yorker staff writer Dexter Filkins wrote…
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Paper Tiger – first-look review
When Uncle Gary (Adam Driver) arrives at his brother’s family home in Queens, it’s in a shiny black Mercedes with a fleet…
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Dua – first-look review | Little White Lies
Kids should be able to experience the vital rite of passage that is puberty without a war raging in the background…
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A Woman’s Life – first-look review
Of all the qualities of adulthood, one line from the torch-poem ‘If’ by Rudyard Kipling permeates the second feature by…
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Romería review – beautifully captures the…
In her Golden Bear-winning Alcarrás, Carla Simón meets a family standing on the brink of a monumental life change, chronicling the minutia…
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Kokuho review – a kabuki star is born
Within a short time of being introduced to the budding kabuki performer at the centre of Lee Sang-il’s hit Japanese film…
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