Sebastián Lelio

Sebastián Lelio: ‘We need better stories if we want to have better societies’

By Marina Ashioti

The Chilean director on the very contemporary political and philosophical questions at the core of literary period piece, The Wonder.

The Wonder

By Lillian Crawford

Sebastián Lelio’s 19th-century drama dwells in the gothic-bucolic as a nurse watches over a girl who has survived months without food.

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The full 2022 BFI London Film Festival line-up has been announced

By Marina Ashioti

From Glass Onion to Decision to Leave, this year’s cinematic bonanza is packed to the gills with discovery and delight.

Take a first look at Florence Pugh in period piece The Wonder

By Charles Bramesco

She’s headed to 19th-century Ireland for director Sebastián Lelio’s medical-intrigue drama.

Gloria Bell

By Ella Kemp

Julianne Moore plays a divorcé stepping to her own beat in Sebastián Lelio’s remake of his 2013 drama.

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Girl, A Fantastic Woman and cinema’s difficult period of transition

By Lillian Crawford

How the language we use to talk about art which explores subjects of gender and identity can evolve.

Sebastián Lelio: ‘We approached it as if we were secretly making a sci-fi movie’

By Carlos Aguilar

The Chilean filmmaker discusses working with Rachel McAdams and Rachel Weisz on his English-language debut Disobedience.

Disobedience

By David Jenkins

Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams are unable to lift this hackneyed tale of forbidden love.

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The best films from the Transilvania International Film Festival 2018

By Patrick Gamble

This year’s festival offered liberating explorations of identity in Adina Pintilie’s Touch Me Not and Sebastián Lelio’s Disobedience.

Daniela Vega: ‘Trans people have existed for as long as humans have’

By Phil Concannon

The Chilean star of Sebastián Lelio’s A Fantastic Woman offers her take on the film’s powerful message.

A Fantastic Woman

By Hannah Strong

A star is born in Sebastián Lelio’s drama about a trans woman coming to terms with the death of her partner.

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Gloria

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

This burnished gem from Chile is a rich and poetic character study of a woman on the look out for love.

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