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Contributor David Jenkins

Festivals

A Traveller’s Needs – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Isabelle Huppert proves she’s one of the great comic performers in this delightfully meandering character piece from Hong Sang-soo.
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Hors de Temps – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Olivier Assayas offers a wistful, meandering and amusingly philosophical exploration of life during the Covid-19 lockdown.
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A Family – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Author and regular Claire Denis collaborator Christine Angot creates a harrowing portrait of a family collectively suppressing its traumas.
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Dahomey – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Mati Diop offers a creative and moving guide to discussing anti-colonialist action in her very fine follow-up to 2019’s Atlantics.
Festivals

L’Empire – first-look review

by David Jenkins

A lunatic piece of sci-fi social realism in which Bruno Dumont brings flying churches and sexed-up aliens to France’s Opal Coast.
Review

Nyad review – a solid, female-fronted sports saga

by David Jenkins

Annette Bening plays the real-life marathon swimmer in this feelgood drama that documents her attempts to cross the Straits of Florida.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
Review

The Taste of Things review – every frame is delectable

by David Jenkins

Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel play late 19th century gourmets in Tran Ahn Hung’s scintillating epic of proto-foodie passions.

4
Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
Review

Bob Marley: One Love review – a low-calorie music bio

by David Jenkins

An ultra-conventional jukebox biog where a celebration of the music trumps a true exploration of the man.

3
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
Review

The Settlers review – a brutally violent anti-western

by David Jenkins

This haunting debut by Felipe Gálvez Haberle dismantles the violent colonial trappings of the classic western.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
Review

American Fiction review – wry literary satire is a mixed bag

by David Jenkins

Jeffrey Wright shines in a bold contemporary arts satire that doesn’t quite manage to hit all of its targets.

4
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect

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