Contributions from Hannah Strong | Little White Lies

Contributor Hannah Strong

Hannah Strong is the Digital Editor at Little White Lies, and a culture critic just about everywhere. She is the author of Sofia Coppola: Forever Young and The Colours of Wes Anderson. Her third book, Yorgos Lanthimos: The Modern Prometheus, will be released in 2026.

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Festivals

Resurrection – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Bi Gan’s third fea­ture is an epic in every sense of the word, tak­ing view­ers on a sprawl­ing odyssey through cinema.
Man in a flat cap, wearing a brown coat, standing in a snowy street next to a parked car.
Festivals

The Mastermind – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

An art theft spells dis­as­ter for Josh O’Con­nor in Kel­ly Reichardt’s excel­lent Viet­nam-era heist dramedy.
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Interviews

Wes Anderson: ‘You’re hoping for the right accident’

by Hannah Strong

We speak to the mas­ter­mind behind The Phoeni­cian Scheme about fam­i­ly, fathers-in-law, and the great, grand plan of all things Wes Anderson.
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Festivals

Love on Trial – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

A young J‑pop singer must choose between love and star­dom in Koji Fukada’s gen­tle roman­tic drama.
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Festivals

Sorry, Baby – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

A bril­liant young aca­d­e­m­ic strug­gles to come to terms with the after­math of a sex­u­al assault in Eva Vic­tor’s mov­ing dramedy.
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Festivals

Sentimental Value – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Renate Reinsve plays an actress strug­gling with the sud­den return of her estranged father in Joachim Tri­er’s lat­est drama.
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Festivals

The History of Sound – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Two musi­cians set out to record the folk songs of rur­al Amer­i­ca in Oliv­er Her­manus’ restrained but affect­ing drama.
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Festivals

Eleanor the Great – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

June Squibb plays a spir­it­ed nona­ge­nar­i­an who moves back to New York from Flori­da in Scar­lett Johansson’s under­whelmed direc­to­r­i­al debut.
Four people, two men and two women, standing on wooden steps outdoors.
Festivals

Splitsville – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Two cou­ples find them­selves caught up in a love quad­ran­gle after one of them sep­a­rate in Michael Ange­lo Covi­no’s roman­tic comedy.
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Festivals

Alpha – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Return­ing to Cannes after win­ning the Palme d’Or for Titane, Julia Ducour­nau shifts gears with a unique dra­ma inspired by the AIDS crisis.
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Festivals

Die, My Love – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Lynne Ram­say finds a kin­dred spir­it in Jen­nifer Lawrence, join­ing forces for a blis­ter­ing por­trait of a woman on the verge of a ner­vous breakdown.
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Festivals

Pillion – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

A meek young traf­fic war­den embarks on a sex­u­al odyssey with a tac­i­turn bik­er in Har­ry Lighton’s loose adap­ta­tion of Adam Mars-Jones’ Box Hill.