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Features

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Interviews

Michelangelo Frammartino – ‘The purpose of art is to explore the ineffable’

by Ben Nicholson

The Italian filmmaker on his slow-cooked wonder, Il Buco, and the artistic joys of discovering something new.
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Incoming

The Predator franchise goes back to an uncolonized America in the first Prey trailer

by Charles Bramesco

In the not-yet-ravaged Comanche Nation, an expert hunter faces a seemingly unstoppable extraterrestrial foe.
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Interviews

Lucile Hadžihalilovic: ‘When I make a film, something unconscious comes out’

by Katherine Connell

The French writer/​director of Innocence and Earwig explains why she tells stories from a dream logic perspective.
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Home Ents

Is this Gaspar Noé’s most religious film?

by Anton Bitel

The director’s short experimental feature, Lux Æterna, plays like a panic attack before reaching a rapturous crescendo.
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Interviews

Mia Hansen-Løve: ‘I admire Bergman’s aptitude for being alone’

by David Jenkins

The Bergman Island writer/​director on the Swedish maestro, the inner lives of artists and the process of bringing dreams to life.
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Festivals

Mother and Son – first-look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Léonor Serraille comes good with her novelistic second feature about an immigrant family fighting for survival in France.
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Festivals

Showing Up – first-look review

by Caitlin Quinlan

Michelle Williams excels as a sculptor whose attention is sapped by colleagues and family in Kelly Reichardt’s ambient social satire.
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Festivals

Pacifiction – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Albert Serra returns with an apocalyptic saga set in Tahiti in one of his most accomplished and mature films to date.
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Festivals

Close – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Lukas Dhont’s second feature focuses on the friendship between two boys, and the tragedy that changes the trajectory of their lives.
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Festivals

Broker – first-look review

by Charles Bramesco

A woman who leaves her infant son in a Busan ​“baby box” finds an unexpected family in Hirokazu Koreeda’s tender drama.