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Visages Villages – first look review

by David Jenkins

Agnès Varda douses the French landscape with art with the help of her new friend JR in this wonderfully eccentric road movie.
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Let the Sunshine In – first look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

The art of flirting and flirting as art are the subjects of this extraordinary romcom from Claire Denis.
Two people, a woman and a man, sitting together at a piano in a dimly lit room.
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Barbara – first look review

by David Jenkins

A sultry and sensational performance from Jeanne Balibar fuels Mathieu Amalric’s experimental music biopic.
Two women, one with blonde hair and the other with dark hair, wearing pink clothing and holding microphones, surrounded by a crowd in an indoor setting.
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Okja – first look review

by David Jenkins

Meat is murder in Bong Joon-ho’s rollicking fantasy satire about a girl and her pet pig taking on global capitalism.
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Jupiter’s Moon – first look review

by David Jenkins

Christ returns to Earth in the form of a Syrian refugee in Kornél Mundruczó’s overblown B‑movie.
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Wonderstruck – first look review

by David Jenkins

Todd Haynes returns with a kid-friendly follow-up to Carol whose parts are more interesting than the sum total.
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Loveless – first look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

A warring couple reunite to find their missing son in this blunt drama from Leviathan director Andrei Zvyagintsev.
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Ismael’s Ghosts – first look review

by David Jenkins

A bizarre choice of opening film for the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, but also an invigorating and impulsive one too.
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How the films of Jem Cohen reveal the true meaning of independent cinema

by Patrick Gamble

A recent retrospective at the IndieLisboa Film Festival highlighted the need for socially-conscious filmmaking.
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A staggering new film tells the story of faith in America

by Matt Turner

Deborah Stratman’s hour-long documentary The Illinois Parables explores the connection between religion and national identity.