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The Other Side of Hope – first look review

by David Jenkins

Finland’s Aki Kaurismäki lights up the Berlin competition with a typically bittersweet response to the migrant crisis.
A woman with long dark hair wearing a gold-and-black corset-style top and a long black skirt, standing in a room with furnishings and a mirror.
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The Queen of Spain – first look review

by Adam Lee Davies

Penélope Cruz stars in this frolicsome love letter to Spanish cinema’s golden age from director Fernando Trueba.
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The Party – first look review

by Adam Lee Davies

Pseudo-intellectual pontificating abounds in Sally Potter’s brisk middle class comedy.
Indistinct dark shapes and muted warm tones.
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Somniloquies – first look review

by David Jenkins

The directors of Leviathan return with a breathtaking character study of the world’s foremost sleep talker.
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Spoor – first look review

by David Jenkins

Polish director Agnieszka Holland returns with an enigmatic woodland-set murder mystery.
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A Fantastic Woman – first look review

by David Jenkins

Sebastián Lelio’s follow up to 2013’s Gloria is a surprisingly inert and cliché-driven portrait of a trans woman.
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Final Portrait – first look review

by Adam Lee Davies

Stanley Tucci returns behind the camera for this slight, satisfying chamber drama on the process of artistic creation.
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Django – first look review

by Adam Lee Davies

A nimble-fingered movie biopic of the ace guitar picker who entertained the Nazis opens the 2017 Berlinale.
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The Dinner – first look review

by Adam Lee Davies

Cinema dictates that movie dinner dates are supposed to go bad. This Berlinale competition entry carries on that tradition.
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Wild Mouse – first look review

by David Jenkins

Josef Hader’s mid-life meltdown comedy has just enough madcap laughs for it to pass muster.