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Review

Emmanuelle review – anticlimactic and unerotic

by David Jenkins

Audrey Diwan’s cold take on the infamous erotic softcore French novel leaves a bit too much to be desired.

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Review

Vermiglio review – a hushed yet effectively emotive drama

by Natasha Jagger

Set in 1944, Maura Delpero’s Italian drama presents a complex familial portrait against the backdrop of a remote Alpine village.

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Played for laughs: how cinema still fails male sexual assault survivors

by Mark Carnochan

There is a troubling history of male survivors of sexual assault being treated as a joke in film and television – one writer recounts finding solace in another story.
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Interviews

Jesse Eisenberg: ‘Is our modern pain valid?’

by Darren Richman

The actor and writer/​director of A Real Pain discusses his Polish heritage and the tricky prospect of filming scenes for a comedy drama in a concentration camp.
Truth & Movies - A Little White Lies Podcast
Podcast

Babygirl | Maria + Pablo Larrain | Secretary (2002)

On Truth & Movies this week, we discuss the erotic thrills of Babygirl then review Maria and interview its director Pablo Larrain. Finally, for film club we revisit the kinky classic Secretary.
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Review

Architecton review – taps into the short-order nature of modern construction

by David Jenkins

Viktor Kossakovsky takes us on a journey through the concrete and stone that makes up much of our modern world.

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Review

The Damned review – haunting but disappointing

by Billie Walker

A young widow in an Icelandic fishing village faces difficult decisions in Thordur Pallson’s period folk horror.

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Review

Babygirl review – intelligent, elegant adult filmmaking

by Hannah Strong

Halina Reijn’s psychodrama sees Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson go toe-to-toe as a CEO and an intern who become embroiled in a complex illicit affair.

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Review

Maria review – a tender eulogy for a remarkable talent

by Hannah Strong

Angelina Jolie has never been better as the legendary opera singer Maria Callas, captured in the final week of her life by Pablo Larraín’s elegant biographical drama.

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Review

The Girl With The Needle review – politically pertinent Gothic horror story

by David Jenkins

Magnus von Horn brings subtlety and empathy to the serial killer genre in this extraordinary true-life yarn.

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