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Disco Boy review – a bold yet banal character study

By Marina Ashioti

Two men in search of a better life meet by chance in the Niger Delta – one in the French Foreign Legion, the other a revolutionary with dreams of becoming a dancer.

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Passages review – a tantalising romantic car-crash

By David Jenkins

Ira Sachs returns with an intimate, intense three-hander about a Fassbinder-like film director played by the great Franz Rogowski.

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Disco Boy – first-look review

By Marina Ashioti

The stories of a French Foreign Legionnaire and a Nigerian guerrilla fighter converge in Giacomo Abbruzzese’s frustrating feature debut.

Passages – first-look review

By David Jenkins

Ira Sachs returns with an intimate, intense three-hander about a Fassbinder-like film director played by the great Franz Rogowski.

Great Freedom

By Lillian Crawford

Sebastian Meise’s profoundly sensual second feature is anchored by a standout performance from Franz Rogowski.

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Franz Rogowski: ‘It was a gift to not have to explain it all through words’

By Elena Lazic

The beguiling star of Sebastian Meise’s Great Freedom reflects on his career so far and the future of cinema.

Ira Sachs’ next film will focus on a queer love triangle of European festival darlings

By Charles Bramesco

Franz Rogowski and Ben Whishaw play lovers driven apart when one of them has an affair with Adèle Exarchopoulos.

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