Zambia-born, Cardiff-raised director Rungano Nyoni discusses her first feature I Am Not a Witch, which tackles patriarchal constraints on women in Zambia, and …
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Elena Lazic’s Cannes 2017 Diary: tweets and more
My Cannes 2017 diary: Twitter reactions, reviews, and interviews about the films I saw in Cannes, covering the festival for @SeventhRow. I did not tweet about …
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Interview: Atsuko Hirayanagi on her female midlife crisis comedy Oh Lucy!
A film starring Josh Hartnett presented in Critics’ Week was always going to attract our attention. Oh Lucy!, directed by first-time filmmaker Atsuko …
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Interview: Chloé Zhao on The Rider, her feminist film about masculinity
Winner of the top prize at Directors’ Fortnight, Chloé Zhao’s The Rider follows a young cowboy, Brady Blackburn (Brady Jandreau), forced to reconsider his …
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Marcela Said on Los Perros: ‘As women, we take risks that men do not take.’
Presented in Critics’ Week, Chilean director Marcela Said’s Los Perros is part of a welcome resurgence of political films at the Cannes Film Festival. …
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Review: In Marcela Said’s Los Perros, the personal is political
Los Perros fearlessly reveals the dilemma for women forced to choose between a desire to do whatever they want, and a desire to be recognised as political …
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That is not what I meant at all: Claire Denis’ Bright Sunshine In (Un Beau Soleil Intérieur)
Opening the Director’s Fortnight this year, Bright Sunshine In (Un Beau Soleil Intérieur) is an often disarming but always exciting new film from the French …
Review: Close-Knit marks an important milestone for Japanese LGBTQ cinema
Naoko Ogigami's Close-Knit is a charming, if disappointingly conservative, family drama about a girl who finds herself being raised by a transgender woman. …
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Interview: Hope Dickson Leach discusses her astonishing debut The Levelling
One of the highlights of last year's TIFF, The Levelling announces a new talent on the film scene in writer-director Hope Dickson Leach. She talks to Elena …
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Review: A Fantastic Woman was one of the best of the Berlinale
Sebastián Lelio's A Fantastic Woman follows a grieving transgender widow who fights for her right to be respectfully treated as a person in mourning. …
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