You Were Never Really Here traps us inside hitman Joe’s mind — but he’s an unreliable narrator who is far more helpless than he realises. This is the sixth feature in our Special Issue on You Were Never Really Here.
Directed by Women
Explore films by directors who identify as women.
Sally Potter’s The Party is a dynamic, witty ensemble film
The premise of The Party — seven characters trapped in a house, for 71 minutes, as secrets are revealed and lives potentially irreparably changed — sounds like a play, but Sally Potter tells the story in a uniquely cinematic way.
Agnès Varda’s Faces Places re-sensitizes us to the internet
In her new documentary, Faces Places, French New Wave director Agnès Varda interrogates the boundary between the internet and real life — an interest that is reflected in Varda’s personal Instagram.
Summer 1993 captures how children process grief
Carla Simón’s outstanding debut feature, Summer 1993, chosen as Spain’s 2018 Foreign Language Oscar submission, explores the contradictory ways in which six-year-old Frida processes the deaths of her parents.
Sisterhood is the saviour in Julia Ducournau’s humanist Raw
In this essay, Orla Smith explores how Raw is as much about the experiences of her sister, Alex (Ella Rumpf), and their relationship — which saves Justine.
Review: Grace and violence mingle in The Beguiled
In Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled, violence erupts in Miss Martha’s seminary, poorly-defended citadel of virtue, but the women never lose their poise.