Education, the final film in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology, explores systemic racism in the British schooling system and the West Indian women who organised to combat it.
Essays
All About Eve at 70: A closeup on Joseph Mankiewicz’s classic and its stage adaptation
On the 70th anniversary of Joseph Mankiewicz’s All About Eve, we dissect why Ivo Van Hove’s recent stage revival, and its attempts to be ‘cinematic’, pales in comparison.
Guillaume Canet shines in Au nom de la terre (In the Name of the Land)
Au nom de la terre (In the Name of the Land) tracks farmer Pierre Jareau as he struggles with increasingly crippling debt and his mental health declines.
Helicopter parenting reaches new extremes in Chasing Childhood
In Margaret Munzer Loeb and Eden Wurmfeld’s documentary Chasing Childhood, American parents navigate how much freedom to give their children.
Anne Fontaine’s psychological drama Night Shift (Police)
Night Shift looks at the inner lives of three police officers who take the night shift together. The film screens at Cinemania across Canada on Nov 22. Tickets are available here.
Antoinette dans les Cévennes is a showcase for Laure Calamy
Caroline Vignal’s Antoinette dans les Cévennes is a mid-life coming-of-age comedy starring the great Laure Calamy.