Sex work as a window into human nature is a longstanding theme in cinema, from Kenji Mizoguchi’s Street of Shame to Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman,
Category: Films
The full comté: quest to make a semi-hard cheese is French cinema’s breakout hit of the year
Louise Courvoisier grew up the daughter of farmers in France’s eastern Jura region and, by the time she was 15, was desperate to leave this
Help! Why are none of the new Beatles cast from Liverpool? | Peter Bradshaw
Sam Mendes has announced the cast for his colossal four-film Beatles extravaganza: Harris Dickinson as John, Paul Mescal as Paul, Barry Keoghan as Ringo and
Sylvanian Families: The Movie review – bunny goes looking for gift in danger-free kids story
In the very first scene of this film, a woman (well, a female bunny rabbit), broom in hand, sings happily as she sweeps the kitchen
The Most Precious of Cargoes review – postmodern Holocaust fairytale is dreamy curiosity
Directed by Michel Hazanavicius, this postmodern Holocaust fairytale premiered at Cannes last year, and turns out to be a dreamy animated curiosity which is certainly
The Beatles: actors playing the Fab Four in Sam Mendes’ biopics announced
The cast of Sam Mendes’ four upcoming Beatles biopics has been officially announced, with Harris Dickinson playing John Lennon, Paul Mescal playing Paul McCartney, Barry
Screamboat review – rodent IP horror sends Mickey Mouse on a ferry rampage
Here’s another draining bout of horror opportunism, spawned in this instance by the copyright expiring on Disney’s Steamboat Willie, the 1928 landmark animation that launched
Living Together review – how Austrians teach immigrants to find their place in society
Thomas Fürhapter’s documentary sheds light on the challenges of adjusting to a new culture as it follows a series of “integration classes” offered to immigrants
James Bond should not be a woman due to franchise’s ‘profound sexism’, says Helen Mirren
Helen Mirren has said that James Bond should never be played by a woman, as the spy franchise is “born out of profound sexism”. The
‘Drawings do not lie’: film-maker Michel Hazanavicius on his animated feature about the Holocaust
When the acclaimed French film-maker Michel Hazanavicius was approached by his parents’ best friend, the author and playwright Jean-Claude Grumberg, to adapt his fairytale The