Jason Solomons
15 November 2023
The great divide by the seaside
A German’s documentary about an end-of-the-pier show in Norfolk might be the best movie yet about Brexit
Read the full article08 November 2023
Legends of a fall: Justine Triet’s courtroom victory
Why twisty French thriller Anatomy of a Fall is tipped to win the Best Picture Oscar
Read the full article01 November 2023
On the Adamant: a ship called dignity
The award-winning story of how a psychiatric facility on a River Seine barge helps to keep its patients afloat
Read the full article18 October 2023
Knights to remember in a tale of quiet heroism
Amid an explosion of young British talent, Sir Anthony Hopkins brings London’s Film Festival to tears with his performance in One Life
Read the full article11 October 2023
Wild horse: finding the real Anita Pallenberg
A new documentary delves into the life of the woman who outstoned the Stones
Read the full article13 September 2023
Passages: a toxic triangle of Paris passions
Ira Sachs’ latest movie is the year’s frankest and most sensual film – a thoughtful and provocative exploration of human emotions
Read the full article06 September 2023
Time’s up for protest at the movies
Amid strikes and sexism, the Venice Film Festival plays it safe
Read the full article02 August 2023
Virginie Efira, European film’s late bloomer
A former Belgian TV star who became the toast of France, Virginie Efira is little-known here. Is it time for a breakthrough?
Read the full article26 July 2023
Irish cinema goes far beyond The Banshees of Inisherin
There’s far more to Irish cinema than the pain and cliches of Colin Farrell’s dark comedy – as a recent Galway film festival showed
Read the full article17 July 2023
Nous l’aimons: RIP Jane Birkin, a true European
The singer and actress was the Frenchest of us all, and somehow also the most British
Read the full article31 May 2023
Cannes, the festival of the usual suspects
There was much to enjoy at Cannes – but the same old players doing the same old things hints that cinema may be due a shake-up
Read the full article24 May 2023
Epic ballads to the betrayed: the films parting Cannes’ grey clouds
Martin Scorsese, Steve McQueen and the late Martin Amis deliver the goods at an unexpectedly soggy Cannes Film Festival
Read the full article10 May 2023
Scaling the mountains between us
A meditative masterpiece explores rediscovered friendships and the art of finding simpler ways through our complex world
Read the full article19 April 2023
A new French connection: The Night of the 12th keeps it real
How an unstarry, violent story of crime and redemption with echoes of the classic policiers cleaned up at France’s Oscars
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Three colours of cinema: A masterpiece that shines brighter than ever
Thirty years on, the key to the enduring legacy of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Three Colours trilogy is creativity and love
Read the full article23 March 2023
The ‘French Robert Mitchum’ finding his inner Beast
Unsung Inglourious Basterds actor Denis Ménochet encounters more terror in the countryside in Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s The Beasts
Read the full article09 March 2023
Point of no return: The Cannes winner forced to flee her own country
Cannes Best Actress winner Zar Amir Ebrahimi on her exile from Iran and why her work shames the regime
Read the full article02 March 2023
Belgian beauty: A tender story of young male companionship
Lukas Dhont’s Close is an ecstatic, tear-jerking tale of adolescent friendship
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The enduring legacy of Miles Davis’s coolest mood music
How the jazz musician’s iconic soundtrack to Lift to the Scaffold still resonates today
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Is this the end of La Dolce Vita?
Homegrown movies are struggling at the Italian box office
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Smart ass: Jerzy Skolimowski on his daring new film
Jerzy Skolimowski and a donkey team up to create an avant-garde classic
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Unimpeachable: Catalan cinema bears fruit
A captivating movie about a fruit-farming family is part of a new rural film trend
Read the full article30 December 2022
2023, the year that cinema goes back to the future
Spielberg, Mendes and a year of film nostalgia
Read the full article01 December 2022
Is this obscure Belgian gem really the ‘greatest film of all time’?
Jeanne Dielman, directed by Chantal Akerman in 1975, beats Citizen Kane to be voted the best movie ever in Sight and Sound magazine poll
Read the full article01 December 2022
Oooh! Ah! Cinema
Eric Cantona took to the screens in his second act. But even if his films are one day forgotten, the footage of his greatest role – as a footballer – will be replayed for a long, long time
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The ooh la la of Lady Chatterley
What attracts French film-makers to the DH Lawrence novel that scandalised Britain?
Read the full article17 November 2022
A blast from the pastoral: revisiting Britain’s rural traditions
A collage exposing the dark heart of the British countryside gets a musical makeover. But what will the Europeans make of it?
Read the full article10 November 2022
The fight against forgetting
The UK Jewish film festival forces us to confront the past, no matter how agonising
Read the full article03 November 2022
Standing for reason
Florence Pugh excels in the tale of a 19th-century Irish miracle that comes with a very modern subtext
Read the full article27 October 2022
The lost girl: The tragedy at the heart of Triangle of Sadness
Triumph at Cannes has been followed by tragedy for Ruben Östlund’s satire of the super-rich at play, Triangle of Sadness
Read the full article20 October 2022
And next year’s Oscar winner is…
She Said stands out and a French drama also shines at the London Film Festival
Read the full article06 October 2022
Magic and myths of movie Paris
The city of light always looks lovely in films like Mrs Harris Goes to Paris.. but the truth about the French capital is a little different
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