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In the role of a lifetime, Léa Seydoux plays a widowed single mum caught between new romance and the failing mind of her father in the French director’s deeply personal Cannes prize winner

The French filmmaker speaks with Annabel Nugent about her new film starring Léa Seydoux, what it means to be both a mother and a filmmaker – and the myth about directors that she won’t buy into

This is a film about emotions that are hard to spell out

A widow has her desires suddenly reawakened in this tender French film

There’s a wealth of terrific films to venture out to see this month. Jacob Stolworthy runs through the top picks

Some actors relish the act of performance in delightfully showy and externalized ways. Their brio provokes our enjoyment, and while all sorts of subtle and humanizing details may come from that delight in sheer invention, the work is big. Juicy. Like a peach, picked and then devoured by Cate Blanchett…

Mia Hansen-Løve's poignant film follows Sandra, a young woman involved with two splintering families

Tim Blake Nelson will play a role in 'Dune: Part 2.' But, who is he playing? Count Fenring? Or, will his role set up Dune: Part 3?'

A hardened news reporter is forced to reassess her life in Bruno Dumont’s watchable if laboured media satire

The star and the film’s intentional blankness add a layer of interest to Bruno Dumont’s loose reverie about a journalist experiencing an emotional breakdown

The movies returned at something close to full force this year. COVID masks all but vanished from multiplex crowds, and from the audiences at the press screenings I attended (though I kept mine handy). Sundance did cancel its in-person screenings for the second January in a row, thanks to the…