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World cinema

August 2024

  • On the set of Le Samourai<br>French actor Alain Delon on the set of Le Samourai, written and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. (Photo by Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)

    French film star Alain Delon dies aged 88

    Celebrated actor and star of Plein Soleil and Le Samouraï has died, his children have said
  • Yilong Zhu in Only the River Flows.

    Only the River Flows review – stylishly enigmatic Chinese crime drama

    An overburdened detective investigates a series of murders in 1990s rural China in Wei Shujun’s slow-burning noir
  • Zhu Yilong in Only the River Flows.

    Only the River Flows review – accomplished Chinese noir is intriguing and ingenious thriller

    An ambitious police detective attempts to solve a series of murders from a disused cinema in director Wei Shujun’s crime drama

July 2024

  • A somnambulist trance … Werckmeister Harmonies.

    Werckmeister Harmonies review – Béla Tarr’s brooding masterpiece of a town sleepwalking into tyranny

  • Deniz Celiloğlu and Musab Ekici as Samet and Kenan in About Dry Grasses.

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    About Dry Grasses review – rich, engrossing Turkish epic with a twist

  • Impassive moping … Coma

    Coma review – vital signs are weak in Bertrand Bonello’s mopey lockdown drama

  • CROSSING (2024) Press publicity film still, directed by Levan Akin

    Crossing review – terrific Istanbul-set culture-clash drama

  • Shayda review – tense Australian-Iranian domestic abuse drama

  • ‘My slogan is very simple: no education, just liberation!’ – Béla Tarr on how film can fight the political right in Hungary

  • A Prince review – queer erotic drama of sexual enlightenment through gardening

June 2024

  • THE IMAGINARY - Studio Ponoc's The Imaginary will premiere on Netflix later this year. Cr: Netflix © 2024 Ponoc

    The Imaginary review – beguiling fantasy from Japan’s Studio Ponoc

  • Stellan Skarsgård.

    ‘In Europe, everyone’s screaming kill, kill, kill’: Stellan Skarsgård on Sweden, ‘silly’ Scandi noir and security

  • A black and white image of a child behind razor wire looking up at armed border guard.

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    Green Border review – an angry and urgent masterpiece about Europe’s migrant crisis

  • Peter Bradshaw

    Anouk Aimée was an entrancing 60s movie icon with an air of glamorous unknowability

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Anouk Aimée, star of La Dolce Vita and A Man and a Woman, dies aged 92

  • Àma Gloria review – French coming-of-age drama is a modest gem

  • Hounds review – grim and quirky Moroccan crime drama

  • Here review – low-key love in Brussels

  • Wendy Ide's film of the week
    The Beast review – Léa Seydoux mesmerises in wildly ambitious sci-fi romance

May 2024

  • a young man and young woman, played by Kęstutis Cicėnas and Greta Grinevičiūte, smile at each other, he holding her hand, in Slow.

    Slow review – terrific Lithuanian drama of an atypical romance

    Marija Kavtaradze’s affecting film explores the relationship between a passionately physical woman and a man who is asexual
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