Smoking Causes Coughing review – one of the funniest films of the year
Quentin Dupieux’s madcap French comedy about a group of tobacco-powered superheroes is as unpredictable as it is formally daring
Streaming: Return to Seoul and the best films about homecoming
Davy Chou’s lovely drama about a young woman searching for her past follows in the footsteps of The Deer Hunter, Get Carter, Tiny Furniture and more
Smoking Causes Coughing review – cigarette-superhero comedy is refreshingly immature
Quentin Dupieux’s chaotic, bizarre film about a monster-fighting squad controlled by a rat named Didier will greatly annoy some, which is one of its strengths
Small, Slow But Steady review – unsentimental Japanese drama about a young deaf boxer
The true story of a self-doubting female fighter battling through pandemic lockdown benefits from a muted, naturalistic approach
La Syndicaliste review – French sexual abuse thriller takes cheap shots
Isabelle Huppert plays a whistleblower who is assaulted in this crass adaptation of a shocking true story
Mother and Son review – Annabelle Lengronne is magnetic in French immigrant drama
Playing a young woman who moves from Ivory Coast to Paris with her two young sons, Lengronne then frustratingly fades from view in Léonor Serraille’s follow-up to Jeune Femme
Streaming: One Fine Morning and the best films about children parenting their parents
Mia Hansen-Løve’s bittersweet 2022 release joins a select group of films exploring this most tender of life role reversals, from The Savages to Eat Drink Man Woman
No more Antonioni: how Berlusconi turned entertainment into politics
The lurid giant of Italian populism’s career grew out of his media empire, which heralded post-ideological society with a consumerist dreamworld
The Old Man Movie: Lactopalypse! review – gloriously unsavoury Estonian animation
This madcap stop-motion tale of saving the world from cataclysmic bovine explosion is funny, silly – and not for children
Call My Agent!’s Laure Calamy: ‘I have too much energy’
The ebullient French star on her hyperactive new film, taking on more serious roles and her love of British cinema
La Chimera review – Alice Rohrwacher’s uproarious adventure teems with life
Set in 1980s Tuscany, Rohrwacher’s captivating film follows a lovelorn Englishman plundering Italy’s historical artefacts with a bizarre gang
Last Summer review – Catherine Breillat’s all too safe version of a dangerous romance
Breillat’s remake of Queen of Hearts rather pointlessly draws the sting from a mother’s affair with her teenage stepson
Close Your Eyes review – Victor Erice returns with enigmatic tale of disappeared actor
The Spirit of the Beehive director’s first feature in 30 years uses a film-within-a-film structure to ruminate on memory, ageing and cinema itself
Eureka review – booze, bird souls and Viggo Mortensen in barmy yet rich experimental enigma
The Argentinian director Lisandro Alonso is back with another rewardingly weird journey into the unknown
Under the Fig Trees review – dreamy, sensual Tunisian drama
Capturing long, hot days of flirting more than fig-picking among her young, non-professional cast, Erige Sehiri’s quietly observational feature debut beguiles