Silent Land review – chilly drama of retribution on idyllic Italian island
There’s trouble in paradise as a wealthy couple’s luxury villa holiday hits the rocks in Aga Woszczynska’s impressive cautionary tale of selfish privilege
In Front of Your Face review – a gentle Korean pleasure
Lee Hye-yeong is mesmerising as a former actor confronting her past in a typically meditative study from Korean director Hong Sang-soo
Silent Land review – chilly comeuppance for picture-perfect tourists in Italian idyll
Aga Woszczynska’s incisive debut skewers guilt, desire and class for a vain pair of holidaymakers
In Front of Your Face review – quiet cine-literate magic from Korean auteur
Hong Sang-soo’s effortlessly lo-fi approach brings out the gentle humanity in his story of an actor returning to her family
One Second review – Zhang Yimou’s censored love letter to cinema reels you in
Grief and pain go to the bone in the Chinese director’s simple, beautifully shot tale about an escaped prisoner and an orphan
Jean-Luc Godard: a genius who tore up rule book without troubling to read it
Godard was the inspired maverick of the French New Wave, the Lennon to Truffaut’s McCartney, and kept his radical imagination to the very end
Bloody Oranges review – bitter French comedy entertains but leaves a sour taste
A corrupt minister and a delusional pair of dance contestants are just two of the monsters of mediocrity who haunt Jean-Christophe Meurisse’s strange film
Both Sides of the Blade review – Claire Denis’s love triangle thriller lacks chemistry
Juliette Binoche and Vincent Lindon are both intense, except when they’re together, in a romantic drama weighed down by backstory
The Damned Don’t Cry review – mournful portrait of colonial tension
Fyzal Boulifa explores the decisions forced on a poverty-stricken Moroccan family in this vivid and powerful drama
Identification of a Woman review – Michelangelo Antonioni’s midlife crisis of a movie
Antonioni’s 1982 film, in which a sexually restless middle-aged film-maker auditions young women, feels dated but has pleasing flourishes
Love Life review – tangled and tragic human drama about chaotic life twists
Japanese director Kôji Fukada has crafted a richly painful and quietly comic human drama
Saloum review – slick gangster horror in wild west Africa
Director Jean Luc Herbulot dynamically weaves supernatural mystery into this gritty crime caper to produce a distinct and charismatic thrill ride
Amanda review – comic crises in the life of an entitled twentysomething
A wealthy young woman, friendless and lost after studying abroad, sets about recovering an old friendship she thinks she once had
Other People’s Children review – a heartfelt modern love triangle
This sweet, sad drama sees a teacher keen to be a mother bonding with her new boyfriend’s daughter, while dealing with the constant presence of his ex
Argentina 1985 review – rousingly-acted junta trial dramatisation
Ricardo Darin anchors this courtroom drama as the chief prosecutor bringing military leaders to justice for human rights abuse