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

Official Competition review – Penélope Cruz on fire in delicious movie industry satire

Cruz’s eccentric director employs unorthodox techniques to manage lead actors – and polar opposites – Antonio Banderas and Oscar Martínez

Queen of Glory review – gloriously low-key comedy of immigrant life

The trials of a Ghanaian-American woman and her family never overpower the deft emotional savviness of this low-budget tale

Her Way review – portrait of a sex worker shreds cinema’s cliches

Laure Calamy of Call My Agent! fame is mesmerising as a sex worker of a certain age in Cécile Ducrocq’s perceptive and humane feature debut