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Anaïs in Love review – Anaïs Demoustier intoxicates in comic French love triangle

Cinema’s latest irresistible chaotic femme, Demoustier is perfectly cast in first-time writer-director Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s sparkling romance

Mama’s Affair review – star vehicle for Cantopop idols Mirror is for boyband fans only

Music-biz drama featuring Hong Kong pop stars Keung To and Jer Lau bids for cross-generational appeal but gets lost in cliches

Anaïs in Love review – cerebral eroticism and summery thrills in French adultery farce

Charming ‘bulldozer’ Anaïs sprints after emotional stimulants in breezy tale of graduate student who seduces her publisher’s partner

Special Delivery review – noirish bruiser is Fast and Furious in South Korea

Parasite’s Park So-dam stars as an elite courier ferrying fugitives in an action thriller packed with dangerous driving

‘He was the Steve Jobs of his day’: Romain Duris takes on the towering role of Gustave Eiffel

The tousle-haired star could be regarded as the quintessential Parisian actor – and now he’s taking on the city icon that looms largest

Eiffel review – celebrated tower builder gets cheekily tall backstory

Romain Duris brings authority to this fanciful version of history, which has Gustave Eiffel erecting the monument as a Taj Mahal for his lost love

Between Two Dawns review – powerful workplace drama over safety failings

A workplace incident pitches a young man into a battle of conscience with his family and the law in Selman Nacar’s debut

The Deer King review – a beautiful muddle from Studio Ghibli regular

Animator turned director Masashi Ando creates a strikingly handsome work let down by sketchy storytelling

Hit the Road review – all of Iranian life on four wheels

Panah Panahi juggles joy, heartbreak and surreal humour in a road movie his imprisoned father would be proud of

Hit the Road review – irrepressible defiance in beautifully composed debut feature

Directed by Panah Panahi, the son of jailed Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi, this tense family drama is drenched in a subtle but urgent political meaning

Robust review – Gérard Depardieu at his larger-than-life best

The French star plays an actor who forms a complex friendship with a young security guard in this refreshingly understated comedy drama

The Big City review – Satyajit Ray’s miraculous look at a new world of possibility

The struggles and triumphs of a 1950s Kolkata family whose highest earner is a woman is told with marvellous lucidity in an optimistic masterpiece

A Chiara review – an Italian girl’s war against mob rule

A teenager demands to know the truth about the media’s portrayal of her father in this authentic, slow-burning drama

Ode to the Spring review – manipulative Chinese Covid-onset drama

These sentimental, pandemic-based stories, all set in Wuhan, might struggle to find an audience

Futura review – fascinating snapshot of Italy’s young adults

In this charming documentary, Italian teenagers from across the country share their hopes and fears as they contemplate the future

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