The Big Hit review – impressive French prison comedy-drama
Based on the true story of a drama teacher who worked in a high-security jail, this film crackles with charm and nervous energy
Moon, 66 Questions review – oblique view of a family reunion is a cinematic pleasure
Greek director Jacqueline Lentzou’s elliptical tale of an estranged father and daughter is a supremely confident debut
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The Big Hit review – feelgood prison comedy as convicts do Beckett
A curmudgeonly actor helps prisoners put on a production of Waiting for Godot in Emmanuel Courcol’s predictable drama
Wings of Desire review – Wim Wenders’ elegiac hymn to a broken cold-war Berlin
Shot when the city seemed forever divided by the wall, this intensely romantic story of an angel who longs for human love is unlike any other
Theo and the Metamorphosis review – provocative drama of nudity and hating
An initially intriguing slice of secluded life descends into hollow indulgence, the kind of film that gives arthouse cinema a bad name
Moon, 66 Questions review – elusive but rewarding study of family tension
Jacqueline Lentzou’s highly anticipated debut feature follows a daughter struggling to reconnect with her ailing father
Everything Went Fine review – François Ozon’s nimble study of assisted dying
The French director focuses on domestic dynamics rather than the moral issues in this naturalistic drama about a family crisis
Jean-Louis Trintignant: an actor of charisma, depth and dark emotions
The French veteran, who starred in some of the finest new wave films and won the best actor César for the end-of-life drama Amour, has died aged 91
Jean-Louis Trintignant, star of A Man and a Woman and Amour, dies aged 91
The veteran of the French new wave starred in a series of auteur-driven films, before appearing in Michael Haneke’s Amour
Il Buco review – arrestingly beautiful caving docudrama
Inspired by a 1960s Italian potholing expedition, Michelangelo Frammartino’s almost wordless film is spellbinding
Swan Song review – amiable tale of a hairdresser’s final flourish
A celebrity stylist comes out of retirement to do the funeral preparation for his arch enemy in this insubstantial yarn
‘I know I’m not going to please everyone’: Lucile Hadžihalilović on her beguiling film-making
Story of Film director Mark Cousins talks to an emergent champion of slow-burn, surrealist cinema on the release of her debut English-language feature, Earwig
Olga review – political gymnastics drama sets the bar high
Gymnast Anastasiia Budiashkina gives an impressive performance as a rising star whose world is flipped upside down by the 2014 Ukrainian revolution
Pickpocket review – existential thrills in Robert Bresson’s study of a thief’s progress
Bresson’s 1959 film about a misfit who dreams of rising above conventional morals is a brilliant example of the cinema of ideas