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Tchaikovsky’s Wife review – love turns to obsession in an off-key marriage

Alyona Mikhailova is tremendous as estranged wife Antonina, whose naivety and narcissism fester in the rubble of her marriage to the gay composer

Final Cut (Coupez!) review – Hazanavicius’s silly, splattery zombie horror meta-farce

The Artist director’s remake of the Japanese cult film One Cut of the Dead is an undemanding, easygoing way to kick off the Cannes film festival

Cop Secret review – Reykjavík’s answer to Hot Fuzz in action flick sendup

Former footballer Hannes Þór Halldórsson makes his film debut with a goofy comedy about a knucklehead cop afraid to come out as gay

Cannes 2022: 10 movies to watch out for in this year’s festival

Austin Butler shakes his stuff as Elvis, Cronenberg gets creepy, Claire Denis takes on colonial agony and Hirokazu Kore-eda unwraps his first Korean-language film

Rhino review – horribly compelling Ukrainian crime drama

Oleh Sentsov’s deftly directed morality tale charts the rise and fall of an out-of-control gangster

‘You’re born an egotistical sociopath’: The Innocents, the child-horror that leaves audiences shaking

There’s no gore and little violence, so why does Eskil Vogt’s film about children with special powers provoke such strong reactions? He says it’s because the cruelty exhibited is uncomfortably relatable

Lost Illusions review – Balzac adaptation is period-drama perfection

Benjamin Voisin and Cécile de France star in a superb costume coming-of-age story for the Netflix generation

We and Our Mountains review – absurdist Armenian satire thumbs its nose at Soviet Russia

On a remote hillside, far from the swinging 60s, garrulous shepherds exasperate the police in this elegant parable about power and the state

Eleven Days in May review – unflinching homage to children killed in Gaza last year

Mohammed Sawwaf and Michael Winterbottom’s documentary takes a deeply personal approach to the young lives lost in May’s bombings

Thar review – savage Hindi neo-western set in Rajasthan

An antique dealer, a disillusioned cop and a thirst for revenge collide in this gruesomely compelling Indian thriller

The Swimmer review – Olympic ambition and homophobia in the fast lane

Israeli director Adam Kalderon draws on his own experience in this engaging drama

Wild Men review – Danish dad seeks his inner Viking in midlife crisis comedy

A suburban man leaves his family and heads to the mountains, where he meets a criminal on the run…

In Short, Europe: Loving Encounters review – small and sweet chunks of Euro love

Small and mostly sweet, this short film selection buoys us up in the wake of the pandemic with an upbeat view of relationships

Wild Men review – the world’s worst Viking goes off grid

Dressed in animal furs and brandishing an axe, an office worker goes full Fred Flintstone in this madcap comedy featuring Sofie Gråbøl

Atabai review – great man’s homecoming in sincere Iranian drama about love and loss

Anger and pain course through this film about an architect who returns to his village, but it fails to deliver the emotional payoff

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