‘They wanted to attack me’: Aurore Clément on violent premieres and smuggling bananas for Brando

As the film that caused havoc at its Paris premiere resurfaces, the great French actor looks back on an extraordinary career, from the furore of Meetings With Anna to the meltdown of Apocalypse Now

Ari review – a French primary teacher flunks out in daydreaming misfire

The promising French director Leonore Serraille delivers a dud with this undercooked story of a selfish drifter who was once a talented educator and now can’t teach for toffee

Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles review – sex, secrets and the unbearable silence of loneliness

A 50th-anniversary release for Chantal Akerman’s meticulous masterpiece, voted the best film of all time by Sight and Sound

Shanghai Blues review – delirious screwball comedy from Hong Kong’s Spielberg

Tsui Hark’s classic tale of love and mistaken identity, with plentiful helpings of farce and wackiness, has been restored for its 40th anniversary

By the Stream review – gentle college comedy of manners from Hong Sang-soo

The Korean director applies his languid style to the tale of a college campus coping with the arrival of a famous visitor

The Tasting review – French midlife romcom takes its leads guzzling fine wines

Easygoing tale has Hortense meet Jacques while buying a bottle at his shop, but the real star is the picturesque setting of Troyes

Architecton review – poetic study of humankind’s bricks-and-mortar impact on the Earth

Victor Kossakovsky’s follow-up to Gunda is a gorgeously shot reverie about our use of materials such as stone and concrete

It’s Raining Men review – Laure Calamy adultery comedy puts the heat in cheat

Call My Agent! star brings her light comic touch to a flimsy, sugary but sometimes oddly daring French romcom

Rocco and His Brothers review – Luchino Visconti’s operatically magnificent family epic

Alain Delon is coltishly beautiful in this compelling 1960s tale of homesickness, aspiration, anguish and rage

Diabel review – canine sidekick along for ride as dour war veteran biffs bad guys

A Polish ex-soldier returns to his home town and takes on local gangsters in an exhausting barrage of violence in humourless action film

How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies review – tear-jerking Oscar contender from Thailand

A dropout’s burgeoning affection for his gran makes him rethink his plan of benefiting from her fortune in a shamelessly sentimental crowd-pleaser

And the 2024 Braddies go to … Peter Bradshaw’s film picks of the year

Now the Guardian’s Top 50 countdown, as voted for by the whole film team, has announced its No 1, here are our chief critic’s personal choices, in no particular order

How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies review – sad but sweet Thai inheritance tale

The premise – a young man cosies up to his grandmother for the sake of her will – sounds cynical, but this is actually a tear-jerker with an important point

The Universal Theory review – beautiful, wigged-out German multiverse mystery

Gorgeous images and a lush score intrigue in Timm Kröger’s 60s-set noir thriller about a postgrad student’s alpine adventures

Sujo review – slow-burning Mexican drug cartel drama

A young man struggles to escape his bloody birthright in Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez’s elegant Sundance winner