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All We Imagine As Light review – dreamlike and gentle modern Mumbai tale is a triumph

Payal Kapadia’s glorious film is an absorbing story of three nurses that is full of humanity

Beating Hearts review – operatic French gangster film suffers from bloat

Gilles Lelouche’s new movie aims for a Springsteenesque blue-collar energy but buckles under the weight of its own naivety

Grand Tour review – engaged couple’s sweet, strange colonial era hide-and-seek

Miguel Gomes’s beguiling and bewildering story follows a jittery fiance fleeing his intended across the British empire, and her hot pursuit

Tiger Stripes review – entertaining Malaysian horror shows its claws

TikTok meets south-east Asian folklore in Amanda Nell Eu’s fierce directorial debut, an allegory about the onset of puberty

Two Tickets to Greece review – a holiday you may want to cut short

Great scenery and a joyous Kristin Scott Thomas are no match for one infuriating lead character in Marc Fitoussi’s friends reunited French comedy

The Balconettes review – neighbours finding trouble in invitation to hot guy’s flat

Noémie Merlant’s first film as a director is relentlessly silly, self-indulgent and unsuited to its themes of misogyny and sexual violence

Cannes 2024 week one roundup – the jury’s out, the sun isn’t…

The weather didn’t play ball, but Magnus von Horn’s fierce fairytale and Andrea Arnold’s kitchen-sink take on English mysticism should count among the first-week highlights for Greta Gerwig’s jury

‘Exhausting and extremely dangerous’: Mohammad Rasoulof on his escape from Iran

Exclusive: The director of The Seed of the Sacred Fig details how he discarded electronic devices and fled over the mountains on foot after authorities sentenced him to eight years in prison and flogging

Slow: the Lithuanian asexual romcom that raises ‘a lot of questions’

Marija Kavtaradze’s new film is a love story with a truly radical approach to intimacy. She reveals how she made a will they/won’t they tale that strays into little-known territory

The Girl With the Needle review – horrific drama based on Denmark’s 1921 baby-killer case

Loosely based on fact, Magnus van Horn’s fictionalised true crime nightmare leaves you with a shiver of pure fear

Wild Diamond review – French social-realist drama fuelled by TikTok energy

First-time actor Agathe Riedinger is a wannabe influencer from the wrong side of the tracks in this forthright and fluent film

Rome, Open City review – Rossellini’s blazingly urgent masterpiece from a city in ruins

Roberto Rossellini’s 1945 neorealist drama is unsparing in its depiction of the heavy price of both resistance and collaboration with the Nazi occupation

The Second Act review – Quentin Dupieux’s likable meta comedy of actors’ private lives

With help from an A-list cast, Dupieux brings his customary mischief to an amiable tale of imposture and role play

Our Mothers review – intimate drama exploring the legacy of Guatemala’s bloody civil war

Director César Díaz’s award-winning debut powerfully confronts his country’s past

La Chimera review – Josh O’Connor dazzles in brilliant tale of Italian tomb-raiders

Torn between lost love and a gang of rowdy grave-robbers, the actor digs deep for one of his finest performances in Alice Rohrwacher’s dazzling caper

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