La Famille Bélier review – feelgood comedy
An award-winning French tale about a teenage girl and her deaf parents is frothy but moving
Avengers: Age of Ultron; The Age of Adaline; The Tribe; Hard to Be a God; The Wonders; The Salt of the Earth; The Dance of Reality; Marshland; Empire – review
Marvel’s latest lacks the wit of its forebears, and while Harrison Ford puts his heart into Adaline, the best of the week’s DVDs are foreign-language films
Abel Ferrara: ‘Pasolini’s death is not some kind of fictional event’
The fearless champion of bad taste talks spirituality, improvisation and his shamanic approach to shooting a film about Pasolini’s fateful final hours
The Second Mother review – master and servant roles under scrutiny
The delicate relationship between employer and servant is skilfully subverted and scrutinised in this funny, serious study of class in modern-day Brazil
Closed Curtain review – dreamlike and deadpan
A screenwriter finds a remote place to work and protect his dog, when his space is invaded, in Jafar Panahi’s Pirandellian sideswipe at Iran’s government
Wolf Totem review – lupine thrills and pack mentality
Bestseller adaptation that is part wildlife doc, part dissection of the Cultural Revolution; at times fantastically exiting, at others bogged down in muddy metaphor
Theeb review – timeless art-house drama
There is a stark authenticity to this beautifully shot story of a Bedouin boy’s fight for survival during the first world war
Marshland review – True Detective in post-Franco Spain
It’s surely coincidence but this Spanish crime drama shares many elements with the HBO drama, including some breathtaking camerawork
Hard to Be a God review – mud, blood and holy hell
A slo-mo kaleidoscope of medieval squalor, fear and pandemonium, Alexei German’s three-hour epic isn’t easy to watch, but it is awe-inspiring in its own monumentally mad way
Five great female-friendly comic-book adaptations
The Diary of a Teenage Girl is the latest comic book movie to feature a heroine, but women are still woefully underrepresented in the genre overall
Man With a Movie Camera review – pure cinema, still unparalleled
Dziga Vertov’s unclassifiable 1929 masterpiece celebrates the infinite possibilities of film
Cub review – visually stylish Belgian chiller
An eccentric build-up and some ingenious booby-trappery can’t quite compensate for the plotting holes in this cub scout slasher movie
David Gulpilil – magnetic Indigenous actor connecting two Australias
Melbourne International film festival celebrates an enduring career with Walkabout, Charlie’s Country, Ten Canoes and an important new film
Melbourne film festival: you’ll laugh, you’ll cry with top 10 things to see and do
Luke Buckmaster scans a lineup designed to stir the emotions, including a tearjerker gamer movie, a reincarnation comedy starring Colin Farrell and a concentration-challenging nine-hour movie marathon
Eden review – the perfect mix of music and melancholia
Mia Hansen-Løve’s tremendously stylish film about a Paris DJ coolly shuns a traditional narrative to move in time with its own ambient beat