‘The main issue was always the hijab’: the Iranian directors arrested for their gentle septuagenarian comedy
Fawzia Mirza and Amrit Kaur on The Queen of My Dreams: ‘People want to hear more queer Muslim stories’
The Count of Monte Cristo review – highly enjoyable French costume spectacle
‘Everyone recognises her now – me, not so much’: Arthur Harari on how Anatomy of a Fall catapulted him and Justine Triet to film power couple status
Paradise Is Burning review – compelling Swedish drama of three abandoned sisters
August 2024
Black Dog review – ex-con and stray dog bond in searching Chinese social drama
Guan Hu’s low-key Cannes winner is a heartfelt tale of redemption set against the dramatic backdrop of the Gobi desert
The Count of Monte Cristo review – a good-looking gallop through Dumas’ tale of revenge
Pierre Niney plays the man behind the multiple masks in this fast-moving adaptation that needs a touch more finesse
French film star Alain Delon dies aged 88
Only the River Flows review – stylishly enigmatic Chinese crime drama
Only the River Flows review – accomplished Chinese noir is intriguing and ingenious thriller
July 2024
Werckmeister Harmonies review – Béla Tarr’s brooding masterpiece of a town sleepwalking into tyranny
Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky’s 2000 film moves slowly around a small town where a very strange circus has arrived. Its eerie power has only grown in a time of rising fascism
Wendy Ide's film of the week
About Dry Grasses review – rich, engrossing Turkish epic with a twist
A village teacher is accused of inappropriate behaviour in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s handsome, beautifully performed, three-and-a-half-hour fable
Coma review – vital signs are weak in Bertrand Bonello’s mopey lockdown drama
Crossing review – terrific Istanbul-set culture-clash drama
Shayda review – tense Australian-Iranian domestic abuse drama
