GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
Latest editorial
The gen from Cannes
Star critic RITA DI SANTO recommends two outstanding depictions of working-class lives in England and Finland as the pick of the bunch
Ken Loach's The Old Oak (left) and Aki Kaurismaki’s Fallen Leaves (right) are the outstanding films of the festival
[IMDb]
The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach
KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
ANDY HEDGECOCK welcomes an accessible - and optimistic - take on our relationship to new technology
JOHN GREEN suggests that a new, biased, and highly readable re-hash of the story of the Cambridge Five be taken with a large pinch of salt
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a timely reminder of the long history of protests and the outdoor spaces in which they takes place
THIS year’s Cannes Film Festival jury awarded the Palme d’Or unanimously to Anatomy of a Fall by French director Justine Triet.
It is a poignant and absorbing drama about the wife of a frustrated writer charged with his murder after his death in suspicious circumstances.
While their 11-year-old son tries to make sense of what happened, it is the woman’s way of life that appears to be under examination, more than the question of guilt.
Similar stories
RITA DI SANTO reports on the films from Iran, Spain, Belgium and Brazil that won the top awards
ANGUS REID recommends a visit to an outstanding gathering of national and international folk musicians in the northern archipelago
RITA DI SANTO speaks to the exiled Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa about Two Prosecutors, his chilling study of the Stalinist purges
RITA DI SANTO surveys the smorgasbord of films on offer at this year’s festival