DENNIS BROE surveys the offerings made at Series Mania Festival
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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
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SCOTT ALSWORTH assesses the follow up to Disco Elysium, the first-ever genuinely Marxist videogame
GEORGE FOGARTY wallows in a celebration of music as a community practice
RITA DI SANTO listens out for the undertow of political film-making at this year’s festival
This year’s Venice Biennale marks a major shift in European cultural politics suggests CLARE CAROLIN
ANGUS REID applauds the potential of an ambitious show about Gaza, and encourages it to keep its nerve
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.
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