Resonances

Italian star Valeria Golino takes on assisted suicide in her directorial debut, a Cannes Un Certain Regard selection. Dr. Death takes the form of an attractive young woman in Miele, an impressively mature directing debut from Italian actress Valeria Golino, who crafts an often engrossing...

Jia Zhangke's stately drama from the cold heart of China impresses Robbie Collin. The wuxia martial arts genre may have peaked in 1971 with the release of Hu King’s A Touch Of Zen, three decades before tigers crouched and dragons hid. Jia Zhangke pays tribute to Hu’s masterpiece,...

"The Past," Asghar Farhadi's first movie produced outside Iran, contains several memorable shots of people looking at each other through glass. Throughout writer-director Farhadi's wrenching, relentlessly intelligent drama, characters shield their feelings with unspoken motives and...

Occasionally Cannes will follow the trend set by Sundance, and cherry-pick a couple of the American festival’s biggest successes to add to its own competitions. Last year the exceptional Beasts Of The Southern Wild followed that path, and this year, the pleasure goes to Ryan...