Lives unlived are the bittersweet seam of a romance revisited 15 years too late.

A solitary Iranian widow’s subversive tilt at life speaks condemning volumes.

This is celebration as a way of life.

This saga of abuse takes its uphill time, but its bittersweet payoff is everything.

Resolve in the face of evil is a testimony of daring that can never be retold too often.

Everyone involved is note-perfect.

Nothing in Francis Ford Coppola's gorgeous schemozzle is content with being clear-cut.

The anti-commodification message could not be more brutal in this obliterative body-horror ride.

The partner of a celebrated painter needs every shred of her spirit in this anatomising of their exacting relationship.

In dissecting a woman’s affair with her teenage stepson, film-maker Catherine Breillat’s intimate gaze is as lacerating as a scalpel.