This saga of abuse takes its uphill time, but its bittersweet payoff is everything.
In dissecting a woman’s affair with her teenage stepson, film-maker Catherine Breillat’s intimate gaze is as lacerating as a scalpel.
Mads Mikkelsen’s meaningful looks mean business in a soil-tilling drama dug from Danish history.
Inspired by an actual teacher, film-maker Christopher Zalla’s blast of sunshine leans heavily on earnest overdrive.
The umpteenth adaptation of an 180-year-old classic is rife with machismo writ large.
A shambolic household takes shape as a family in a trial by fire all the sweeter for its transformative heat.
Director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s practised unpacking of the relativity of truth is cinematic origami.
With Juliette Binoche at the stove, every dish is a star in this dreamy, 19th-century romance.
A quagmire of cross-purposes inside a school is an unsettling lesson in the tenuousness of the structures we build to protect ourselves.