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32 hours ago

An Ordinary Case review – Daniel Auteuil directs and stars in tense Ruth Rendell-ish crime procedural

A careworn husband is accused of murdering his wife in a story inspired by a real life case that dispenses with the genre’s familiar brutality

Here is a fictionalised true crime drama, but one that is…

48 days ago

Partir Un Jour (Leave One Day) review – foodie musical is an undercooked turkey

Cannes film festival opening film
Dreadful songs add no flavour to dreary tale of a big-city gourmet returning to her home-cooked roots

The opening gala of Cannes can be such a gamble: a very exposed f…

5 months ago

Orgies, vampires and jewel-laden tortoises: it’s time we buried the myths of decadence in art

Is western civilisation being destroyed by its own decadence? Was the Roman empire? And does a preference for Lord of the Rings over The Matrix indicate that we are all doomed? Our critic tries to si…

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