Little White Lies

Directed by JOANNA HOGG Starring HONOR SWINTON BYRNE, TOM BURKE, TILDA SWINTON Released 30 AUGUST Since her 2007 debut feature Unrelated, Joanna Hogg has built a reputation for her well-met explorations of feckless upper echelon ennui – comedian Stew

To say that The Souvenir is a personal project for British filmmaker Joanna Hogg requires a finessed understanding of what this clichéd description means. A hoarder of letters, diaries, photographs and miscellaneous creative mementos, Hogg has both r

“Joanna never really explained why she chose me for the role, but apparently she had me in mind for a while. She told me that she had seen me in War and Peace – that was the thing that made her think I would be a good fit for Anthony. We started meet

There hasn’t been a whole lot to celebrate in the UK of late, unless you happen to harbour a profound fondness for tinpot totalitarian spud-fuckers and welocme the prospect of a future tinted in depressingly dim hues of red, white and blue. Joanna Ho

Having left his own inimitable mark on the vampire genre in 2013’s Only Lovers Left Alive, American indie godhead Jim Jarmusch has turned his attention to another of horror’s most enduring monsters for his 13th narrative feature. Featuring a stacked

Directed by JIM JARMUSCH Starring BILL MURRAY ADAM DRIVER CHLOË SEVIGNY Released 12 JULY Jim Jarmusch has a bone to pick with America. By his own admission, his oeuvre has always viewed the so-called Land of Opportunity through a foreigners’ eyes, ex

Directed by MARK JENKIN Starring EDWARD ROWE, MARY WOODVINE, GILES KING Released 30 AUGUST With Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse and now Bait, 2019 is quickly becoming a banner year for experimental seafaring cinema. This half-mast monochrome gem from w

Directed by SOPHIE HYDE Starring HOLLIDAY GRAINGER, ALIA SHAWKAT, FRA FEE Released 2 AUGUST From Desiree Akhavan’s Appropriate Behaviour to Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag, it’s more acceptable than ever to be a nasty woman in popular culture. They sl

Peter Strickland’s darkly comic horror tale, In Fabric, concerns a possessed dress and the lives it affects. His previous film, The Duke of Burgundy, was an intriguingly strange and beautifully delivered study of desire and devotion. Once again he ta

Directed by PETER STRICKLAND Starring MARIANNE JEAN-BAPTISTE GWENDOLINE CHRISTIE HAYLEY SQUIRES Released 28 JUNE Having set his previous features in Transylvania (Katalin Varga, 2009), Italy (Berberian Sound Studio, 2012) and a Middle-European Amazon

Directed by YANN GONZALEZ Starring VANESSA PARADIS NICOLAS MAURY KATE MORAN Released 5 JULY In the middle of Yann Gonzalez’s Knife + Heart, Anne (Vanessa Paradis) wanders into a gay bar, and watches a cabaret performance in which a she-wolf, in embra

Directed by CHRISTIAN PETZOLD Starring FRANZ ROGOWSKI PAULA BEER GODEHARD GIESE Released 16 AUGUST The guy at the bar looks anxious when French police vans scream by outside. It’s a not-unfamiliar scene across today’s Europe and beyond, yet as our pr

Directed by TODD DOUGLAS MILLER Starring BUZZ ALDRIN JOAN ANN ARCHER JANET ARMSTRONG Released 28 JUNE Fifty years on, what’s left to be said about the flight of Apollo 11? The eight-day mission that fulfilled President Kennedy’s eight-year-old pledge

Directed by KIRILL SEREBRENNIKOV Starring TEO YOO, IRINA STARSHENBAUM, ROMAN BILYK Released 16 AUGUST The production of art becomes a political act when oppression rains down from above. It’s something that Russian filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov know

Directed by LILA AVILÉS Starring GABRIELA CARTOL, TERESA SÁNCHEZ Released 26 JULY Eve dreams of the 42nd floor. As a diligent chambermaid in one of Mexico City’s plushest hotels, she keeps herself to herself, all with a view to scoring a promotion th

Directed by PHILIPPE FAUCON Starring MOUSTAPHA MBENGUE EMMANUELLE DEVOS MAREME N'DIAYE Released 21 JUNE While films about immigration tend to focus on the migrant’s experience in their new country, Philippe Faucon’s Amin centres on a man torn between

Emmanuelle Devos is what you might refer to as low-key royalty – one of those French actors who immediately lights up a film whether in a small supporting role or at centre stage, and boasting a career that will soon roll over into its fourth decade.

Directed by ANDREW BUJALSKI Starring REGINA HALL HAYLEY LU RICHARDSON SHAYNA MCHALE Released 28 JUNE Bras are at once a symbol of femininity and an emblem of the misogyny inherent to capitalism. Supposed to provide support to girls, they are also unc

Directed by PEDRO ALMODÓVAR Starring ANTONIO BANDERAS PENÉLOPE CRUZ LEONARDO SBARAGLIA Released 23 AUGUST Pedro Almodóvar is in an introspective mood. His 22nd feature follows a middle-aged Madrid-based filmmaker named Salvador Mallo (Antonio Bandera

Directed by AGNES VARDA Starring AGNES VARDA SANDRINE BONNAIRE HERVÉ CHANDES Released 19 JULY Film is “a beautiful summer peach with a worm inside,” says Agnes Varda with characteristic sass. It’s one of many sensorial images conjured, then left to r

Directed by CARLOS REYGADAS Starring CARLOS REYGADAS NATALIA LÓPEZ PHIL BURGERS Released 12 JULY here’s no real way to start a review of Carlos Reygadas’ remarkable Our Time without resorting to the Spanish term “cajones”. It could refer to numerous

The brilliant Our Time by Mexican writer/director Carlos Reygadas offers an unflinching portrait of a married couple in romantic freefall: one, a poet, is played by Reygadas himself; the other is played by his wife and long-time editor, Natalia Lopez

Directed by PENNY LANE Starring JEX BLACKMORE, CHALICE BLYTHE, NICHOLAS CROWE Released 23 AUGUST As the United States strains to appease deranged right-wing Evangelicals, Penny Lane’s latest documentary Hail Satan? couldn’t have come at a more opport

Directed by HARRY WOOTLIFF Starring LAIA COSTA, JOSH O'CONNOR, PETER WIGHT Released 12 JULY An exceptional amount of fine detail and rigourous observation have gone into the making of Only You, a palatably sweet and flighty romantic drama with a neat

Directed by GURINDER CHADHA Starring VIVEIK KALRA KULVINDER GHIR MEERA GANATRA Released 9 AUGUST The notion of music as the ultimate universal language gets a good-natured going over in this upbeat but gushingly sentimental coming-of-age story. Plot-