Jason Solomons
10 May 2023
Scaling the mountains between us
A meditative masterpiece explores rediscovered friendships and the art of finding simpler ways through our complex world
Read the full article19 April 2023
A new French connection: The Night of the 12th keeps it real
How an unstarry, violent story of crime and redemption with echoes of the classic policiers cleaned up at France’s Oscars
Read the full article13 April 2023
Three colours of cinema: A masterpiece that shines brighter than ever
Thirty years on, the key to the enduring legacy of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Three Colours trilogy is creativity and love
Read the full article23 March 2023
The ‘French Robert Mitchum’ finding his inner Beast
Unsung Inglourious Basterds actor Denis Ménochet encounters more terror in the countryside in Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s The Beasts
Read the full article09 March 2023
Point of no return: The Cannes winner forced to flee her own country
Cannes Best Actress winner Zar Amir Ebrahimi on her exile from Iran and why her work shames the regime
Read the full article02 March 2023
Belgian beauty: A tender story of young male companionship
Lukas Dhont’s Close is an ecstatic, tear-jerking tale of adolescent friendship
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The enduring legacy of Miles Davis’s coolest mood music
How the jazz musician’s iconic soundtrack to Lift to the Scaffold still resonates today
Read the full article02 February 2023
Is this the end of La Dolce Vita?
Homegrown movies are struggling at the Italian box office
Read the full article19 January 2023
Smart ass: Jerzy Skolimowski on his daring new film
Jerzy Skolimowski and a donkey team up to create an avant-garde classic
Read the full article12 January 2023
Unimpeachable: Catalan cinema bears fruit
A captivating movie about a fruit-farming family is part of a new rural film trend
Read the full article30 December 2022
2023, the year that cinema goes back to the future
Spielberg, Mendes and a year of film nostalgia
Read the full article01 December 2022
Is this obscure Belgian gem really the ‘greatest film of all time’?
Jeanne Dielman, directed by Chantal Akerman in 1975, beats Citizen Kane to be voted the best movie ever in Sight and Sound magazine poll
Read the full article01 December 2022
Oooh! Ah! Cinema
Eric Cantona took to the screens in his second act. But even if his films are one day forgotten, the footage of his greatest role – as a footballer – will be replayed for a long, long time
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The ooh la la of Lady Chatterley
What attracts French film-makers to the DH Lawrence novel that scandalised Britain?
Read the full article17 November 2022
A blast from the pastoral: revisiting Britain’s rural traditions
A collage exposing the dark heart of the British countryside gets a musical makeover. But what will the Europeans make of it?
Read the full article10 November 2022
The fight against forgetting
The UK Jewish film festival forces us to confront the past, no matter how agonising
Read the full article03 November 2022
Standing for reason
Florence Pugh excels in the tale of a 19th-century Irish miracle that comes with a very modern subtext
Read the full article27 October 2022
The lost girl: The tragedy at the heart of Triangle of Sadness
Triumph at Cannes has been followed by tragedy for Ruben Östlund’s satire of the super-rich at play, Triangle of Sadness
Read the full article20 October 2022
And next year’s Oscar winner is…
She Said stands out and a French drama also shines at the London Film Festival
Read the full article06 October 2022
Magic and myths of movie Paris
The city of light always looks lovely in films like Mrs Harris Goes to Paris.. but the truth about the French capital is a little different
Read the full article29 September 2022
The Queen of Europe: The pain and glory of Charlotte Rampling
It isn’t easy getting Charlotte Rampling to let anyone in, be they real people or imagined characters on a script page
Read the full article22 September 2022
Jean-Luc Godard changed film forever
The visionary French-Swiss film director and giant of the French New Wave left us breathless with his films. He's how he did it
Read the full article15 September 2022
Look beyond the twinkle in The Banshees of Inisherin
Look past the Irish clichés in Colin Farrell’s Venice award-winner and you’ll find a beautiful, bleakly comic movie
Read the full article08 September 2022
She’s still got it: The old lady of Venice meets Netflix
The big presence at the Venice Film Festival's 90th birthday party was the streaming giant
Read the full article30 July 2022
Fire Of Love: Inside the new documentary about a volcanic relationship
Director Sara Dosa on Maurice and Katia Krafft and their love triangle with volcanoes
Read the full article28 July 2022
Genius in the house: Laurent Garnier hits the docs
In a new documentary, French superstar DJ Laurent Garnier recalls his part in the birth of dance music and traces his career all the way from Manchester’s Haçienda to Tbilisi’s Bassiani
Read the full article30 June 2022
A kick in the head: Tigers is a football film like no other
The fictionalised story of a real Swedish football prodigy’s struggles tells ugly truths about the beautiful game
Read the full article23 June 2022
And God created Trintignant
Mortality was never far away – on the screen and, tragically, in real life – for the immortal Jean-Louis, French cinema’s man for all seasons
Read the full article16 June 2022
How Everything Went Fine for Sophie Marceau
Sophie Marceau captivated one schoolboy so much he became a Francophile film critic. But what would it be like when they spoke, 40 years later?
Read the full article09 June 2022
Løve Island: where life and art coalesce
For her first film in English, director Mia Hansen-Løve follows in her hero Ingmar Bergman’s footsteps to a remote Baltic isle
Read the full article02 June 2022
Poacher turned gamekeeper: tales from Cannes 2022
Jason Solomons has been to Cannes 25 times as a reporter, critic and presenter. How would he fare at his first as a producer?
Read the full article26 May 2022
Cannes gets the wrong end of the schtick
A miscast Anthony Hopkins sets the tone as Cannes’ opening films disappoint
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