Playing in the dollhouse

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Family and acting the part in Joachim Trier’s new film

Oonagh Dev

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The TLS Magazine

23 January, 2026

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Time Magazine Europe

Young mothers face the world with fear and tenderness

THE BELGIAN FILMMAKING DUO Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have been making observant, low-key films for so long now that it’s easy to take them for granted. Their trademark is simple: they take an inter

Prospect

Conjoined muses

This year marks the 30th anniversary of Andrew Kötting’s great British film Gallivant. Gallivant—such a word! You’d expect a romp, a lark, a knockabout. All the fun of the fair. Kötting travels around

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Taking the hawking cure

Robert Hutton on Cinema THE HAROLD PINTER THEATRE ...

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An academic on the run in 1970s Brazil; a Saharan search for a missing daughter; an animated childhood in ’60s Japan...

Time Magazine Europe

A musical about a religious zealot that’s never boring

HOW MUCH DO AMBITION AND CHUTZPAH count in filmmaking these days? The Testament of Ann Lee, directed by Mona Fastvold, is for better or worse like no other movie you’ve seen. A musical about the found