A musical about a religious zealot that’s never boring

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

Nouvelle Vague Various cinemas Blue Moon Available on streaming services Though cinema is the youngest art form – the tenth Muse, or seventh art, as the French have sometimes called it – it isn’t nece

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

Robert Hutton on Cinema THE HAROLD PINTER THEATRE ...

For 11 or 12 days in 1654, Anna Trapnel, a self-styled prophet from Poplar, lay in a stupor in an inn near Whitehall. With her eyes shut and her body unmoving, she spoke and sang prophecies to the cro

BIG SCREEN RELEASES