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‘Kamikaze Hearts’ Review: Truth or Fiction

Juliet Bashore’s porn-world quasi documentary is a delirious and distressing portrait of two women’s tempestuous relationship.

‘Inbetween Girl’ Review: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman

Mei Makino’s coming-of-age drama depicts an artsy, biracial high school student grappling with the guilt of sleeping with another girl’s boyfriend.

‘¿Y Cómo Es Él?’ Review: A Fraught Buddy Comedy

A jealous man tries to exact revenge on his wife’s lover, but ends up taking a road trip with him instead.

‘Cow’ Review: Dairy Cogs in the Machine

This documentary from Andrea Arnold takes an immersive approach to capturing the plight of industrial dairy cows.

‘Gagarine’ Review: Head in the Clouds

Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh re-envision the demolition of the housing project Cité Gagarine — an aspirational symbol of French communism — with a heavy...

‘Wood and Water’ Review: The Distances Between Us

In this elegant feature debut about modern alienation, the German writer-director Jonas Bak casts his real-life mother as a retired secretary who travels to Hong...

‘Jane by Charlotte’ Review: A Mother-Daughter Duet

Charlotte Gainsbourg makes her directorial debut with an elusive portrait of her mother, the French-English star Jane Birkin, at age 74.

French Female Directors Continue Hot Streak at Rendez-Vous Festival

The series returns in-person with an especially strong slate of work by Frenchwomen — fitting, given their run of honors at top festivals.

‘Against the Ice’ Review: Snow Buddies

A hard-core first half is deflated by sleepy melodrama and a formulaic script in this adventure film about the Danish explorer Ejnar Mikkelsen.

‘No Exit’ Review: Who’s Bluffing?

In this diverting thriller, a young woman discovers a kidnapping in progress while snowed in at a rest stop