At last year’s Cannes Film Festival, Chilean director Diego Céspedes emerged as one of the most striking debut voices — not only because of the emotional depth of his film
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… the kind of film that’s difficult to shake.
“I would say that I’m a decent human being with a decent amount of nightmares,” says Julia Ducournau, the French director behind cannibal drama Raw and the Cannes-winning scabrous slice
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… a beautiful work of pure male erotic fantasy …
In this regular column, we drag forgotten made-for-TV movies out of the vault and into the light. This week (just after The Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras): the 1993
Almost ten years in the making, Jessica Chastain goes behind the mascara and lip gloss of vilified American televangelist Tammy Faye Baker, to discover the woman within.