Big Bad Wolves – review

This Israeli vigilante thriller treads a fine line between satire and sick humour, writes Mark Kermode

Floating Skyscrapers – review

Understated performances and sexual realism are a solid start for Poland's "first LGBT film", writes Peter Beech

This Ain’t California – review

A quasi-mockumentary about the fictional skateboarding scene in the old East Germany of the 1980s leads you up the garden path, writes Peter Bradshaw

The Patience Stone – review

A woman in a ruined warzone speaks her mind to her vegetative husband in this powerfully absorbing drama, writes Peter Bradshaw

Cinema Paradiso and the rise of the postcard-arthouse movie

The release of Cinema Paradiso was the point at which foreign-language film developed a new sheen for global audiences – complete with heartwarming stories and a hint of the exotic, writes Phil Hoad

Nymphomaniac trailer accidentally shown to Florida children

Cinema screens promo for Lars von Trier's explicit film before showing of Disney hit Frozen

Salvatore Cascio: ‘Cinema Paradiso is about the power of dreams’

Kicking off our coverage of the 25th anniversary of the perennially popular Italian classic, Laura Barnett catches up with Salvatore Cascio, who played the saucer-eyed Totò as a child

Jeune et Jolie – review

A vacant central performance and equally empty directorial treatment cast no light on the difficult subject of teenage prostitution, writes Mark Kermode

Marius/Fanny – review

The first two-thirds of this refilming of Marcel Pagnol's Marseilles trilogy have little of the originals' crackling, bawdy life, writes Mike McCahill

Jeune & Jolie – review

Only French cinema could get away with Jeune & Jolie. Beneath its stylish, sexy glow lies an essential absurdity and obtuseness, writes Peter Bradshaw

Marine Vacth: ‘Nudity is a costume too’

The 22-year-old model turned actress talks to Jonathan Romney about her role as a teenage prostitute in the new film by François Ozon

Top 10 movie adaptations

Adaptations of novels have regularly provided audiences with the classier end of the film spectrum. Here, the Guardian and Observer's critics pick the 10 best