Garance: our lasting affair
Agnès Poirier: As a new generation can now find, the heroine of Les Enfants du Paradis isn't one you easily forget
Oslo, August 31st – review
This tale of a Norwegian drug addict's last day on Earth uses the same source material as Louise Malle's Le feu follet but lacks the latter's panache, writes Philip French
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan – review
This Chinese tale of four women leading parallel lives across the centuries is touchingly uncynical, writes Philip French
Mark Kermode’s DVD round-up
A dark Finnish take on the Christmas movie is a welcome surprise, but the less said about Jean-Luc Godard's directorial nadir the better, writes Mark Kermode
Miss Bala – review
Gerardo Naranjo's Hollywood-inflected film about a beauty queen is sexed up rather than sexy, says Peter Bradshaw
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 – review
The African American civil rights movement from Martin Luther King to Nixon is the subject of this fascinating documentary, writes Philip French
Blood in the Mobile – review
The Danish Michael Moore takes on Nokia over illegal mining in Africa in a quietly angry movie, writes Philip French
The Yellow Sea – review
Philip French enjoys a gory Korean gangster thriller set in the curious Chinese enclave of Yanbian
Hamlet/ King Lear
Grigori Kozintsev's adaptations of Shakespeare, shot on Baltic locations with fine central performaces, have worn particularly well, writes Philip French
Emily Browning: total control
She turned down the lead in Twilight and now stars in a film about sex work. Emily Browning tells Maddy Costa that yes, she knows exactly what she's doing
Amélie – review
Ten years on, this hit French film is still a little saccharine, but is a tremendous directorial tour de force, says Andrew Pulver
Mark Kermode’s DVD round-up
A near-silent film about goat farming is difficult to pitch but unforgivable to miss, writes Mark Kermode
Mark Kermode’s DVD round-up
Ayrton Senna is the subject of a spellbinding documentary, while Fred Cavayé's Point Blank offers unusually frank extras, writes Mark Kermode
La Piscine – review
Jacques Deray's languid thriller from 1969 is a tour de force of sexual longing and controlled suspense, writes Peter Bradshaw
Melancholia review – Lars von Trier’s not entirely serious film about the end of the world
Another example of von Trier’s genius for situationist wind-up, with Kirsten Dunst as a woman getting married as a giant planet crashes into Earth