Mademoiselle Chambon – review

Philip French enjoys the touching tale of a married artisan who falls for his infant son's teacher

La Jetee/Sans Soleil

Philip French hails the innovative work of the French documentary-maker Chris Marker

Tomboy – review

A 10-year-old girl passes herself off as a boy for the summer in Céline Sciamma’s touching tale of youthful innocence, writes Philip French

Atrocious – review

Spanish police piece together amateur footage of something unspeakable in a moribund horror, writes Philip French

Post Mortem – review

This bleak piece set in Chile on the eve of Pinochet's coup becomes a relentless attempt to express the banality of evil, writes Philip French

This week’s arts diary

Kate Winslet's award-deserving vomit, plus the battle for the Golden Lion, and on the sofa with Jake Chapman

Rosel Zech obituary

Actor best known for her nuanced portrayal of a faded screen idol in Veronika Voss, directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

3-D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy – review

This insubstantial piece of Hong Kong costume porn is a yawnfest from start to finish, says Philip French

Attenberg review – deadpan and deliberately unreal, plus David Attenborough

The latest product of the Greek new wave is an intriguing oddity that suggests the troubling mind-state of a country in social and economic meltdown

Grit in the masala: Aarakshan and Bollywood’s social conscience

Bollywood audiences are turning away from aspirational films and towards once-taboo topics: poverty, corruption, the caste system. Nirpal Dhaliwal on how the mood darkened

R: Hit First, Hit Hardest – review

Though it's filmed with a degree of tough realism, there's nothing much we haven't seen before in this Danish prison drama, says Xan Brooks

The Skin I Live In – review

With this bizarre, elegant tale of a surgeon replacing his lover's skin, Pedro Almodóvar cooks up an exotic brew that no one else could ever make, says Peter Bradshaw