The Baader Meinhof Complex

A sprawling, episodic and interminable 70s period drama, ploddingly comparable to Steven Spielberg's Munich

Let’s Talk About the Rain

Agnès Jaoui's atmospheric movie reveals the fault lines and culture clashes in Gallic middle-class life

Let’s Talk About the Rain

There is no real clarity or narrative force: it looks like a foggy idea devised through improvisation

Quiet Chaos

I enjoyed this movie, partly because of the lovely autumnal ambience and Moretti's easy charm

Quiet Chaos

A curious, sometimes diverting, often affected little cine-chamber piece

Italian government to sell final stake in Cinecitta

Legendary studios that played host to such epics as Ben Hur and Quo Vadis as well as most of Federico Fellini's oeuvre will entirely be under private control for the first time

Gomorra film author to leave Italy after mob death threats

Roberto Saviano says two years living under close protection have left him 'suspicious and wary'

In praise of … Roberto Saviano

Editorial: Few authors have rubbed the mafia up the wrong way quite as badly as the author of Gomorrah

Bigga Than Ben: A Russian’s Guide to Ripping Off London

This is a sketchy, intermittently funny, enterprising comedy about two young Russians, self-styled 'Moscow scum', living by their wits in London

Film trailer: Gomorrah

Matteo Garrone's look at Italy's modern-day crime families

I’ve Loved You So Long

Enough material for a whole soap opera season is miraculously reduced to feature length

Film trailer: Alexandra

An elderly woman visits her grandson at his army camp in Chechnya

The Wave

Fantastically shallow, fatuous, naive and obtuse

Linha de Passe

Heartfelt, well acted and confidently shot

Film trailer: The Wave

Drama about a school teacher who livens up a lesson about autocracy and fascism with an experiment that soon gets out of hand