The Last Mistress

Peter Bradshaw: French period drama set amidst the intrigues of 19th-century Paris and starring Asia Argento

I’m a Cyborg

Philip French: This sees Chan-wook Park, the director of Oldboy and Lady Vengeance, change course

My Brother is an Only Child

Philip French: This is a likable, bittersweet tragicomedy about two working-class brothers living through the Sixties and early Seventies in Latina, a model town built by Mussolini

I’m a Cyborg

Peter Bradshaw: A frustrating and unsatisfying piece of work set in a psychiatric hospital

My Brother Is an Only Child

Peter Bradshaw: Daniele Luchetti's fluent, heartfelt picture shows the tremendous energy of which contemporary Italian movies are capable.

You, the Living

Philip French's film of the week: So Scandinavians don't have a sense of humour... A remarkable new Swedish comedy will make you think again

You, the Living

Peter Bradshaw: Roy Andersson has made a very funny film, but in the darkest possible way

The Witnesses

An artful, sometimes beguiling film about the onset of Aids and the radical changes it made in sex lives and friendships

El Violin

This feature debut by Mexican Francisco Vargas centres on the eternal struggle of an indigenous population against military thugs

The Orphanage

Philip French: The less you know of this film, the more you'll be surprised, shocked and, in the end, satisfied

The Orphanage

Peter Bradshaw: A shiver of fear runs right through Juan Antonio Bayona's pungent and scary film

Under the Bombs

Peter Bradshaw: A heartfelt road movie, with lacerating images of Israel's recent war in Lebanon

The Counterfeiters

Rental and retail: An Oscar-winning Austrian drama that captures the moral dilemma of Jewish forgers forced to work for the Nazi war machine