Tsotsi
Philip French: ... this deceptively simple movie brings to mind Italian neo-realist classics of the 1940s
The Ketchup Effect
Philip French: ... a touching, truthful story of teenage life in a Stockholm suburb
The Ketchup Effect (Hip Hip Hora!)
Xan Brooks: The gloomy flipside of the rites-of-passage teen genre
The Forest for the Trees
Philip French: one of the best movies about the travails of being a teacher since Une semaine de vacances 26 years ago
Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette)
Directed by Vittorio de Sica 1948, PG, Arrow
The Forest for the Trees
Andrew Pulver: A moving, if meandering, tale.
Lady Vengeance
Philip French: While not an especially edifying experience, it's one of the most exciting pictures of recent months
The Last Mitterrand
An absorbing study of the last years of the former French president.
Fate
Andrew Pulver: A quietly impressive Turkish reworking of Albert Camus' The Outsider.
Hidden
Philip French: The acting all around is outstanding, with Auteuil and Binoche working beautifully together as their marriage falls apart, expressing their emotional upheaval through the slight movement of an eye or the flicker of a lip
Hidden review – a stalker-nightmare with a shiver of the uncanny
Michael Haneke’s masterpiece: a compelling politico-psychological essay about the denial and guilt mixed into the foundations of western prosperity
Live and Become
Philip French: ... deals boldly, yet sensitively, with issues crucial to our times
Boudu Saved From Drowning
Philip French: ... a comic paean to anarchism