Domains review – eerie echoes of a world in isolation

This stark, experimental drama about a woman in a troubled marriage who reconnects with an old friend is the first movie of the coronavirus era

Fire Will Come review – emotional Spanish drama

An arsonist falls under suspicion in a Galician village in Oliver Laxe’s Cannes prize-winner

Dogs Don’t Wear Pants review – alarming antics in the sex dungeon

The hardcore story of a grieving surgeon who embarks on an odyssey of forbidden pleasures is intriguing but hard to watch

The Truth review – mothers, memory and an imperious Catherine Deneuve

A legendary movie star’s dubious memoirs outrage her daughter – played by Juliette Binoche – in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s stylish, seductive family drama

Fire Will Come review – pyromaniac’s tale obscured by smoke

Oliver Laxe’s drama about a fire-starter in rural Spain is visually arresting but exasperating as a piece of storytelling

Bacurau review – wildly entertaining Brazilian weirdness

A rural community comes under attack in a thriller with anticolonial overtones

And Then We Danced review – freewheeling story of secret love

Levan Akin’s terrific romance about two male dancers in Tbilisi is electrifying in its physicality and fervent in its storytelling

Bacurau review – ultraviolent freakout in Brazil’s outback

This disquieting horror-style western about a town under siege from a mysterious threat is executed with ruthless clarity

Strangulation, asphyxiation, rubber: making the BDSM romcom Dogs Don’t Wear Pants

Finnish director Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää ensured that his new film was torture for his actors – literally. But he insists his immersive methods are just like gardening

Vitalina Varela review – secrets and lies amid the ruins

Vitalina Varela stars as herself in Pedro Costa’s bleak but beautiful film about a woman discovering the hidden life of her late husband

Immortal Hero review – silly vanity project made in bad faith

The self-produced film by faith leader Ryuho Okawa is woefully misjudged and reveals the laughable reality behind Happy Science

Poland’s world-beating new film-makers: ‘We have a common enemy’

From Kieślowski to Munk, Polish film has a mighty past. Yet can today’s auteurs survive the interference of a government hostile to ‘whingeing, arty stuff’ that shows the world as ambiguous’?

Streaming: the best film at Cannes 2019 not to win a prize?

Diao Yinan’s dazzling The Wild Goose Lake is now available to stream – joining some of this fine director’s earlier work

Giving millionaires the boot: why Cahiers du Cinéma editors quit en masse

Staff of the magazine that kicked off the French New Wave say its new elite owners pose a threat to editorial independence

It’s about time film began representing the lesbian gaze

In Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire, we finally steer away from seeing intimacy through the male gaze