Cannes First Look review: Lola Petticrew shines in I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning’s Irish line-up

Daryl McCormack and Anthony Boyle join the actor in Clio Barnard’s portrait of friends confronting stalled lives and dashed hopes

Ali & Ava: Mature romance with emotional punch

This Yorkshire-set drama about a quietly magnetic couple is strangely joyful

Clio Barnard brings signature social realism to romcom-adjacent Ali & Ava

The Arbor director’s new film looks beyond stereotypes of working-class Britain to tell the story of people getting by

Cannes film festival 2021: Irish-produced movie secures place in prestigious Directors’ Fortnight

Element Pictures’ The Souvenir Part II stars Honor Swinton Byrne and Tilda Swinton

Dark River: Gothic study of sexual abuse in rural Britain

Review: A murder ballad that meanders toward a sudden and sadly ill-fitting end

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The Selfish Giant

Clio Barnard – “The idea that film can deliver reality is nonsense”

Cinema needs clear thinkers like Selfish Giant director Clio Barnard. Trained as a visual artist, she brings a critical eye and a seriousness of purpose to her film-making. She talks to Donald Clarke

Donald Clarke's great big autumn movie preview

What better way to get you through the dark winter nights than beneath the flickering lights of a warm movie theatre? Donald Clarke runs through all the cinema releases between now and the new year

Cannes surges into top gear

Coen brothers take poll position in the race for the Palme d’Or