Among the least known filmmakers in the comp, the cinema of Jeanne Herry usually focuses on themes of care, custody and institutional responsibility, emotional repair and human connection, and looking at the construction of truth. Garance aka One Another Day is a France-Belgian co-production starring Adèle Exarchopoulos in the titular role. Her films to date include Elle l’adore (2014) – a Directors’ Fortnight selection, Pupille (2018) and All Your Faces (2023). This is story of Garance – a young actress but not a star. She manages things as best she can, finding fuel and comfort in alcohol. As she embarks for an eight-year journey of life changes, she drinks more and more.… Read the rest
Although it’s a familiar trope, an absent father utilizing a complex ruse to reunite with a child abandoned from a previous relationship, 
Somehow, despite being set in the ‘not too distant future,’ Hirokzau Kore-eda’s twee take on robotic children in Sheep in the Box manages to seem like an anachronistic blast from the past. Its title, lifted from the classic 1943 children’s novella The Little Prince, is a thematic reference to how imagination allows us to explore what really matters is on the inside. With a plot usually utilized in nightmarish genre films with robots or cloning (think B-movie drivel, such as 2004’s Godsend), a Japanese couple mourning the loss of their kidnapped son from two years prior are headhunted for a promotional offer to receive his likeness duplicated as a completely passable humanoid robot.… 
You can’t go home again and it’s a disaster to even try, especially as evidenced in Valentina Maurel’s Forever Your Maternal Animal, a dark comedy of sorts about a willfully oblivious family who could serve as a case study for attachment theory issues. Essentially a tale of a nuclear family who have long since dispensed with any sense of selflessness as regards their commitment to one another, Maurel focuses on the prodigal Elsa, returning to Costa Rica as a way to flee some relationship issues she’s experienced whilst studying abroad in Europe.… 
