

Beatrice Loayza
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‘The Devil’s Bath’ Review: Madwoman in the Cottage
This stark psychological horror movie tracks the mental deterioration of an 18th-century peasant woman.

‘Solo’ Review: Listen to Your Heart
Sophie Dupuis’s sensitive French Canadian drama takes a turn when a young, starry-eyed drag queen (Théodore Pellerin) opens up to questionable figures.

‘Coma’ Review: A Labyrinthine Lockdown Movie
Bertrand Bonello’s latest horror film, dedicated to his teenage daughter, pushes the boundaries of the conventional pandemic movie.

‘A Prince’ Review: Let New Passions Bloom
Sex, death and domination fuel this beautifully enigmatic pastoral drama from France, which presents the gay coming-of-age of an apprentice gardener.

‘Slow’ Review: We Don’t Have to Take Our Clothes Off
The second feature by the Lithuanian filmmaker Marija Kavtaradze asks what a relationship looks like when you factor out the sex.

‘Omen’ Review: Life in a Different Space-Time Continuum
This trippy ensemble drama set in Kinshasa explores Congolese society through magical realism.

‘The Beast’ Review: Master of Puppets
Bertrand Bonello’s latest film, starring Léa Seydoux and George MacKay as lovers in three different eras, is an audacious sci-fi romance.

‘On the Adamant’ Review: A Psychiatric Facility on the Seine
This documentary by Nicolas Philibert drifts along, with unnamed patients and their caretakers, on a large houseboat in Paris.

Radu Jude Brings TikTok’s Chaos to the Movies
Radu Jude’s films are messy mash-ups of art, literature, advertising and social media, with some dirty jokes thrown in.

‘Femme’ Review: Bad Lovers
In this white-knuckle thriller set in London, a drag performer seduces his attacker, an intensely closeted hustler played by George MacKay.