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Lebanon
(15, Samuel Maoz, 93mins)
Samuel Maoz’s debut feature is a raw and horrifying memoir of war that examines in close-up the physical and psychological torments of young men in mortal danger. Yoav Donat stars as a 19-year-old tank gunner thrust into the first Lebanon war in June 1982.
Limited release
Vincere
(15, Marco Bellocchio, 124mins)
Is it possible that Benito Mussolini was even worse than the official history makes him? Marco Bellocchio’s drama believes so, portraying Il Duce not only as the man who led Italy into the abyss but disowned his first wife and separated her from their son. Filippo Timi gives a chilling performance.
Limited release
Revanche
(15, G�tz Spielmann, 121mins)
A sad, simmering crime drama about the ill-fated plan of a barman in an Austrian brothel to make a better life for himself and his Ukrainian girlfriend. It’s a strong character piece, in which the quiet desperation of the characters’ lives comes to seem more significant than the crime that brings them together.
Limited release
Dogtooth
(18, Yorgos Lanthimos, 97mins)
Imagine a domestic sitcom directed by Michael Haneke and you’re close to imagining this linguistically and stylistically inventive Greek fable, which offers a cruel and bizarre parody of family life.
Limited release
Bad Lieutenant
(18, Werner Herzog, 122mins)
Werner Herzog’s version of Abel Ferrara’s 1992 movie stands at an angle, neither sequel nor remake. Set in post-Katrina New Orleans, it’s a film of dank, lowering skies and sickly blue dawns, with Nicolas Cage giving it the Full Kinski as a rogue cop descending a spiral of perdition.
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