The Spanish director’s first feature-length English-language film lyrically looks back over a life
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Highlights include Brady Corbet’s ‘The Brutalist’, Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas and an erotic thriller from Nicole Kidman
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The self-taught maker uses nothing but her bare hands to wrestle bulrushes into everything from floor matting to suits of armour
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Conductor Gustavo Dudamel wanted to take on the biggest challenge of all: getting hearing-impaired people into concert halls
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Director Alfonso Cuarón assembles a cast of big names in a compelling mystery
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Chichester Festival Theatre’s production has an excellent lead in Rory Keenan’s disillusioned spy
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The curator loves minimalism, the Brazilian modernists and her home in the Mantiqueira Mountains
Life, work and contemporary art come together in Nicolas Mazet and Kate Davis’s sensitive renovation of an 18th-century manor house
The British fragrance-maker talks about the emotional impact of the fifth sense and her work in paintings, books and operas
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The star captures the soprano’s intellect and pathos but joy and warmth are in short supply
Virginie Despentes uses the 18th-century epistolary form to craft a modern exploration of ageing, gender and addiction
The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra under Jakub Hrůša performed Dvořák, Suk and Janáček
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Inmates produce a stage show in prison drama ‘Sing Sing’; swashbuckling ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ is a French feast of derring-do; an absent mother leaves Swedish sisters to their own devices in ‘Paradise Is Burning’; Chinese fable ‘Black Dog’ is a tale of canine connection; ‘Touch’ is an Icelandic old-school weepie; odd-couple comedy ‘Between the Temples’ stars Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane — reviews by Stephanie Bunbury and Jonathan Romney
Erin Doherty and Sharon Duncan-Brewster are compelling as women in an awkward family relationship