Sight and Sound

Marion Cotillard: Blood, sweat and tears : One of France’s biggest-ever global stars, the actor thrives in melancholy, bitter-sweet roles in both Hollywood blockbusters and auteur fare. By Ginette Vincendeau = 44 REGULARS Editorial : Island in the stream = 5 Rushes On Our Radar: coming attractions = 6 Interview: Kelli Weston discusses the harrowing documentary The Rape of Recy Taylor with director Nancy Buirski = 8 The Numbers: Charles Gant on the triumphant success of Love, Simon = 9 Animation: Nick Bradshaw meets Nora Twomey, shoes The Breadwinner is a moving story of youthful resilience = 10 Dispatches: Mark Cousins puts himself in Jacqueline Audry’s shoes = 13 Wide Angle Observations: Elena Gorfinkel explores what filmmakers have made of sleep = 14 Profile: Nick Pinkerton dives into virtual reality through the trailblazing art of Rachel Rossin = 17 Festivals : Tony Rayns reports from Hong Kong, where Beijing’s influence is being felt = 19 Letter = 95 Endings : Philip Kemp marvels at the enigmatic finale of Michelangelo Antonioni’s The Passenger= 96 FEAUTERS COVER FEATURE DEEP FOCUS: The other side of 80s America : Beyond the ‘high concept’ spectacles and cartoonish action of much 80s cinema were the personal, often overlooked films that revealed the other side of Reaganism’s patriotic bluster and hollow optimism. By Nick Pinkerton PLUS Anne Billson on the low-budget genre movies that exposed the underbelly of Reagonomics = 20 Burden of dreams : Lucrecia Martel’s enthralling Zama follows an 18th-century bureaucrat desperate to escape his post in Paraguay, in a pitiless portrait of the colonial project. By Jonathan Romney PLUS Nick James talks to Martel = 32 Thoroughly modern mädchen : The female character in the silent and early sound films of the Austrian director G.W. Pabst are rebellious, sexual, intelligent and often outrageous. By Pamela Hutchinson PLUS Bryony Dixon on a fascination clip of Louise Brooks in colour in the lost film The American Venus = 38 FILMS OF THE MONTH Jeune femme = 52 Redoubtable = 54 That Summer = 56 FILMS Allure = 58 L’Amant double = 58 Anon = 59 Another News Story = 60 Blockers = 61 The Breadwinner = 61 A Cambodian Spring = 62 The Cured = 63 The Deminer = 64 Edie = 64 Entebbe = 65 The Filmworker = 66 How to Talk to Girls at Parties = 66 Ismael’s Ghosts = 67 Lean on Pete = 68 The Leisure Seeker = 69 Mansfield 66/67 = 69 Mary and the Witch’s Flower = 70 My Friend Dahmer = 71 New Town Utopia = 71 On Chesil Beach = 72 The Outsider = 73 Pacific Rim: Uprising = 73 A Quiet Place = 74 Ready Player One = 75 Revenge = 76 The Strangers: Prey at Night = 77 That Good Night = 77 Truth or Dare = 78 The Wild Boys = 79 Young Karl Marx = 80 Zama = 81 HOME CINEMA La Chinoise, Gumshoe, Films by Ray Harryhausen, Legend of the Mountain, La Note Bleue, Otley, Seijun Suzuki: The Early Years Volume 2, They Came to a City, Der Todesking, Town on Trial, Viva l’Italia = 84 DVD features : Nick Pinkerton sinks his teeth into the pure emotion of Jean Rollin’s poetic horror movies = 82 Revival: Adam Scovell finds a rich trove of insights in a box-set of Derek Jarman’s early work = 87 Television : Robert Hanks detects fun in The Rivals of Sherlock Homes = 89 Lost and Found: Alex Davidson revisits Lina Wertmüller’s Seven Beauties = 90 BOOKS Ben Walters applauds a collection of essays tackling the polymath genius of Orson Welles = 92 Michael Brooke dips into a massive tome on Lucio Fulci, master of giallo – and far, far more = 93

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