Sight and Sound

Sjght & Sound - May 20 FEATURES 'Film is a tool: changes things' = 36 Ladj Ly's gripping Les Misérables offers a contemporary look at life in the Parisian banlieues He talks to Elena Lazic about fighting to create a space for filmmaking outside the country's often insular mainstream channels In isolation: What is happening to acting? What has acting done to happening? = 42 As viewers in the 19508 grew increasingly sophisticated and cottoned on to the artifice at the heart ofall movies they started to wise up tc self-important attempts by actors to reflect emotional truth. But as performances grew more enigmatic, a numbness crept intc them . the origins ofa seductive culture that now threatens to displace life itself writes David Thomson Swingtime in Paris = 48 Netflix drama The Eddv punctures the romantic myths of jazz culture by exploring the gritty reality of the lives of musicians and staft in club in modern- day Paris. Jonathan Romney tunes in Women with a movie camera = 54 The 14-hour documentary Women Make Film explores the art of cinema through a compilation of clips from some of the world's greatest films Its director Mark Cousins explains the project's genesis and picks ten images that highlight the full range ofits eclectic treasures REGULARS Editorial The lay of the land = 5 Rushes Coronavirus: Guy Lodge reports on the impact of the pandemic on cinema = 7 Industry: Charles Gant explores the effect of the shutdown on the box office = 9 Festivals: Nick Bradshaw signs up for CPH:DOX's 'virtual' edition = 10 #MeToo: Rebecca Liu on new films that respond to the #MeToo movement = 12 Interview: Christina Newland talks to intimacy coordinator Yarit Dor = 13 Obituary: Michael Brooke celebrates the life of the late, great Max von Sydow = 14 Dream Palaces: Fire Will Come director Oliver Laxe on Barcelona's Filmoteca de Catalunya = 16 Rising Star: Mariana di Girolamo, star of Pablo Larrain's Ema = 16 Soundings: Frances Morgan on Fatima AI Qadiri's score for Atlantics = 17 Festivals: Jessica Kiang sees promising signs at this year's Berlinale = 18 Global Spotlight: Ehsan Khoshbakht on the case of Mohammad Rasoulof = 20 Wide Angle Primal Screen: The year I920 marked the beginning of modern cinema, with The Cabinet ofDr. Caligarithe most famous among a host ofremarkable films. By Bryony Dixon = 23 Letters = 95 Endings Alex Ramon on how the conclusion of Jane Campion's 1996 The Portrait ofa Lady subverts the idea of the screen kiss = 96

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