Xan Brooks

Xan Brooks · 3-min read Romy Mathis owns a duplex apartment in the city and a big house in the country.

Nineties-set drama adapted from the bestselling novel zeroes in on tensions in a post-industrial community, sparked by a feud over a motorbike

Gianni Amelio’s saga is set in 1918, when a pair of Italian doctors take very different approaches to treating the wounded that pass through their wards

Lewis grappled with serious themes with The Day the Clown Cried, but as this documentary reveals, to the end he remained haunted by its failure

Walter Salles’s first drama feature since 2012 tells the story of the Paivas, whose sunny 70s existence is wrecked by the arrest and disappearance of their father

Xan Brooks · 4-min read Pedro Almodóvar's death-struck new melodrama – the great director's 23rd feature but his first in

They hate using big name voice actors and their eerie stories defy sense – yet they have seduced the likes of superfan Christopher Nolan. The identical twins explain how they have just managed to sneak out their third feature in 50 years

At this week’s Venice Film Festival, two films – the action comedy ‘Wolfs’ and the surrealist drama ‘Queer’ – saw some of acting’s most successful fifty and sixtysomething stars facing up to their own mortality. But only our most recent 007 is doing it well, writes Xan Brooks

At 74, Spain’s finest director has won the Golden Lion – incredibly, his first major victory at a film festival – for his debut English language feature. Better late than never, even if The Room Next Door isn’t quite his finest work

This ambitious, rapturous Booker-longlisted epic explores life underwater, generative AI, climate crisis and the power of play