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Phuong le

Phuong le

Film Critic at The Guardian - Online

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  • Independent Film

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Recent Articles

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Rule Breakers review – rousingly feelgood real life story of Afghan girls’ robotics team

This story of emancipated young women escaping draconian social strictures brims with enthusiasm and features a cameo from Phoebe Waller-Bridge
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Brunaupark review – housing estate dwellers vs property developers ...

This heartfelt film bears witness to a defiant community, forms a vital piece of oral history and shows the resilience of those determined to stay on
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100 Meters review – mesmerising anime of young athletes in search o...

Dazzling rotoscoped running sequences make up for a lack of narrative subtlety in Kenji Iwaisawa’s film
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Wilfred Buck review – rewarding life of Indigenous American astrono...

This hybrid documentary about the Cree astronomer offers evocative, poetic insight into a formidable community leader
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Cutting Through Rocks review – the female firebrand fighting the pa...

Sara Shahverdi refuses to accept the norms of her deeply conservative village as she becomes its first female councillor. But for every step forward, as this dynamic documentary shows, a further obstacle is thrown in her path
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Power Station review – solar power and solidarity on a Walthamstow ...

Activism merges with everyday life in a documentary where film-makers Hilary Powell and Dan Edelstyn attempt to turn their neighbourhood into a renewable power hub
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Dreamers review – powerful film about immigrant kids in the US, den...

Study of the fate of undocumented children brought to the US, now grown up and paying taxes, yet under constant threat of deportation and removal
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Limitation review – bloodshed and chaos of Georgia’s coup d’etat co...

Seaming together many different records of the civil war in the early 1990s we see a country’s fracture unfold through a crowd of partisan views
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Solo review – joyful yet heartbreaking story of drag artist consume...

Théodore Pellerin is outstanding as Simon, a performer navigating a bullying boyfriend and a distant mother in Sophie Dupuis’s sad and celebratory film
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle review – battle anim...

In the first of a film trilogy, teenage Tanjiro seeks vengeance for his murdered family in what is a great taste of things to come
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In the Nguyen Kitchen review – cooking up a heartwarming Vietnamese...

Aspiring performer Yvonne dreams aloud in candy-coloured reveries that carry the hopes of a marginalised singer in a rarely-seen Parisian community
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On the Edge review – gripping study of France’s overstretched menta...

A documentary following the only staff psychiatrist in a Paris hospital reveals both the indifference of society and a doctor’s devoted care
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Dongji Rescue review – epic tale of British PoWs saved by Chinese f...

Dongji Rescue review – epic tale of British PoWs saved by Chinese fishers gets blockbuster treatment
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The Mountains review – a beautiful portrait of a family’s attempt t...

Christian Einshøj’s debut feature unearths home video footage taken by his father, as he and his siblings explore their long-buried feelings about their brother’s death
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Gold Songs review – story of love and longing in Mozambique’s despe...

Ico Costa’s film follows a young man who leaves his sweetheart in search of better fortune in the perilous mines in the north of the country
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The Zola Experience review – life follows art as stage relationship...

When actor-director Anne Barbot embarks on an adaptation of a Zola novel with her neighbour, the gap between theatre and reality appears to collapse entirely
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Allo la France review – romance of French phone booths exposes fund...

In an endearingly whimsical road trip documentary, Floriane Devigne takes calls from her interview subjects in the last remaining phone boxes dotted across rural France
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Avant-Drag! review – queer artists light up the streets of Athens w...

Drag is a tool of self-expression and of protest in this kaleidoscopic portrait of the city’s vibrant underground art
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The Way We Talk review – sensitive drama explores deafness via thre...

Each character uses a different method of communication in Adam Wong’s drama, which benefits from the chemistry of its lead performers
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Art for Everybody review – the dark side of Thomas Kinkade, ‘painte...

The extraordinarily popular painter of kitsch American scenes struggled with addiction and depression, as this documentary with access to his previously unseen works shows
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The Road to Patagonia review – an epic journey from Alaska to the A...

Director Matty Hannon’s adventures are a dazzling cinematic homage to nature even if his environmental commentary sometimes roams a bit too freely