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Starring Sandra Höller, a German novelist on trial for her husband’s murder, French director Justin Triet’s Palme d’Or winner is very rich: part legal procedural, part complex woman portrait, part shot at a marriage on the brink and part coming-of-age novel. above all, Fall Anatomy It is about the intrinsic inability to know a person, a relationship, and the dangerous impossibility of trying to understand–whether a child is baffling his parents or a courtroom is straining to understand a shadowy suspect. – John Frosch

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Wim Wenders’ latest 3D documentary presents a fascinating cinematic catalog of German painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer’s highly tactile and maximalist works. as in BinaWenders’ luminous 2011 tribute to the late ballerina choreographer Pina Bausch, the director makes the best possible case for art-house theaters to keep their collection of 3D projections up-to-date: this is one of those rare films that is actually enriched with the use of the format rather than an excuse for a gimmicky thrill ride for the easygoing. They have to be amused or very young. – Leslie Felperin

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The location of Anthony Chen’s intimate and satisfying film – the icy Chinese city of Yanji, near the North Korean border – eloquently underscores the circumstances of the film’s protagonists, whose lives are suspended as if frozen in place. The characters are a woman and two men in their twenties (played with remarkable restraint and impeccable naturalness by Zhou Dongyu, Liu Haoran, and Qu Chuxiao) entangled in a quasi-love triangle and afflicted by an anxiety that is rarely expressed. Their moments of introspection reveal as much as they mask it. – David Rooney

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Italian director Alice Rohrwacher’s bizarre, lyrical and exuberantly lyrical film revolves around a fascinating pocket community: Tomparoli, the illegal grave robbers who dig up Etruscan antiquities and make their money selling those antiquities to the Walls, who in turn sell them to museums and collectors for much higher sums. Josh o’connor is great in the central role of the haunted englishman who was Tomparoli Considered a kind of mystic, he is able to mark the fruitful sites to dig with a forked tree branch that acts as a sacred rod. – doctor

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It’s been 31 years since Spanish director Victor Ayres made his last feature film, and it was well worth the wait. The protagonist is an aging filmmaker and novelist (Manolo Solo), who, like Eric, hasn’t made a film in decades, and now lives like a hermit in a village on the Spanish coast. Deliberately paced but building in force, this poignant and vibrant work builds to a crescendo in the closing act as the film itself plays a pivotal role, reviving forgotten lives and memories as only cinema can. Jordan Montzer

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Argentinian filmmaker Rodrigo Moreno’s enigmatic three-hour heist begins as a fun crime thriller about two bank employees trying to free themselves from the daily grind. But then, he digs out, deepens and complicates, creating new mysteries out of old mysteries and love affairs out of thin air. The closely hidden epic is an acquired taste that requires patience, but for those willing to accept its meandering rhythms and puzzle-like structure, it offers many rewards. – Jm

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Finnish educator Aki Kaurismäki has been in retrospect with his first film in six years, a thin but deeply satisfying tragicomedy about two lonely blue-collar people stuttering toward what could be love. At just 81 minutes, this jury prize-winner’s third-place finish may be slight compared to many of Kaurismäki’s more complex novels, but the good feeling of it sneaks up on you and delivers a good share of risqué lines with a wagging aplomb. – doctor

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Brazilian director Karim Ainouz’s suspenseful and suspenseful historical drama – his first film in English – depicts Henry VIII’s sixth and final wife, Catherine Parr, as she tries to avoid dismemberment. Despite being steeped in the bleak atmosphere of a plague-stricken country ruled by a tyrant, the film is alive with a strong contemporary attitude, providing a pair of lead roles for Alicia Vikander (in her best performance since machine ex) and the fearsome mercurial Judas Law as the sick king. – doctor

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In her heartbreaking documentary, Kawthar Ben Hania calls on professional actors to recreate the devastating experience of a Tunisian woman after she lost her two eldest daughters, who fled to join the Islamic State in Libya. By presenting memories as scenes and mixing them with re-enactments of interviews with family members left behind, the director builds a captivating story about memory, motherhood and the inherited traumas of a patriarchal society. – Luvia Jarky

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Director Cedric Kahn’s raucous, suspenseful courtroom drama revisits the 1975 trial of French radical left-winger Pierre Goldman, accused of murdering two pharmacists and subjecting police to blatant anti-Semitism. Franco-Belgian actor Aryeh Wortalter stars in the title role, convincing us of Goldman’s innocence, not to mention his commitment to political causes, long before the trial ends. The suspense is whether the jury will agree with us. – Jm

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Catherine Corsini’s erotic drama stars Susie Bemba and Esther Johorou, two sisters who return home to Corsica for the summer with their mother (Aïssatou Diallo Sagna), who works as a governess for a wealthy Parisian family. The film transitions flawlessly between the characters, tracing their separate arcs while digging into their shared tragic past. There is nothing new about the story, but it feels fresh because of the actresses who bring great charisma to their roles. – Jm

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Three British high school graduates’ summer trip to Greece takes a devastating turn when one of them is sexually assaulted in Molly Manning Walker’s quietly stunning debut, which won this year’s Un Certain Regard sidebar. Mia McKenna Bruce presents a powerful portrait of a young woman grappling with the dawning reality of what happened to her, as well as the changing dynamics between her and two friends who struggle to make sense of her changing situation. – LG

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Based on David Grann’s non-fiction book, Martin Scorsese’s gripping account of the systematic disposal of oil-rich Native Americans in early 1920s Oklahoma is a sprawling, densely plotted tale of spiraling tragedy that never loosens its grip. The terrific Leonardo DiCaprio plays a weakling man tormented by his role in the nefarious plot hatched by his rancher uncle (Robert De Niro) — but the revelation is the quirky Lily Gladstone as the Osage woman unfortunate enough to marry him. – doctor

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Using a scale model of her childhood neighborhood and figurines to represent family, friends, and neighbors—many of whom are interviewed here—Moroccan documentary filmmaker Asmaa El Moudder takes a folksy, hands-on approach to unraveling the many mysteries of her debut. The result is a sly, often hilarious, and ultimately poignant study of society, generational suffering and state-wracked atrocities that blends non-fiction style with originality and polished storytelling skill. – Lf

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Without interviews or archival material, Steve McQueen’s provocative four-hour-plus documentary combines an elegant portrait of contemporary Amsterdam with a realistic oral account of the city during its occupation by Germany. The film contains a comprehensive Holocaust history magnum as Max Ophuls’ Sadness and pity. But its perspective is fresh, eschewing nonfiction habits to dig into the exact place where the ghosts of history linger–and spark something more complex than sentimental. Sherry Linden

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In this eloquent, emotionally rich character study of Wim Wenders—his best feature film in years—Koji Yakusho (best actor winner in this version) plays a middle-aged Tokyo man who has reduced his life to a routine service. and small pleasures. It’s a film of deceptive simplicity, observing the minutiae of existence with such clarity, passion, and empathy that they build up cumulative strength almost without you noticing. – doctor

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Where else but France would be the setting for one of the most artistic home food porn films to come in a while? Starring Benoît Magimel and Juliette Binoche as 19th-century gourmets and his longtime cook and lover, the new film from Tràn Anh Hùng (best director winner in this version) captures delicacies like edible tableaus that are exquisitely made, combining the masterpieces of Cooking with a touching tale of middle-aged love. – Jm

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Pedro Almodóvar’s picturesque half-hour Western features smoldering turns by Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal as former lovers — a mayor and a rancher, respectively — who meet again after 25 years. The Spanish Master packs the short time with more depth of feeling and an evocative atmosphere than most directors manage in a full feature. – doctor

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Inspired by the rhyming complexity of a classic form of Persian poetry, writers and directors Ali Asghari and Alireza Khatami create a thoroughly modern work of brevity and elegance. Each of the interlocking slices bumps into a resident of Tehran as they try to reason with a government bureaucrat or an authority figure. The situations the film’s protagonists face are specific to Iran, but their spiraling madness is global. The film pulsates with sadness and anger at the absurdity of tyrannical dictates that crush souls. – M

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Based on the 2014 novel by Martin Amis, this German-language film from director Jonathan Glazer (second festival Grand Prize winner) is a devastating Holocaust drama like no other, proving the British author’s unerring control of tonal and visual storytelling. Focusing on the family of a high-ranking SS officer living their rural dream life outside of Auschwitz, it’s a stunner that somehow makes its fantastic surveillance style all the more chilling. – doctor

A version of this story first appeared in the May 24 issue of The Hollywood Reporter. Click here to subscribe.