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    Raphael Abraham

    Deputy Arts Editor

    Raphael Abraham writes about film and commissions arts pieces for the FT.
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    • Tuesday, 7 March, 2023
      ReviewUpstream
      The return of The Mandalorian and Star Wars’ recycling problem

      Season 3 of the streaming series finds its hero on a quest to regain status but the franchise may be relying too heavily on comebacks

    • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
      The Oscars 2023: all you need to know
      Darren Aronofsky on directing Brendan Fraser in The Whale: ‘When actors start, they all want to cry’

      The film-maker talks frankly about making work that doesn’t spare the feelings of performers or audiences

    • Friday, 13 January, 2023
      The Weekend Essay
      Can Netflix’s Break Point revitalise tennis?

      As the sport’s most decorated players bow out, a behind-the-scenes docuseries aims to bring the game to a new generation

    • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
      ReviewFilm
      Alcarràs review — bruised, bucolic film has notes of bitterness

      A family of peach growers are uprooted in Carla Simón’s second feature

    • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
      ReviewFilm
      Antonio Banderas is a cashmere-smooth Miami hitman in The Enforcer — film review

      The film’s plotline has a string of previous owners but the star rises above his tawdry surroundings

    • Friday, 16 December, 2022
      FT Weekend podcast27 min listen
      Tamagotchis and reality TV: 2023 cultural predictions

      Lilah and FT Magazine editor Matt Vella discuss listeners’ forecasts for next year. Then, FT Weekend editors share their own

    • Friday, 2 December, 2022
      Film
      International Film Festival of India ranges from noisy bravado to quiet delights

      The event in Goa showed the scope of the country’s cinema, with brash blockbusters, delicate dramas and controversial retellings of history

    • Friday, 11 November, 2022
      InterviewFilm
      Director Charlotte Wells on her debut Aftersun — the most lauded British film of the year

      The intensely personal feature about a father and daughter holidaying in Turkey wowed Cannes and is now reaping awards nominations

    • Monday, 5 September, 2022
      Venice Film Festival 2022
      The Banshees of Inisherin — Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell star in buddy break-up film

      Martin McDonagh’s blackly comic feature sets a fracturing friendship against Ireland’s tumultuous history

    • Monday, 5 September, 2022
      Venice Film Festival 2022
      The Whale review — Brendan Fraser makes a splash in Darren Aronofsky’s obesity drama

      Fraser shines, in a grotesquely large fat-suit, in the pitiless yet empathetic film

    • Monday, 5 September, 2022
      Venice Film Festival 2022
      Five stars for opioid epidemic documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

      Laura Poitras’s film is both a biography of artist Nan Goldin and an indictment of the Sackler family

    • Friday, 2 September, 2022
      Venice Film Festival 2022
      Venice Film Festival review — Bones and All shows sympathy for the diabolical

      Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet star as cannibals on a road trip through America in Luca Guadagnino’s uncannily timed film

    • Friday, 2 September, 2022
      Venice Film Festival 2022
      Venice Film Festival review — Bardo is a stream of consciousness from Alejandro G Iñárritu

      This sprawling, deeply personal film tips into self-indulgence, though there are powerful moments

    • Thursday, 1 September, 2022
      The best of Cannes Film Festival 2022
      Three Thousand Years of Longing — Idris Elba’s genie casts a spell on Tilda Swinton

      An uptight academic is swept away in George Miller’s kaleidoscopic and warm-hearted fantasy epic

    • Thursday, 1 September, 2022
      Venice Film Festival 2022
      Cate Blanchett wields the baton in Todd Field’s Tár

      Set in the rarefied world of classical music, the film follows a tightly wound conductor who dishes out plenty of stick

    • Wednesday, 31 August, 2022
      Venice Film Festival 2022
      White Noise — Noah Baumbach reworks Don DeLillo as post-Covid satire

      The Venice Film Festival opens with Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig in a black comedy about an ‘airborne toxic event’

    • Thursday, 18 August, 2022
      ReviewFilm
      My Old School — the strange tale of a 30-year-old posing as a teenage student

      Captivating documentary starring Alan Cumming recounts the real story of a Scotsman who infiltrated his alma mater

    • Thursday, 21 July, 2022
      InterviewFilm
      Olivier Assayas and Alicia Vikander on their self-aware showbiz satire Irma Vep

      Is it a movie, a series, a remake? The director and star discuss their multi-layered new work and the ‘crisis’ facing cinema

    • Wednesday, 13 July, 2022
      ReviewFilm
      McEnroe — documentary probes the mind of a volatile sporting great

      How did tennis’s most famous hothead go from scandalising the tennis world to being revered by it?

    • Friday, 8 July, 2022
      Travel
      Nail it like Nadal: the ultimate tennis holiday — coached by Rafa’s mentor

      At the Sani Resort in Greece, amateur players can train under the watchful eye of Toni Nadal, the star’s uncle and former coach

    • Saturday, 2 July, 2022
      FT GlobetrotterThe joy of tennis
      Levelling up with three top London tennis coaches

      An enthusiastic club player seeks out professional help to smooth out the kinks in his game

    • Monday, 30 May, 2022
      Film
      Cannes divides opinion with Palme d’Or winner Triangle of Sadness

      Ruben Östlund is awarded the top prize for the second time in five years for a comedy that takes aim at privilege and greed

    • Wednesday, 25 May, 2022
      The best of Cannes Film Festival 2022
      Cannes review quick bites: Dardennes’ migration drama Tori and Lokita

      Also reviewed: Park Chan-wook’s satisfying noir Decision to Leave

    • Tuesday, 24 May, 2022
      The best of Cannes Film Festival 2022
      Crimes of the Future, Cannes review — David Cronenberg returns to his body-horror roots

      Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart star in the tale of a man whose party trick is having his organs cut out

    • Monday, 23 May, 2022
      The best of Cannes Film Festival 2022
      Five stars for Aftersun at Cannes — a subtle summer marvel

      ‘Normal People’ star Paul Mescal charms in a graceful, sun-kissed story about a father and a daughter

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