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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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    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      InterviewFilm
      Pedro Almodóvar: ‘This is the only film where I’ve respected the rules’

      The director on casting Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal as cowboy lovers — and why his Western is a departure in more ways than one

      The director sits by a window in a hotel room looking outside
    • Monday, 11 September, 2023
      Venice Film Festival
      Poor Things richly rewarded with Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival

      Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos takes home top prize five years after coming second with ‘The Favourite’

      A pale woman with red lipstick and long dark hair looks decisive
    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      Venice Film Festival 2023 reviews
      Directors’ starring role in Venice leads to triumph and travesty

      Reviews of new films by Sofia Coppola, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Roman Polanski, Woody Allen and William Friedkin

    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      Venice Film Festival 2023 reviews
      The Killer and Hit Man go head to head at Venice Film Festival

      Michael Fassbender plays it cool in David Fincher’s latest while Glen Powell lays on the charm in Richard Linklater’s comedy

      A man in a bucket hat and gloves look through a scope across a Paris street
    • Monday, 4 September, 2023
      Venice Film Festival 2023 reviews
      Five stars for Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things — Emma Stone burns up the screen

      A surreal mash-up of Frankenstein and Pygmalion is unlike any other movie being made today

      A woman lies on a bed screaming while another woman rests her chin on her abdomen
    • Monday, 4 September, 2023
      Venice Film Festival 2023 reviews
      El Conde — Pinochet and Thatcher reborn as vampires in blood-soaked satire

      Pablo Larraín’s skewering of a monstrous figure isn’t quite a stake through the heart

      A man in a military cap and a fur coat stands huddled against the cold
    • Saturday, 2 September, 2023
      Venice Film Festival 2023 reviews
      Venice Film Festival review — Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro is a rousing rhapsody

      Bradley Cooper directs and stars in this passion project about the complex, brilliant conductor

      A man and a woman sit back to back laughing; he smokes a cigarette
    • Friday, 1 September, 2023
      Venice Film Festival 2023 reviews
      Venice Film Festival gets into gear with Ferrari and Dogman even as stars stay away

      Luc Besson offers an outré mash-up of ‘Taxi Driver’ and ‘Lassie’ but the actors’ strike dampens the mood

      A man with a beard looks serious as he holds binoculars in his hand
    • Wednesday, 26 July, 2023
      InterviewFilm
      Director Nicole Holofcener: ‘If you didn’t like my movie, why wouldn’t you lie a little better?’

      The New Yorker on her comedy-drama ‘You Hurt My Feelings’ and making the kinds of films that ‘don’t get made any more’

    • Monday, 3 July, 2023
      FT GlobetrotterThe wonder of Wimbledon
      Wimbledon 2023: the favourites, the ones to watch and the new faces

      FT Globetrotter sits down with experts from ‘The Tennis Podcast’ to get the inside scoop on this year’s hopefuls

    • Saturday, 3 June, 2023
      Person in the News
      Justine Triet, a Palme d’Or winner facing the spotlight

      The filmmaker’s critical acceptance speech has set off a furore in France

      Joe Cummings illustration of Justine Triet
    • Monday, 29 May, 2023
      Cannes Film Festival 2023
      Deserved Palme d’Or for Anatomy of a Fall at Cannes Film Festival

      French director Justine Triet takes home top award for crime drama starring Sandra Hüller

      A smiling woman holds a golden palm trophy
    • Friday, 26 May, 2023
      Cannes Film Festival 2023
      The Old Oak review — Ken Loach returns to Cannes with combative refugee drama

      A dilapidated pub in a former coal-mining village is the setting for a soapy but sincere exploration of xenophobia

      A man and woman sit in a Cathedral pew smiling at each other
    • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
      Cannes Film Festival 2023
      Cannes film reviews: Anatomy of a Fall, May December, Asteroid City, Perfect Days

      Justine Triet, Todd Haynes, Wes Anderson and Wim Wenders show their hands in the battle for the Palme d’Or

      Seen from above, a man lies in the snow with blood surrounding his head while two people lookon
    • Monday, 22 May, 2023
      Cannes Film Festival 2023
      Killers of the Flower Moon — Martin Scorsese’s epic of oil and murder is haunting

      Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio star in a film based on a true story of crime and corruption in the 1920s

      An older man wearing a hat sits at the wheel of a vehicle of the 1920s talking to a younger man who wears a hat and a jacket decorated in horizontal stripes
    • Monday, 22 May, 2023
      Cannes Film Festival 2023
      The Zone of Interest — devastating portrait of the commandant of Auschwitz

      The banality of evil is on full display in Jonathan Glazer’s stunningly good film about the family living next door to the death camp

      People in 1940s swimming costumes sit in long grass nexst to a lake
    • Monday, 22 May, 2023
      Cannes Film Festival 2023
      Firebrand — Alicia Vikander and Jude Law star in a fresh twist on Tudor history

      Law’s Henry VIII is grotesque while Vikander is graceful as his final wife, the iconoclastic Catherine Parr

      A woman in Tudor costume sits among a group of similarly dressed women
    • Friday, 19 May, 2023
      Cannes Film Festival 2023
      Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny film review — Harrison Ford rolls back the years with swagger

      Shown at the Cannes Film Festival, the movie sees our hero on familiar terrain — until the star vehicle veers off course

      A man in a fedora rides in a vehicle looking anxious; behind him are a boy and a woman
    • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
      Cannes Film Festival 2023
      Cannes Film Festival begins in the wake of scandals with Jeanne du Barry, Strange Way of Life and Monster

      Johnny Depp mumbles his way through period drama ‘Jeanne du Barry’ but Pedro Almodóvar rides to the rescue with ‘Strange Way of Life’

    • Thursday, 30 March, 2023
      ReviewFilm
      Tetris — the puzzle with an unexpectedly Le Carré-ish back-story

      Effervescent and entertaining account of the game’s addictive ascent and its Soviet origins

      In a night-time scene, two men stand smiling, one with his arm around the other’s shoulders, against a backdrop of a wall scrawled with graffiti
    • Thursday, 30 March, 2023
      ReviewFilm
      Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves — CGI wizardry played for laughs

      Chris Pine takes on a scheming Hugh Grant in an irreverent big-budget transformation of the fantasy role-playing game

      A man in medieval-style combat gear wields a sword behind his back; around him are similarly clad men and women, while a giant sits in the background
    • 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

      A street scene shows a male figure in a futuristic armoured metallic suit and helmet walking alongside a hovering metal bowl containing a small creature
    • 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

      man sitting on the ground staring at the camera
    • 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

      Canada’s Félix Auger-Aliassime serves during his match against Novak Djokovic in the 2022 Laver Cup
    • 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

      A group of adults, young people and children stand in a line in a rural location, looking determined; one man, holding a bucket, stands further forward
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