Luís Urbano

Drawing the romcom in vibrant new colors, Céline Devaux switches well-worn battles of the sexes for an animated tussle between rival world views. As a relatable cynic and an eccentric optimist, Blanche Gardin and Laurent Lafitte fizz with perfect chemistry in this Cannes-selected, delightful debut.

Miguel Gomes’s dazzling two-pronged tribute to old age, memory, and classic cinema is a bewitching, often funny journey with an atmosphere all its own. Like the ingenious Arabian Nights, Tabu is nearly impossible to categorize, but one thing’s for certain: it’s an arthouse high point of the 2010s.