Manuel Dacosse

Lars von Trier has never been shy to burnish his reputation as the malevolent puppet master of his protagonists’ misfortune, but never quite so literally as in this playful documentary. One of the great films about filmmaking, The Five Obstructions is a reflexive marvel of cinematic problem solving.

The stylish and immaculately crafted Double Lover attests to François Ozon’s reputation as a master of the erotic thriller. With daring performances from Marine Vacth and Jérémie Renier, this hallucinatory treat plays its psychosexual games of cat-and-mouse in the spirit of Hitchcock and De Palma.