Author: Deborah Young

A young woman becomes obsessed with watching porn videos in Marjorie Conrad’s ‘The Joyless Economy’, a tough experiment that challenges audiences to make or withhold judgment.

The mystery and ambiguity that director Andrei Zviaguintsev is known for feel less grand in ‘Minotaur’, in which marital betrayal and murder blend with signs that the Russian war machine is creaking back to life.

Arthur Harari’s fascinating and weirdly poignant fantasy ‘The Unknown’ takes body horror to metaphysical levels when an introverted photographer and a mysterious Léa Seydoux awaken from orgasm-induced unconsciousness to find they have exchanged bodies.

Award-winning filmmaker Koreeda Hirokazu takes the children’s side in ‘Sheep in the Box’, a lean, engrossing SF story about parents who have lost their son and replace him with an android replica.