Author: Deborah Young

The mystery and ambiguity that director Andrei Zviaguintsev is known for peep out of ‘Minotaur’, in which marital betrayal and murder coincide 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.

Art and life take turns imitating each other in a long cascade of intricately interwoven stories in Asghar Farhadi’s ‘Parallel Tales’, part engrossing puzzle and part a repetitively revolving door.