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The pick of this month’s cinematic crop includes Alex Garland’s first film as co-director, and an enigmatic new tale from Georgian visionary Dea Kulumbegashvili From April 18In conversation with AnOther for Civil War, his surprisingly straight-laced sci-fi action flick of last year, Alex Garland spoke of his admiration for the old-school, “just the facts” mode of news reporting.

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As his provocative new film about a priest and murderer is released, Alain Guiraudie talks about death, nature, and the great mystery of desire We’re in a blandly upmarket hotel in central London, the kind where Queen’s Don’t Stop Me Now pipes softly from the function-room PA for no particular reason, and Alain Guiraudie is explaining to me the importance of seeing a priest’s erection in his new film, Misericordia.

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Dan Erickson’s surrealist workplace drama rediscovered its mojo after a tricky second series, even if some mysteries are best left unsolved And, bam! After seven hours in which it sparked, guttered and threatened to lose its way completely, the second season of Severance exploded into life with a finale that made good on its missteps. Am I the only one who felt this way about the new instalment of Dan Erickson’s surrealist workplace show?

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From Bong Joon Ho’s wild new sci-fi to a darkly comic thriller from Stranger by the Lake director Alain Guiraudie, here are the best of this month’s releases From March 7Why do we kill ourselves to get up and go to work each day? And what does work in the always-on, low-security marketplace of today do to our abiding sense of self? These are questions teased – but only fitfully dealt with – in Mickey 17, Bong Joon Ho’s latest blockbuster skewering of the age of inequality.

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As his darkly funny tale about a neurotic south London matriarch hits cinemas, Mike Leigh talks about making audiences uncomfortable, and how algorithms are changing cinemaLead Image When Rob Brydon roared, “Secrets and lies, Gwen, secrets and lies!” in the final episode of Gavin and Stacey this Christmas, he merely confirmed what those in the know, know: that Mike Leigh is the absolute goat when it comes to a certain strain of British character comedy.