The 50 best films of 2025: No 20 to No 11
We continue our countdown of our favourite movies released in Ireland this year
Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Film-maker
Four new films to see this week: Blue Moon, Christy, Pillion and The Ice Tower
Ethan Hawke, Andrew Scott, Margaret Qualley, Marion Cotillard and Sydney Sweeney feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of November 28th, 2025
The Ice Tower review: Cool take on Hans Christian Andersen tale casts a hypnotic spell
Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s movie, which stars Marion Cotillard, leans into the sinister corners of coming-of-age
The Ice Tower director Lucile Hadzihalilovic: ‘Marion Cotillard has this very warm presence, but sometimes she can be cold’
Acclaimed Hans Christian Andersen adaptation has its Irish premiere this week as part of Irish Film Institute’s French film festival
Earwig: A weird and wonderful film that approaches transendence
Director Lucile Hadžihalilović's debut English-language film turns obliqueness into an art form
Lucile Hadzihalilovic: ‘I grew up in south Morocco ... there was not a lot of access to the cinema’
Filmmaker discusses her new, unusual, project Earwig and working with her partner
Evolution review: a stunningly beautiful allegory of sex and birth
Human biology goes into meltdown in Lucile Hadzihalilovic fantastic, other-worldly fable from a weird world
Lucile Hadihalilovic: ‘The first idea was the male pregnancy and the hospital’
French writer-director Lucile Hadihalilovic’s transfixing new film Evolution will subvert everything you thought you knew about procreation
ADiff review: Evolution’s strange sci-fi will blow your mind
Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s new film is an unsettling nightmarish masterpiece
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