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Life changes as it happens. Mia Hansen-Løve’s One Fine Morning takes the various compartments of a woman’s life and allows them to act naturally, which is to say, to change: shifting, recurring and reflecting back on each other in ways that feel true to that life. It’s a life situated …

Alice Diop’s Saint Omer is a movie about a trial. But it is not strictly concerned with the question of innocence or guilt as a problem of the law. Far more complex, the movie finds, is the problem of how we should feel about the moral authority of the question …