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The Son’s Room

Nanni Moretti's Cannes-winner is restrained and moving, with the Italian writer/director forsaking his comic urges to examine how a teenage son's death affects a family. Moretti plays the father, a psychoanalyst who, grieving, loses interest in his patients. Awkward emotions are deftly handled: Hollywood should watch this and learn.

DPZ – Turn Off The Radio

Impressive revolutionary rap from Florida

Yann Tiersen – L’absente

He helped Audrey Tautou steal your heart in Amélie, and Tiersen, like that film, evokes the passing of French iconographies (Pernod, madeleines, poujadisme) and the culture's quiet assimilation of change, with or without accordions. The slyly sentimental, Nyman-leaning postmodernism of "A Quai" and "Bagatelle" absorbs genres from Rai to post-rock but remains uniquely French. Zazou and Eno, watch your arses.

Dj Me Dj You – Can You See The Music?

Third album of kitsch psychedelic pop comes with DVD

Echoboy – Giraffe

Idiosyncratic Liverpudlian's third LP reveals pop direction

Blue Öyster Cult – A Long Day’s Night

Veterans of the Psychic Wars hammer out the soft molten metal stuff

A Boy’s Own Story

Pick'n'mix four-CD retrospective from original '80s New Popsters, including demos, remixes, rarities and previously unreleased tracks

Prince Buster – Fabulous Greatest Hits

Crown Prince of ska's classic collection gets reissued with bonus tracks as a prelude to forthcoming new material

Stings Of Desire

Affectionate homage to '40s film comedy

Time Out

Highly absorbing film about respectable family man Vincent (Aurelien Recoing) who, after losing his job as a consultant, invents a prestigious new career and betrays close friends with fictitious investment deals. Juggling fact with fiction creates ever-spiralling tensions until Vincent's double life closes in around him. A deceptively profound drama.
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