Screen obsessions

Award season is over, so now is the time to embrace the best of world cinema. First up, watch Romanian breakout actress Maria-Victoria Dragus make her mark in Graduation (out 17 March), a tender and subtle Cannes Palme d’Or-winning drama about a father who is obsessed with his daughter passing her exams. Next, Basic Instinct director Paul Verhoeven brings provocative thriller Elle (out 10 March), to the big screen. Starring phenomenal Paris-born actress Isabelle Huppert, the story follows a businesswoman who sets out to snare her rapist. And don’t miss The Salesman (out 31 March). Having won an Academy Award for his first film, A Separation, Iranian writer/director Asghar Farhadi returns with another tense relationship drama.