Eurofile

You used to be the coolest Europeans, with the best music and culture. But cutting back the British Council and the World Service will only make you smaller on the world stage

To be in Europe is to live without boundaries. The Irish have chosen that path, and their national identity has soared

A collection of images curated by the director tells the story of protest and resistance in Britain. But who wins and who loses is only part of the story

A major exhibition in Amsterdam underscores art’s enduring power to connect cultures and bridge political divides

An older generation of music fans are putting concerts by old favourites at the heart of their city breaks

As the holiday season approaches, will tourists be welcome all over Europe – or will anti-tourism activists once again be targeting visitors?

Ballerina is a smart and stylish John Wick universe detour that weaponises grace

Forever talks about the stuff Stephen Graham’s hit show didn’t – including what we owe young people in a pornified world

A large Scandinavian Viking army landed on the East Anglian coast in 865, giving places names which remain to this day

Serious books are being written about the pop icons. But do we risk letting light in on the magic?

His life took him from the blood-stained cellars of Texas to a place in the sporting pantheon

Poster genius Dafi Kühne’s hands-on approach and playful designs create a singular vision

How did an inquiry into the laws of nature produce a form of technology capable of annihilating civilisation?

Big money and big ambitions fuel the racket sport born in a Mexican back garden

2017 OF201 is the largest object to have been found in our solar system for more than a decade

The photographer’s images of man’s ongoing mission to tame and commercialise the wild are a spectacle

In dog-obsessed Chicago, pets dominate social life and identity, leaving non-owners feeling alienated, bemused and increasingly outnumbered

The Mission: Impossible films show a man who bends the chaos of the world to his will and saves humanity. But what would Friedrich make of it all?

Jesse Armstrong’s return as writer and director of this feature-length drama has been giddily anticipated. And it does not disappoint

The modest aristocrat was perhaps aware that she wasn’t the only woman who went the extra mile in the jungles of Indochina

Children have an innate ability to learn foreign accents that is lost as they grow up... but is it always an advantage?

Crystal Palace's first-ever European campaign offers fans the opportunity of a gastronomic adventure too

She had nowhere to hide but, as both documentary and book are at pains to point out, just because she wanted to be alone it did not necessarily mean she shunned personal contact

The American indie stalwart's latest film tells the story of the making of another: Jean-Luc Godard’s À bout de souffle

Vladimir Putin banned Aleksandr Sokurov’s Fairytale - and the director has retired in protest. But the power of what might be his final movie, assembled with found footage, cannot be dimmed

Enzo Suma’s Archeoplastica project turns pollution into art shaped by the sea – to make a point

In Cannes, the story of a photographer killed by an Israeli air strike and a lo-fi thriller offer different visions of tragedy and retribution in the Middle East

Wes Anderson's latest project immerses us, once again, in his surreal but sincere emotional universe

The Imperial War Museum London’s vital, deeply uncomfortable exhibition about sexual violence in conflict