A Danish drama about an unwanted pregnancy, a portrait of two nurses chasing romance in Mumbai and a Corsican mafia thriller are among other standouts from the world’s pre-eminent film festival.

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British filmmaker Andrea Arnold (American Honey) switches up her playbook with a surprisingly tender, warmhearted, magical realism-tinted story of a 12-year-old girl trying to scrape by with her younger siblings in working-class England. Thanks to the director’s magisterial knack with actors — Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski play key adult roles, while terrific discovery Nykiya Adams, as the protagonist, is in nearly every frame — the result is entrancing. — LESLIE FELPERIN

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Jia Zhang-ke’s elegiac and poetic feature revolves around a woman (the Chinese director’s longtime muse, Zhao Tao) who journeys from her home in a fading industrial city in search of a vanished former boyfriend. The movie looks back not only on China’s recent history, but also on Jia’s filmography, echoing themes, geographical features, techniques and structural elements while incorporating footage shot at various intervals from 2001 through 2023 — an approach that gives it a kind of kinship with Richard Linklater’s Boyhood. — D.R.

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