Alex Lawther

Earwig: beetles about elegantly but incoherently

• Teeth made of ice? Earwig, the first English-language effort from French cult favourite Lucile Hadžihalilović (Innocence; Evolution), certainly starts off in an intriguingly oddball place. In a labyrinthine apartment in Liège, at some time in the early-to-mid 20th century, a morose scientist called Scellinc (Paul Hilton) is at work on the dentistry of young Mia (Romane Hemelaers), whose gnashers are refrozen from her own saliva and reinserted, using custom mouth-pieces, on a daily basis.