THE FIVE DEVILS (I never did work out why it’s called that) is a captivating, beautiful and very weird sort-of time-travel story. The life of the Soler family is rocked when aunt Julia (Swala Emati) comes to stay and young Vicky (Sally Dramé) begins to manifest powers linked to her extraordinary sense of smell. Joanne and Jimmy’s (Adèle Exarchopoulos and Moustapha Mbengue) marriage is already on the rocks, but Julia’s return brings back a scandalous past between her and Joanne and it is up to Vicky to navigate dark visions and help her family heal. It’s serene and heartfelt but equally eerie and twisted, the raw performances and fascinatingly flawed characters keeping the magical realism more weighted towards the latter. Writer-director Léa Mysius explored the horror of rapidly losing your sight in her striking feature debut AVA, and here it’s smell as a superpower, so it’ll be fascinating to see whether she incorporates other senses as genre plot devices in the future. SSP