‘Passing’: Set in the 1920s, the movie centers on two African American women, friends from childhood, who can and do present as white.

‘Spencer’: Kristen Stewart stars as an anguished, rebellious Princess Diana in Pablo Larraín’s answer to “The Crown.”.

‘Summer of Soul’: Stevie Wonder, Mahalia Jackson, Mavis Staples and others shine in Questlove’s documentary about the Harlem Cultural Festival.

Scott and Manohla Dargis, selected their favorite movies of the year. Night Shyamalan’s glossy new horror fable, “Old,” which arrived in U.S.

And in a move that signals an end to her self-imposed Hollywood exile, she is also starring in M. This summer, however, Krieps, 37, is back in the spotlight, with lead roles in two movies at this year’s Cannes Film Festival (Mia Hansen-Love’s “Bergman Island” and Mathieu Amalric’s “Hold Me Tight”). The experience of being in the public eye, she said, “was almost traumatizing.” “I needed two years,” she said recently, sitting in the backyard of her family’s 200-year-old home in rural Luxembourg. Then Krieps seemed to vanish, turning down a host of Hollywood offers, including a big-budget action movie, and instead taking smaller roles, mostly in European art-house films and German television. Her performance - vulnerable, prickly, anguished - garnered critical raves and suggested the arrival of a major new talent. The Luxembourgian actress had emerged from near obscurity to star in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Phantom Thread,” in which she portrayed the tormented muse of a domineering fashion designer played by Daniel Day-Lewis.

RAMBROUCH, Luxembourg - Four years ago, Vicky Krieps seemed destined for Hollywood stardom.

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