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2013 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 9: Kechiche’s Blue is the Warmest Colour

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2013 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 9: Kechiche’s Blue is the Warmest Colour Eric Lavallee May 23, 2013 0

Ang Lee won the Golden Lion at 2007′s Venice Film Festival for Lust, Caution, beating out Abdellatif Kechiche’s far more critically appreciated The Secret of the Grain (which would win best emerging actress and

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Behind the Candelabra | Review

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Behind the Candelabra | Review Nicholas Bell May 22, 2013 0

Sex, Lies, & Biopic: Soderbergh Bids Adieu With Sincere, Compelling Flair In what will reportedly be director Steven Soderbergh’s last directorial effort in the film realm, Behind the Candelabra stands as a superb high

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Shield of Straw | Cannes Review

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Shield of Straw | Cannes Review Nicholas Bell May 21, 2013 0

Burnt Offerings: Miike’s Latest Can’t Quite Reach Satisfying Blaze That audacious auteur of excess, Takashi Miike, unveils his latest offering, Shield of Straw to be a surprisingly straight laced police narrative that’s notably unfettered

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2013 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 7: Sorrentino’s La Grande Bellezza

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2013 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 7: Sorrentino’s La Grande Bellezza Eric Lavallee May 21, 2013 0

One week into the fest and the double bill appears to be a strong one – we find Steven Soderbergh’s last feature film (I’m betting we won’t wait as long as Alejandro Jodorowsky to

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2013 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 5: Coen Bros.’ Inside Llewyn Davis

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2013 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 5: Coen Bros.’ Inside Llewyn Davis Eric Lavallee May 19, 2013 0

Almost fitting that it was raining “cats” and dogs during the queuing up portion to yesterday’s early-lead press screening at the Debussy for the Coen Bros.’ latest, perhaps riskiest film in recent memory includes

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2013 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 4: Arnaud Desplechin’s Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian)

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2013 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 4: Arnaud Desplechin’s Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian) Eric Lavallee May 18, 2013 0

Benicio Del Toro plays a post-traumatic, migraine not-too-happy patient, while Mathieu Amalric takes on the role of the sympathetic, non-traditional psychotherapist in Arnaud Desplechin’s first foray into English-language territory. An oddly subdued, oddly titled

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Like Father, Like Son | Review

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Like Father, Like Son | Review Nicholas Bell May 17, 2013 0

Blood Ties: An Elegant, Yet Familiar New Film from Koreeda Children switched at birth and discovered years after the error is the well-worn melodramatic scenario that master filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda manages to make potentially

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The Past | Cannes Review

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The Past | Cannes Review Nicholas Bell May 17, 2013 Comments Off

Heavy, Heavy Hangs: Farhadi’s Latest a (mostly) Worthwhile Endeavor For his first film made outside his native country, Iranian director Asghar Farhadi unveils his latest exercise in domestic unrest with the French language The

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2013 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 2: Amat Escalante’s Heli

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2013 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 2: Amat Escalante’s Heli Eric Lavallee May 17, 2013 0

By the fest’s end in about nine days from now, we might pointing to the first film that showed during the ’13 edition as the “L’enfant terrible” selection of the fest. Amat Escalante’s Heli

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2013 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 2: Francois Ozon’s Young & Beautiful (Jeune & Jolie)

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2013 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 2: Francois Ozon’s Young & Beautiful (Jeune & Jolie) Eric Lavallee May 16, 2013 0

For a third consecutive year, we bring back our twice daily, five-star system, critical snapshot of the Main Competition selected films (16 films in all) as rated by our group of 16 film critics.

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Jeune et Jolie | Cannes Review

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Jeune et Jolie | Cannes Review Blake Williams May 16, 2013 0

Airy & banal, Ozon’s Latest is as Indistinct as its Title Moving right along the trajectory we’re all well familiar with by now, François Ozon makes yet another sexed-up François Ozon film with this

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The Fruit Hunters | Review

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The Fruit Hunters | Review Jordan M. Smith May 16, 2013 0

Finding The Forbidden: Chang Indulges In Produce It seems that for some, the appetite for rare and exotic fruits extends far beyond mere curious fascination and well on into the realm of impassioned obsession.

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Top 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes 2013: Clio Barnard’s The Selfish Giant

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Top 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes 2013: Clio Barnard’s The Selfish Giant Eric Lavallee May 15, 2013 0

The Selfish Giant – Clio Barnard Section: Directors’ Fortnight Buzz: Coming to the Croisette with one of the most anticipated sophomore films, Barnard’s multiple festival award-winning debut, experimental, bio-documentary The Arbor (2010) put her

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Top 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes 2013: Lynne Ramsay’s Swimmer

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Top 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes 2013: Lynne Ramsay’s Swimmer Eric Lavallee May 15, 2013 0

Swimmer – Lynne Ramsay Section: Directors’ Fortnight Buzz: Seeing that the wait time between films can be a lengthy one, We Need to Talk About Kevin director would be in the middle of lensing

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Top 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes 2013: Chloé Robichaud’s Sarah préfère la course

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Top 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes 2013: Chloé Robichaud’s Sarah préfère la course Eric Lavallee May 15, 2013 0

Sarah préfère la course – Chloé Robichaud Section: Un Certain Regard Buzz: The Quebecois wunderkind appears to have made quite the impression on the Cannes family, gaining entry into a coveted Un Certain Regard

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Top 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes 2013: Amat Escalante’s Heli

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Top 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes 2013: Amat Escalante’s Heli Eric Lavallee May 15, 2013 0

Heli – Amat Escalante Section: Main Competition Buzz: Steadily guided by Cannes’ fest head honcho Thierry Fremieux, Amat Escalante receives a major big stage showing for his long-awaited third film (worth noting it was

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Top 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes 2013: Katell Quillévéré’s Suzanne

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Top 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes 2013: Katell Quillévéré’s Suzanne Blake Williams May 15, 2013 0

Suzanne – Katell Quillévéré Section: Critics’ Week Buzz: I know her debut feature, Love Like Poison, left a lot to be desired for many, but based solely on the strength of her short film

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Top 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes 2013: Lav Diaz’s Norte, the End of History

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Top 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes 2013: Lav Diaz’s Norte, the End of History Blake Williams May 15, 2013 0

Norte, the End of History – Lav Diaz Section: Un Certain Regard Buzz: Buzz: Lav Diaz can get ghetto-ized as that Filipino director who makes obscenely long films (which, his films really are often

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Top 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes 2013: Sébastien Pilote’s The Dismantling

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Top 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes 2013: Sébastien Pilote’s The Dismantling Blake Williams May 15, 2013 0

The Dismantling – Sébastien Pilote Section: Critics’ Week Buzz: Wholly unassuming, as most Québécois films tend to be outside of Quebec, Sébastien Pilote made perhaps the best Canadian film of 2011 with his strong

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Top 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes 2013: Alain Guiraudie’s Stranger by the Lake

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Top 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes 2013: Alain Guiraudie’s Stranger by the Lake Blake Williams May 15, 2013 0

Stranger by the Lake – Alain Guiraudie Section: Un Certain Regard Buzz: Alain Guiraudie is one of the most interesting French filmmakers almost no one in North America has heard of, winning the praises

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Top 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes 2013: Claude Lanzmann’s The Last of the Unjust

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Top 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes 2013: Claude Lanzmann’s The Last of the Unjust Blake Williams May 15, 2013 0

The Last of the Unjust – Claude Lanzmann Section: Out of Competition Buzz: The guy who made Shoah made this. Period. The Gist: 1975. In Rome, Claude Lanzmann filmed a series of interviews with

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Top 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes ​2013: ​Kaveh Bakhtiari’s L’escale

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Top 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes ​2013: ​Kaveh Bakhtiari’s L’escale Moen Mohamed May 15, 2013 0

L’escale – Kaveh Bakhtiari Section: Directors’ Fortnight Buzz: The first feature film from Swiss-Iranian director, Kaveh Bakhtiari, documents the plight of illegal immigrants from Iran living in Greece, where they are in transit until

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Top 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes ​2013: ​Fabio ​​Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza’s Salvo

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Top 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes ​2013: ​Fabio ​​Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza’s Salvo Moen Mohamed May 15, 2013 0

Salvo – Fabio ​​Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza Section: Critics’ Week Buzz: ​A first feature film from Sicilian directors, Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza, selected for Critics’ Week, it is a crime noir with a

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Top 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes ​2013: Katrin Gebbe’s Tore Tanzt

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Top 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes ​2013: Katrin Gebbe’s Tore Tanzt Moen Mohamed May 15, 2013 0

Tore Tanzt- Katrin Gebbe Section: Un Certain Regard Buzz: This first feature film from German filmmaker, Katrin Gebbe, is an exploration of a young man’s increasingly dangerous liaison with a religious Christian punk group,

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Top 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes 2013: Anurag Kashyap’s Ugly

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Top 20 Alternative Picks for Cannes 2013: Anurag Kashyap’s Ugly Moen Mohamed May 15, 2013 0

Ugly – Anurag Kashyap Section: Directors’ Fortnight Buzz: Not a stranger to prolific film festivals, Anurag Kashyap’s films have debuted in Venice (Dev D), Toronto (That Girl in Yellow Boots) and most recently last

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