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Interview: Ruben Ostlund (Play)
With the Un Certain Regard selected Involuntary, Swedish helmer Ruben Östlund examined the conflict of the individual within a group, three years later with the Directors’ Fortnight selected Play, a newspaper headline-grabbing true story
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Inside the 2011 Cannes Film Festival: Surprise Un Certain Regard Winners
The jury comprised of Emir Kusturica and peers caught critics by surprise in selecting a pair of unpopular Croisette items for this year’s Un Certain Regard prize. Beating out the likes of Bruno Dumont’s
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Inside the 2011 Cannes Film Festival Day 10: 21 Andrei Zvyagintsev’s Elena
Saving the best for last, it was nice to watch a world premiere for a film that had already won an award (the jury, who had seen the film before handing out the night’s
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Inside the 2011 Cannes Film Festival Day 7: Joachim Trier’s Oslo, August 31st
August 31st took place on May 18th. After soaking it up on the international circuit with 2006′s Reprise, Joachim Trier moves from what you could call the ideal calling card to a sophisticated sophomore
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Inside the 2011 Cannes Film Festival Day 7: Catalin Mitulescu’s Loverboy
And the movement known as Romanian New Wave which begin with 2005′s The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu is slowly tapering out. With less films making direct correlations to the Nicolae Ceauşescu dictatorship era, we
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Inside the 2011 Cannes Film Festival Day 6: Eric Khoo’s Tatsumi
After previously presenting Be with Me (2005) and My Magic (2008), for his third film on the Croisette, Eric Khoo brings an homage piece about a manga artist who modified the artform inserting what
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Inside the 2011 Cannes Film Festival Day 3: Gerardo Naranjo’s Miss Bala
In a departure film of sorts for the director who gave us I’m Going To Explode and Drama/Mex, Gerardo Naranjo makes the zone/border that separates California from Mexico come across as Afghanistan. Not sure
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"Ron and I wanted to make a film that looked at what it means to be an outsider and we wanted to explore what it takes to reach out to someone whose life is very removed from your own."
