Eric Lavallée

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society), FIPRESCI and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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Day 8: Live from Cannes: Friend 4 Life in ‘Wendy And Lucy’

Among one of the rare U.S film in the sidebars this year comes the Un Certain Regard selected, regular snail mail accepted entry from Old Joy's Kelly Reichardt. Once again working with very little resources, Wendy and Lucy is a road movie minus the road and becomes a film that confronts our own inability to depend on strangers

Day 8: Live from Cannes: Nasty human habits in Egoyan’s ‘Adoration’

Falling into a talkie kind of screenplay, Atom Egoyan's Adoration is by far his best work since The Sweet Hereafter. This is about goring...

Day 8: Live from Cannes: Two for the Price of One with ‘Che’

Four hours and twenty eights minutes. A bruising film-watching experience that was prolonged by an intermission rewarded with this lunch bag we find below. My first impressions pretty much falls more or less in line with the consensus

Day 8: Live from Cannes: Revolution number 10 with ‘Maradona by Kusturica’

Both filmmaker and soccer legend have a profound love for the sport that made the Argentinean into a soccer god, but perhaps its their...

Day 8: Live from Cannes: Man vs. Nature occurs in the ‘Delta’

With nature overwhelming taking over the frame, comparisons to Terrence Malick's work are inevitable and justified for this Hungarian feature by Kornel Mundruczó. This mid day screening (one day late) screening for Delta caught me by surprise - ugliness and beauty co-exist here. In this film and I imagine in far away scapes like the setting of this picture, such issues like rape and incest come without consequences - almost normalized course of human nature. The ugliness is then outmatched by great cinematography capturing the weather patterns, canoed surroundings, long grass.

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