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2011 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10 – Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive
I remember when they announced the titles for this year's Main Competition and being baffled/puzzled by the inclusion of Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive. Yesterday we found out why it was deserving selection alongside the 19 other competing titles. Starring a soft/angry Ryan Gosling, this is a genre mixer with references/homages to Bullit, Michael Mann's nocturnal cityscapes and it embodies the viciousness of Cannes' winner Oldboy. A film that will won't work for some, but for others this is a game changer -- three folks gave this a perfect score.
Inside the 2011 Cannes Film Festival Day 10: 21 Andrey 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,...
Inside the 2011 Cannes Film Festival Day 8: Justin Kurzel’s Snowtown
If there is anything especially hopeful in this bleak, off-putting in the queasy kind of way portrait of a serial killer is the assured...
2011 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Pedro Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In
You have the Dardennes delivering classic Dardenne. You have Kaurismaki delivering typical Kaurismaki. Today, we have Pedro giving us more colourful layers of Pedro. Starring the physically perfect Elena Anaya and an Antonio Banderas in Best Male lead performance form, Almodovar's The Skin I Live In is currently tied for first on our critics' poll and as we for further votes, this could be in the poll position by the end of the day, that is depending on what the other critics thought.
2011 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8 – Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia
The film about the end of the world paralleled with the emancipation from one's own depression as portrayed from the film's central character (Kirsten Dunst in a Best Actress for the festival worthy performance) is actually pretty tame by von Trier standards.
