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Reviews
Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
May 21, 2023The End of the Affair: Naveriani Finds Love in a Hopeless Place Georgian filmmaker Elene Naveriani...
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Reviews
The (Ex)perience of Love | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
May 20, 2023Let’s Talk About Ex Baby: Balboni/Sirot Need A Lot More Lube for Rom Com Containing enough...
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Film Festivals
Kaouther Ben Hania’s Four Daughters – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3
May 20, 2023Another first-timer in the comp, Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania came to Cannes in 2017 for...
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Film Festivals
Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3
May 20, 2023The short films, music videos, commercials and sometimes feature films filmmaker when he finds the time,...
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Film Festivals
Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s About Dry Grasses – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3
May 20, 2023A lengthy shoot, a lengthy post-production process and a lengthy runtime mean it’s business as usual...
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Reviews
Il pleut dans la maison (It’s Raining in the House) | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
May 19, 2023Baby the Rain Must Fall: Life Imitates Art in Serman-Daï’s Narrative Debut There’s a literalness in It’s...
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Film Festivals
Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire’s Black Flies – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2
May 19, 2023One of the last two film items added to the competition this year, Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire‘s Black...
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Reviews
Les meutes (Hounds) | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
May 19, 2023Wash Away Your Sins: The Apple Falls a Bit Further Out From the Tree in Lazraq’s...
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Film Festivals
Wang Bing’s Youth (Spring) – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2
May 19, 2023One of the two documentaries selected for the competition (this is more of a traditional docu...
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Reviews
Simple comme Sylvain | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
May 18, 2023Heart in the Right Place: Chokri Lets the Body & the Camera Do the Talking in...
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Film Festivals
Catherine Corsini’s Le retour (Homecoming) – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 1
May 18, 2023The second film in the comp and first French film item and one of seven feature...
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Reviews
Le retour | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
May 17, 2023Put a Label on It: Corsini’s Corsica is a Lieu for Inter & Intra-personal Growth Napoleon...
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Film Festivals
Kore-eda Hirokazu’s Monster – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 1
May 17, 2023We begin the competition with one of many Palme d’Or winners who are looking to possibly...
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Reviews
Ama Gloria | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
May 17, 2023Cléo Entre 5 et 7: Everyone Shares the Same Song in Amachoukeli’s Sophisticated Sophomore Feature Letting...
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Reviews
Jeanne du Barry | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
May 17, 2023Vanity Affair: Maïwenn Tarries with Madame du Barry For her sixth feature film, Maïwenn tackles her...
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You Betcha!
You BETcha!: Kaouther Ben Hania, Ramata-Toulaye Sy, Alice Rohrwacher, Wang Bing & Glazer Top Contenders for the Palme d’Or
May 17, 2023Yesterday the Cannes Film Festival opened with Maïwenn’s Jeanne du Barry (marking the return of Johnny...
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Film Festivals
Live from Cannes: 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel – Meet the Jury!
May 16, 2023Last year Ruben Östlund took home the big daddy of film prizes winning his second Palme...
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Interviews
Interview: Francisca Alegria, Mia Maestro & Leonor Varela – The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future
May 16, 2023Francisca Alegria’s The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future is unlike any other experience...
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Reviews
Master Gardener | Review
May 16, 2023That Shall He Also Reap: Schrader Sows the Seeds of Fate with Metaphorical Blossoms The seeds...
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Reviews
The Night of the 12th | Review
May 15, 2023Hero Complex: Moll Refreshes Detective Procedural with Cat’s Paw Narrative With his early naughts (With a...
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Foreign Film News
2023 Cannes Clip: Losing Half the Pie and a Lot More in Amjad Al Rasheed’s Inshallah a Boy
May 15, 2023Part of a large wave of Arab cinema covering all sections of this year’s Cannes Film...
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Foreign Film News
Exclusive: Clips for Filipa Reis & João Miller Guerra’s Légua – 2023 Directors’ Fortnight Selection
May 15, 2023Last week we featured the poster one-sheet for Filipa Reis and João Miller Guerra’s Légua –...
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Reviews
Butterfly Vision | Review
May 12, 2023Coming Home: Nakonechnyi Explores Collateral Damage in Prescient Drama While the near decade long conflict between...
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Reviews
BlackBerry | Review
May 11, 2023Hold the Phone: Johnson Delivers the Ballad of the BlackBerry Exposing the accidental alchemy which generated...
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Reviews
Monica | Review
May 9, 2023Portrait of a Lady: Pallaoro Quietly Searches for Grace in Profound Reconciliation There’s a relentless, nearly...
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Foreign Film News
2023 Cannes Clip: Efira Tries to Keep Family Together in Delphine Deloget’s All To Play For (Rien à perdre)
May 8, 2023Shoring up in Cannes with two features, Virginie Efira is cast as a mother going the...
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Foreign Film News
2023 Cannes Clip: Rémy & Sandra Are Super Open in Ann Sirot & Raphaël Balboni’s The (Ex)perience of Love
May 8, 2023Sure to add some spice and throw some intellectual stimuli to what is the norm for...
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Foreign Film News
Exclusive: Poster for Filipa Reis & João Miller Guerra’s Légua – 2023 Directors’ Fortnight Selection
May 8, 2023Set to have its world premiere screening (05.23) in the Directors’ Fortnight section, we have your...
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Foreign Film News
All Guts No Glory: Céleste Brunnquel, Renier, Edoardo Pesce & Matt Dilon Join Jessica Palud’s “Maria”
May 8, 2023Anamaria Vartolomei (who broke out big in Audrey Diwan’s Happening) will be surrounded by the likes...
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Film Festivals
2023 TorinoFilmLab: Chie Hayakawa, Vytautas Katkus & Manuela Martelli Land Support
May 5, 2023One of the most important labs out there for first and second-time filmmakers, the TorinoFilmLab (TFL)...
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Film Festivals
2023 Cannes: Palme Winner Julia Ducournau, Paul Dano & Rungano Nyoni Among Jury!
May 4, 2023Ruben Östlund has a bunch of cinephile buddies to help him hand out the big daddy...
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Interviews
Interview: Manuela Martelli – Chile ’76
May 1, 2023We had some formidable directorial debuts stretching across the Croisette this past May. At the Critics’...
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Reviews
R.M.N. | Review
April 28, 2023On a Racist Day You Can See Forever: Mungiu Confronts Nationalism in Fractious Drama On the...
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Reviews
Winter Boy (Le Lycéen) | Review
April 28, 2023Hazy Shade of Winter: Honore Deals with a Death in the Family in Sincere Coming-of-Age Christophe...
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Foreign Film News
What’s in Store for 2024?: Noémie Merlant, Leyla Bouzid & Marjane Satrapi Receive CNC Coin
April 28, 2023A dozen 12 projects have been selected as part of the second 2023 session of the...
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Foreign Film News
Let’s Talk About “Sex” – Mubi Land Molly Manning Walker’s Directorial Un Certain Regard Selected Debut
April 27, 2023Always an encouraging sign when a film gets pre-bought close to a month before its world...
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Foreign Film News
Rebel Rodríguez: Paula Ortiz Traces Footsteps of Spanish Pioneer “Hildegart”
April 27, 2023The other day Variety provided an update on Amazon’s Prime Video film items in the works...
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Foreign Film News
The Sonne and then the “Moon”: Kurdwin Ayub Begins Production on Sophomore Narrative Feature
April 26, 2023Iraq-born Austrian filmmaker Kurdwin Ayub has just begun work on Mond (the translation of the word...
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Interviews
Interview: Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson – Beautiful Beings
April 25, 2023In anticipation of the upcoming 95th Academy Awards, I conversed with Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson, whose sophomore...
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Film Festivals
2023 Cannes: Sauvaire’s Black Flies & Corsini’s Le retour in Palme Race; Escalante & Alonso in Cannes Premiere
April 24, 2023Thierry Frémaux has circled Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire‘s Black Flies (which we thought would have been an OOC...
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Foreign Film News
Western Ex-pat: Audrey Diwan Reteams with Anamaria Vartolomei for “Emmanuelle”
April 24, 2023Currently in pre-production phase and deep in the casting process, Audrey Diwan (who will be in...
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Reviews
Les Enfants des Autres (Other People’s Children) | Review
April 21, 2023Sex and Longing: Efira Shines in Zlotowski’s Portrait of Missed Opportunities In a celebrated tradition of...
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Reviews
Somewhere in Queens | Review
April 21, 2023Sticks and Stones: Romano’s Lovable Directorial Debut Ray Romano’s first foray into acting-directing, Somewhere in Queens,...
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American Indie Films News
Blowing Horn: Paul Rudd to Find Divine Truth in Alex Scharfman’s “Death of a Unicorne”
April 20, 2023After a decade of producing (beginning with The Heart Machine and more recently Resurrection), American indie...
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Foreign Film News
Environ-Metal: Finnegan Oldfield & Daphné Patakia Swim to Lucie Prost’s Debut “Les truites”
April 20, 2023After receiving some CNC Coin back in March of ’22, French filmmaker Lucie Prost is to...