Tag: 2013 Cannes Film Festival
The Strange Little Cat | Review
In a Word: Pulchritude
Buried in Cannes' most unassuming and roundly ignored sidebar, ACID (an acronym for what translates to "The Association for the Distribution...
Nothing Bad Can Happen | Review
Book of Job 2: Gebbe’s Divisive Debut High Brow Torture Porn
The only German entry in 2013’s Cannes film festival also happened to be one...
Venus in Fur | Review
Mighty Aphrodite: Polanski Returns With Spirited Adaptation
The once quite reticent Roman Polanski quickly returns with yet another adaptation of a popular Broadway play, Venus...
Heli | Review
Fast, Cheap and Out of Control: Escalante’s Mexico Still Suffering
Amat Escalante doesn’t fall far from his own tree with Heli, graphic violence once again...
Young and Beautiful | Review
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...
The German Doctor | Review
A Nazi At My Table: Puenzo’s Latest an Eerie Reimagining
Argentinian director Lucia Puenzo once again adapts one of her own novels for her latest...
Only Lovers Left Alive | Review
Eternity and a Day: Jim Jarmusch's Vampire Flick Is Typically Jarmuschian
After his droll yet audience-friendly quirkfest Broken Flowers took home the Grand Prix at...
Jodorowsky’s Dune | Review
Resurrecting Sci-fi Legend: Pavich Taps Alejandro
Frank Herbert's epic novel Dune has been a sci-fi benchmark since it's original release back in 1965, and since,...
Stranger By the Lake | Review
Wet Hot French Summer: Guiraudie’s Bold, Scintillating New Film
Idiosyncratic filmmaker Alain Guiraudie is set to take the art house by storm with his bold,...
Blue is the Warmest Color | Review
Blue is the Color of My True Love’s Hair: Kechiche Takes Us Deep Sea, Baby
For his latest film, Abdellatif Kechiche returns to themes of...
Grand Central | Cannes Review
Soon You Will Know: Zlotowski’s Sophomore Effort a Bleak and Appealing Entanglement
Reuniting with Lea Seydoux, the star of her 2010 film, Belle Epine, filmmaker...
Recap: Our Cannes Critics’ Panel think Latest Kechiche, Coens and Farhadi Were a Cut Above
Around the midway point of the fest, all indications told us that Asghar Farhadi's The Past and the Coen bros. Inside Llewyn Davis would...
2013 Cannes Award Winners in Pictures: Triple Love for Kechiche, Exarchopoulos and Seydoux
It was to be expected the moment that the Best Actress prize was given to Bérénice Béjo (The Past), that the chances for Palme...
Our Panel Predicts Palme d’Or Win for Kechiche’s Blue is the Warmest Colour
We had an server hiccup exactly at the wrong time here in Cannes, but it's worth saying that (check out our fancy graph below)...
2013 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Kechiche’s “Blue is the Warmest Colour” in a Class Apart
According to the sixteen critics on our panel, Abdellatif Kechiche's Blue is the Warmest Colour (which is already being considered to be the filmmaker's...
2013 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 11: Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive
Those who'll have stayed until the end of the fest (most in the industry skip town a good 48 hours prior to Sunday) will...
2013 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 10: Gray’s The Immigrant
Handsome looking via the the talented Darius Khondji, high-end production value that some are mentioning as The Godfather Part II like, starring muse Joaquin...
2013 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 9: Kechiche’s Blue is the Warmest Color
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...
Behind the Candelabra | Review
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...
Shield of Straw | Cannes Review
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...
2013 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 7: Sorrentino’s La Grande Bellezza
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...
2013 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 5: Coen Bros.’ Inside Llewyn Davis
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...
2013 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 4: Arnaud Desplechin’s Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian)
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...
Like Father, Like Son | Review
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...
The Past | Cannes Review
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...
2013 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 2: Amat Escalante’s Heli
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...