Tag: 2016 Cannes Film Festival
From the Land of the Moon | Review
The Spa of Loneliness: Garcia’s Clunky Wartime Romance
Though she’s perhaps still best known as a prolific actress, Nicole Garcia has quietly built an impressive...
Staying Vertical | Review
The Bipedal Advantage: Guiraudie Returns to Vaguely Pernicious Themes
After his 2013 breakout success with Stranger By the Lake, a nod to France’s Hitchcockian forefather...
Toni Erdmann | Review
Tony Toni Tone: Maren Ade Returns with Profound Portrait of Estranged Family Members
Comedic films coming out of Germany, at least those nabbing international acclaim...
Elle | Review
Losing Her Religion: Verhoeven Directs a Fearless Huppert in Provocative Psychological Thriller
Arriving with a knotty snarl of perverse commentary, Dutch auteur Paul Verhoeven proves...
Loving | Review
United States of Love: Nichols Falters with Hokey Prestige Picture
In 1967, the United States Supreme Court made a landmark civil rights decision with Loving...
Aquarius | Review
Sign of the Times: Filho’s Formidable Examination of Life as a House
For his sophomore effort, Brazilian director crafts an intriguing character study around a...
The Neon Demon | Review
Death Walks on High Heels: Refn Delves Daftly into the Los Angeles Fashion Demimonde
To reference John Waters’ definition of beauty, “a face should jolt,...
The Conversation: Cannes 2016 is the Year of the Cannibal
It was a markedly gruesome year on the Croisette in 2016 (including the perplexing awards recipients), with a notable slew of titles playing throughout...
Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann, Aquarius, Elle & Paterson Top our 2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel
Yesterday's George Miller led jury pronounced Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake as the best from the 2016 competition of twenty-one films, and they gave...
2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 12: Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann Leads Palme d’Or Predictions & Personal Palmes
The Cannes Film Festival is getting ready to bestow several awards, including the highest honor. Not surprisingly, the majority of the jury think that Maren Ade's...
2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 11: Paul Verhoeven Brings Loaded “Elle” to the Table
Elle not only sees Paul Verhoeven's long awaited return to the Croisette (his only ever Cannes showing being 1992's Basic Instinct) but it also counts as...
2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 10: Refn Takes Fashionable Approach to “The Neon Demon”
Prior to hitting the Cannes comp with his Best Director prize winning Drive (2011) and the much disliked Only God Forgives (2013), this Danish-American...
2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 10: Sean Penn’s Proposes Cinematic War Zone for “The Last Face”
A well liked actor and personality on the Croisette, he had his first outing as a filmmaker with The Indiana Runner land in the...
The Unknown Girl | 2016 Cannes Film Festival Review
The Guilt Trip: The Dardennes’ Add a Touch of Genre to Collective Guilt
For better or worse, we already know what kind of quiet poignancy...
2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 9: Dolan Comes Out with “It’s the Only the End of the World”
With the exception of what I consider his best film to date, the Venice preemed Tom at the Farm, Xavier Dolan's home away from home...
2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 9: Cristian Mungiu Teaches Masterclass with “Graduation”
Winner of the Palme d'Or in a heavily stacked 2007 field that included The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, No Country for Old Men...
It’s Only the End of the World | 2016 Cannes Film Festival Review
Don’t They Know?: Dolan Delivers a Dud with Familial Drama
Though no stranger to working with French stars, Quebecois filmmaker Xavier Dolan makes his first...
2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 8: Brillante Mendoza’s Slumdog Manila in “Ma’ Rosa”
Hovering just over the dozen feature film mark, Ma' Rosa is now the fourth Cannes Film Fest entry for Filipino director Brillante Mendoza. Serbis was his...
2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 8: Dardennes Get Clean Bill of Health for “The Unknown Girl”
Padding their already impressive filmography as filmmakers, the Dardennes are becoming a force in auteur-driven films as producers. Landing a little everywhere in Cannes...
2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 7: Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Asks What’s Your Sign with “Aquarius”
There's a new reason to be excited about Brazilian cinema and his name is Kleber Mendonça Filho. His undeniably seminal first feature film Neighboring...
2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 7: Olivier Assayas Scares & Boos with “Personal Shopper”
From one star rating to Irma Vep and Summer Hours five star perfection and everything in between, Olivier Assayas' latest will not have gone...
2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 7: Pedro Almodovar Soaks in Silence with “Julieta”
Hovering around the twenty film mark, you might have thought that this Madrilenian's entire filmography was displayed on the Croisette, when in fact, excluding...
2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 6: Jarmusch “Paterson” is Worth the Bus Fare
While many of us film folk who attend Cannes are reminded of Jim Jarmusch's presence on the Croisette every time we sit in on...
2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 6: Jeff Nichols Has No Fear with “Loving”
We've been in full admiration of this American indie filmmaker ever since he broke out with Shotgun Stories (Berlin Film Fest) in 2007, and confirmed his...
The Conversation: 2016 Cannes Film Fest Halfway Point Pulse
Eric Lavallee: Hello Nicholas. Yesterday we completed week one and we're close to the midway point. We've been anticipating Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann for...
2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 5: Arnold’s “American Honey” Features Two-Lane Bluetop
With the exception of Wuthering Heights, Andrea Arnold has stamped her presence all over the Croisette and has been heavily rewarded for her works:...
2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 5: Nicole Garcia Passionate About “From the Land of the Moon”
With her eighth feature film under her belt, veteran actress (Resnais' My American Uncle) turned filmmaker Nicole Garcia returns to the Cannes competition a...
American Honey | 2016 Cannes Film Festival Review
Hard Candy: Arnold’s Benevolent Portrait of Bruised American Youth
Arthur Miller’s signature work featuring shambling door-to-door salesman Willy Loman certainly comes to mind more than...
2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 4: The Joke’s on You with Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann
While the Un Certain Regard section certainly has populated their section with some German items, there have remarkably been zilch film entries in the...
2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 4: Park Chan-wook Gets into Seduction Mode with “The Handmaiden”
Following 2004's Old Boy (Grand Prix) and 2009's Thirst (Jury Prize), this is Park Chan-wook's third trip to the Cannes comp and technically tenth...
2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 3: Ken Loach Cares About the Welfare of “I, Daniel Blake”
He has promoted, and as of late, defended the inclusion of this filmmaker, and with I, Daniel Blake - Thierry Frémaux proves that he has...
2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 3: Bruno Dumont’s “Slack Bay” Sinks & Swims
Day three and four films and so far it's been a sturdy festival line-up. Excluding his mini-series P’tit Quinquin which shored up at the...
Sieranevada | 2016 Cannes Film Festival Review
Death in the Family: Puiu’s Grueling, Rewarding Portrait of Familial Strife
People are never who they seem to be, at least until you get to...
2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 2: Puiu Thinks of You, The Living with “Sieranevada”
Fans of Romanian cinema are well compensated this year with not one, but two comp offerings from the Eastern european nation: Cristian Mungiu is...
2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 2: Guiraudie is Hungry Like the Wolf with “Staying Vertical”
The last time Alain Guiraudie was on the Croisette, it was pretty much unanimous that his Un Certain Regard selected and Best Director winning...
Live from Cannes 2016: Introducing Our Cannes Critics’ Panel
And we're off to the races. The 69th edition of the Cannes film festival begins today and so does our Croisette gallop poll otherwise know as our annual...
Farhadi’s “The Salesman” Completes Cannes Main Comp; Mackenzie’s “Hell or High Water” in UCR
And then they were twenty-one. Shown to Cannes' head honcho Thierry Fremaux a tad too late for the initial announcement, Asghar Farhadi's The Saleman...
Cannes 2016: Kim Nguyen’s Two Lovers and a Bear
Based on a series of stories that Kanuk founder Louis Grenier (Québecois winter parka company) collected on his many trips up north, producer Roger...
Directors’ Fortnight: Larraín, Nguyen, Lafosse, Poitras, Kashyap, Schrader & Jodo Among 2016 Line-up
Three films from Italy, one posthumous offering from Solveig Anspach and plenty of robust, yet familiar "Quinzaine" faces figure among the eighteen selections announced...
55th Critics’ Week: France Dominates Selections with Justine Triet’s “In Bed With Victoria” as Opener
As we wait for the Directors' Fortnight to confirm the future Croisette status of Alejandro Jodorowsky if Endless Poetry, Kim Nguyen's Two Lovers and...
The Conversation: One Never Cannes Tell – The 2016 Edition
Tis the season for fevered wish lists and constantly fluctuating prognostications concerning the soon to be revealed 2016 program at the Cannes Film Festival....
