Tag: 2017 Cannes Film Festival
Video: Vladimir de Fontenay’s Mobile Homes – 2017 Cannes Film Fest Post Screening Q&A
Vladimir de Fontenay premiered his debut film Mobile Homes in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2017 Cannes Film Fest. Here is his post...
Video: Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here | 2017 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay / Actor
My personal Palme d'Or of the fest was the last in competition and we've yet to see where it'll land next. With Telluride still...
Video: Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Loveless | 2017 Cannes Film Festival – Jury Prize
Sight unseen, it was a front runner for the Palme d'Or and leading up to the final day was being name dropped as a...
Video: François Ozon’s Amant Double – 2017 Cannes Film Festival
Here is the press conference arrival for François Ozon's Amant Double starring Marine Vacth, Jérémie Renier, Jacqueline Bisset, Myriam Boyer and Dominique Reymond. The...
Video: Léonor Serraille’s Jeune femme (Montparnasse-Bienvenüe) – Camera d’Or Winner
The most fiercest battle on the Croisette is for the Camera d’Or - the best debut film that extends to all sections of the...
Video: Diane Kruger for In the Fade | 2017 Cannes Film Festival – Best Actress
The consensus thinking was a great performance in a mediocre Fatih Akin film, Diane Kruger's first role in her native German language in In...
Video: Palme d’Or Jury – 2017 Cannes Film Festival
The final day of the Cannes Film Festival is one of trepidation and tremendous release - and I'd argue, that this applies to the...
Video: Roman Polanski’s Based on a True Story – 2017 Cannes Film Festival
Received with a rather chilly reception, the final film and press conference of the fest was for the non comp item closer by Roman...
Video: Belle de Jour (1967) | Jean-Claude Carrière – 2017 Cannes Film Festival
It's a section I rarely allow myself to venture towards during the madness of what is the Cannes film fest, but in most cases...
Video: Sean Baker’s The Florida Project – 2017 Cannes Film Festival
His first trip on the Croisette, Sean Baker's The Florida Project was presented in the Directors' Fortnight section as a world premiere screening. In...
Video: Chloé Zhao’s The Rider – 2017 Cannes Film Festival
Here is pre-screening presentations for The Rider - the Directors' Fortnight selected film. Filmmaker Chloé Zhao and cast were present for her sophomore film world...
Video: Jonas Carpignano’s A Ciambra – 2017 Cannes Film Fest Post Screening Q&A
After premiering his debut film at the Venice Film Festival, Édouard Waintrop's Directors' Fortnight would beat out Critic's Week for the right to show...
Video: 2017 Cannes Press Conference Intro: Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Loveless
Before we leap ahead into the fall, we're looking back at some of our favorite moments on the Croisette. One of the most anticipated...
Good Time | Review
White is Right: Pattinson Shines in the Grime of the Safdie Bros. Urban Squalor
American indie directors Joshua and Ben Safdie craft their most polished...
Okja | Review
That’ll Do, Pig: Joon-ho’s Latest Creature Feature Gets Stuck on Itself
Following 2014’s post-apocalyptic microcosm Snowpiercer, South Korean auteur Bong Joon-ho returns to familiar territory...
The Beguiled | Review
The Last Seduction: Coppola Eschews Subtext with High Profile Remake
Claiming to be a closer adaptation to Thomas Cullinan’s 1966 novel than the famed 1971...
2017 Cannes Film Festival: How the “Toni Erdmann” Snub Help Land “The Square” the Palme d’Or
When surveilling the postscript and how the Pedro led jury handed out the awards, the consensus is: job well done. However, while we were...
The Conversation: What Cannes Do – Top 10 Favorites of the 2017 Edition
In one of the most cavalier Cannes juries of recent years, the Pedro Almodovar led voting body closed out the 2017 edition of the...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Campillo’s BPM (Beats Per Minute) Favored to Win Palme d’Or, but Ramsay is the Preferred Palme
We haven't seen these numbers since Blue is the Warmest Color dominated to eventually win the Palme, but Robin Campillo's BPM was selected by...
Based on a True Story | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review
Hider in Her Head: Polanski Mines a Dull Playing Field with Psychological Thriller
The promising conceptualization of Roman Polanski directing a femme centric psychological thriller...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Wrap-Up: Campillo, Ramsay & Zvyagintsev Place 1-2-3
2017 would see nineteen competition films, and from Day 3 and never giving up the lead, Robin Campillo's BPM held onto its lead to...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 11: Lynne Ramsay Hammers out Career Best & Palme Contender in You Were Never Really Here
Kitchen sink realism in the distant past, You Were Never Really Here counts as feature number four, and yet this is her seventh visit...
You Were Never Really Here | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review
Where Have You Been?: Ramsay Returns with Pronouncedly Fractured, Melancholic Adaptation
Returning from a six year hiatus after 2011’s We Need To Talk About Kevin,...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 10: Fatih Akin Wants Revenge with In the Fade
Perhaps a surprise inclusion after The Cut was unceremoniously not selected for Cannes on his last time out, not including his pair of Special...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 10: Francois Ozon Gets into Eye of the Storm with Amant Double
A prolific filmmaker with no fixed address, if one can't find François Ozon in Cannes you'll be sure to see him in Berlin, Venice...
L’Amant double | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review
Double the Pleasure, Double the Fun: Ozon Hearkens Back to Enfant Terrible Days with Erotic Skin Flick
The forgotten art of the campy erotic thriller...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 9: Sergei Loznitsa Seeks Justice with A Gentle Creature
With the competition coming to a close, one stand out filmmaker who has been supported by the fest but has yet to land any...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 9: Critics Getting High with Benny & Josh Safdie’s Good Time
You always remember your first time. I was there when the two pees in a pod, Ronald Bronstein and Eleonore Hendricks were included in...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 9: Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled Mushrooms into Critic Fave
A longstanding "member" of Cannes well before she showcased her skillset with The Virgin Suicides in the Quinzaine (she was probably at the Apocalypse...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 9: Hong Sang-soo’s The Day After Contains Color
I've been running behind with our grid, now in the clear and past the half way mark here is the latest updates from the...
Rodin | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review
The Wails of Auguste: Doillon Presents Shapeless Biopic on the Famed French Sculptor
Unfortunately, French auteur Jacques Doillon’s high profile remounting of French sculptor Auguste...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 6: Things Fall Apart in Michael Haneke’s Happy End
Whether it's construction sites, karaoke numbers, hamsters or the elderly, Michael Haneke's quasi sequel to Amour has failed to win over "all" critics. Happy...
The Day After | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review
Three Women: Sang-soo Goes for Slight(ly) Sober in Black and White Mix-up
South Korea’s Hong Sangsoo surpasses his own prolific, breakneck speed with a whopping...
Golden Years | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review
My Baby Shot Me Down: Techine’s Tedious Period Piece a Drained Chronicle
While perennial French auteur Andre Techine delivered one of his most vibrant narratives...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 6: Yorgos Lanthimos Does the Mash Potato with The Killing of a Sacred Deer
He'll be referenced as the one who began the Greek New Wave in cinema and there was a time when we didn't quite know...
The Killing of a Sacred Deer | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review
The Dear Hunter: Lanthimos Flatlines with Terse Revenge Fantasy
There’s no arguing the unique capabilities of Greek Weird Wave alum Yorgos Lanthimos, who broke out...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 6: Baumbach Buries the Hatchet with The Meyerowitz Stories
Almost a dozen features in and The Meyerowitz Stories is Noah Baumbach's first time on the Croisette (if you exclude his screenwriting cred on...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 5: Michel Hazanavicius Jump Cuts to Redoubtable
The first week ends with the return of Michel Hazanavicius and his latest project, Redoubtable. He gave us the OSS films, Cannes invited The...
Happy End | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review
The Sunshine of Their Love: Haneke Dishes Up Black Comedy with a Dollop of Self-Loathing
Happy families are all the same in a Michael Haneke...
A Ciambra | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review
Life of Pio: Carpignano Shows Them Who is Boss
With hand gestures that you’d typically associate to argumentative Italians and a Calabrian backdrop that one would...
BPM (Beats Per Minute) | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review
The Beat Goes On: Campillo Mounts Generous Homage to ACT UP Paris
While there are several noted cinematic renderings of the early days of the...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 4: Ruben Ostlund Tumbles Up the Stairs with The Square
He received an earlier screening late last night and has been consider the buzz title (mostly for better) and mentioned in the same breathe...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 4: Robin Campillo Finds a Cure with BPM (Beats Per Minute)
With not one, but two items in Cannes this year (the other being L'Atelier from Laurent Cantet in the Un Certain Regard section), Robin...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 3: Kornel Mundruczo’s Jupiter’s Moon Has Trouble Getting Off Ground
In comp for his third time and at the fest for a sixth time, Kornel Mundruczo was expected to move back into the fight...
The Square | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review
Attenberg Follies: Ostlund’s Meta Commentary Skewers Social Contrivances
Adding to a body of work which comically and obsessively examines the underbelly of human desires and...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 3: Bong Joon-Ho Has No Pet Peeve’s with Okja
He first hit the Croisette with another "creature movie" in 2006 with the Directors' Fortnight included The Host, and after showings of Tokyo! (2008)...
Let the Sunshine In | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review
A Tall Dark Stranger: Denis and Binoche are Remarkable Bedfellows in Light Comedy
Claire Denis comes as close as she ever will to romantic comedy...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 2: Andrey Zvyagintsev Makes No Mistakes with Loveless
Technically the first film to show as it was offered early yesterday night, this is the Russian filmmaker's fourth trip to the Croisette out of his...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 2: Fossil fuels Todd Haynes’ Wonderstruck
The first 8:30 a.m. press screening was a little bit of a nightmare for journos with security measures but into place that were extra...
Live from Cannes 2017: Introducing Our Cannes Critics’ Panel
With no over three hour Romanian or Turkish film offerings, the 70th edition of Cannes with its nineteen Comp items is a rather lean...
