Tag: 2018 Cannes Film Festival
Donbass | Review
Come and See: Loznitsa Crafts Overwhelming Nightmare of Modern War-torn Ukraine
Dropping us directly into the wartime propaganda machine of modern-day eastern Ukraine, which has...
Interview: Ulrich Köhler – In My Room
Coming seven years after 2011's Sleeping Sickness (Schlafkrankheit) and his longest time off between features, after his feverish study of settler psychology in West...
Yomeddine | Review
Natural Selection: Shawky Shackled by Straight Story
Tackling notions of identity in both a figurative and transfigurative sense, Yomeddine teeters ever so lightly into fable terrain...
Under the Silver Lake | Review
Under the Sun of Satan: Mitchell’s Messy Neo Noir Revels in Elitist Superficiality
Look no further than David Robert Mitchell’s third feature, the labored neo...
Video: Bi Gan’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
Known has the 3D film (where glasses are applied around the midway point), the best film playing in Cannes this year and reserved for...
Knife + Heart | Review
Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key Light: Gonzalez’s Queer Giallo a Dicey Mélange
Love as an overwhelming, all-consuming fire...
Ash Is Purest White | Review
Love is Like a Stove: Zhangke Tackles Genre in Time-Spanning Romance
Chinese auteur Jia Zhangke continues to experiment in tone and form with his latest...
Climax | Review
Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough: Noe Does Sensory Deception with Latest Dark Odyssey
Come again? Enfant terrible Gaspar Noe returns to cinema of...
Video: Gaspar Noé’s Climax | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
In terms of the narrative, it might be his most minimalist and arguably, this stands as Gaspar Noé's best film to date. In terms of...
Video: Cristina Gallego & Ciro Guerra’s Birds of Passage | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
They tend to always begin with a strong section opening film, and Cristina Gallego & Ciro Guerra's Birds of Passage (review) did not disappoint as...
Birds of Passage | Review
Wayuu of the Gun: Greed’s No Good in Guerra & Gallego’s Ganja Saga
Crime doesn’t pay, at least not for the indigenous Wayuu people in...
Everybody Knows (Todos Lo Saben) | Review
Iran So Far Away: Farhadi Stumbles with Spanish Soap Opera
Two-time Oscar-winning Iranian auteur Asghar Farhadi (A Separation; The Salesman) makes his Spanish-language debut with...
Cold War | Review
The Most Important Thing is to Love: Pawlikowski Delivers Beautifully Wrought, Chilly Amour Fou
Polish auteur Pawel Pawlikowski has had a curious trek to international...
Video: Romain Gavras’ The World is Yours (Le monde est à toi) | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
We haven't been bemused by gangsta comedy genre perhaps since Guy Ritchie's bumbling idiot films, and yet with this long anticipated sophomore film, Romain...
Shoplifters | Review
Ties That Bind: Koreeda Examines the Essence of Family from Unexpected Perspective
Anyone familiar with the cinema of Japanese auteur Hirokazu Koreeda already knows what...
Burning | Review
A Touch of Class: Chang-dong Returns with Masterful Class Clash
Puns concerns its slow build will be sincerely intended in forthcoming deliberations on South Korean...
Interview: Ali Abbasi – Border
Two years after Shelley, a horror film based on a Norse mythology and folktale, Ali Abbasi premiered the buzz heavy Border at the Cannes Film...
Video: Ali Abbassi’s Border | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
The surprise hit of the Un Certain Regard and kudos to the Benicio del Toro led jury on giving the section's top honors, Ali...
BlacKkKlansman | Review
Klan Destiny: Lee Returns with Strongest Joint in Years
Although not as finely wrought as his subversive (and underrated) 2015 Chi-raq, Spike Lee returns with...
Interview: Andréa Bescond & Eric Metayer – Little Tickles (Les chatouilles) | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
A creative collaboration that began in 2009 when Eric Métayer directed Andréa Bescond in her stage debut, the association proved fruitful as the pairing...
Interview: Irina Starshenbaum – Kirill Serebrennikov’s Leto | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
Two years after premiering an overtly political film in The Student (Un Certain Regard 2016), the gifted Russian filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov returns to the...
Interview: Meryem Benm’Barek – Sofia | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
By way of the young, unmarried Moroccan titular protagonist, Meryem Benm'Barek cuts her teeth with a piece that looks at the unwanted pregnancy under the...
Interview: Adilkhan Yerzhanov – The Gentle Indifference of the World
His sixth feature film in almost as many years, and second trip to the Croisette following in the footsteps of The Owners (2014), Kazakh...
Interview: Lukas Dhont – Girl | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
In the same year that the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winner A Fantastic Woman visited themes of identity and transition, Lukas Dhont's directorial...
Video: Luis Ortega’s El Angel | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
A shiny, glossy and slick Argentinian import with the Almodovar bros. as producers, the Un Certain Regard selected El Angel by helmer Luis Ortega...
Maria Monge’s Treat Me Like Fire (Joueurs) | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
Where Maria Monge's Treat Me Like Fire excels is in abiding by a frenetic fuelled street film that is more steeped in fantasy, than...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Lee Chang-dong’s Burning & Ceylan’s The Wild Pear Tree Top Our Chart with 3.8
Lee Chang-dong's Burning topped Le Film Francais and Screen Daily charts, but here at IONCINEMA.com those top honors (with 3.8 scores) were shared with...
The Conversation: In the Cannes – 2018: Burning, Donbass & Climax Top the List
In a surprisingly unpredictable and overall enjoyable 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival, the Cate Blanchett led jury awarded Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Shoplifters the...
The House That Jack Built | 2018 Cannes Film Festival Review
Lars and the Unreal Girls: The Danish Provocateur Pushes Buttons in Cruel, Grotesque Portrait of a Serial Killer
“O Muse, Recount to me the Causes”...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Chang-dong’s Burning Wins Personal Palme, Labaki’s Capernaum Favorite to win Palme
Nadine Labaki's Capernaum is the overwhelming favorite to win the Palme d'Or in just a little over one hour from now, but if our...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 12 – Yann Gonzalez’s Knife + Heart
Only his second film, and Yann Gonzalez has broke into the festival on both occasions. His 2013 debut You and the Night shored up...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 11 – Nadine Labaki’s Capharnaum
The Lebanese writer-director-actress started in the Director's Fortnight with Caramel in 2007, moved up to the UCR section with Lebanon 2011's with Where Do...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10 – Matteo Garrone’s Dogman
After 2002’s The Embalmer and 2004’s First Love, Matteo Garrone would receive proper international acclaim with Gomorrah - winning the Grand Prix for the...
The Gentle Indifference Of The World | 2018 Cannes Film Festival Review
World, Hold On: Yerzhanov Conjures Camus with Doomed Love Story
Kazakhstani director Adilkhan Yerzhanov continues his fascination with Albert Camus in his latest feature, The...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Lee Chang-dong’s Burning
The former high-school teacher and an acclaimed novelist makes his movies like he writes his books - Lee Chang-dong's films take their time to...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake
This Cannes edition becomes a 3-peat for director David Robert Mitchell. After unveiling (a rare SXSW Austin to Cannes trip) for The Myth of...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Stéphane Brizé’s At War (Un Autre Monde)
Now on eighth feature, in a year of few French filmmakers we are expecting another great performance from Stéphane Brizé's muse in Vincent Lindon...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7 – Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman
With only Do the Right Thing (1989) and Jungle Fever (1991) as competition entries, it's been a long time coming for number three to...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7 – Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s Asako I & II
With his fifth feature in 2015's Happy Hours making a notable presence at and winning Locarno, Ryūsuke Hamaguchi's Cannes debut in Asako I &...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7 – Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Shoplifters
Hirokazu Kore-eda‘s sixth trip to Cannes comes after Our Little Sister in 2015, and the one before that was Like Father, Like Son (which took home...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6 – Alice Rohrwacher’s Happy as Lazzaro (Lazzaro Felice)
Winner of the 2nd highest prize offered at the Cannes Film Festival with her sophomore film The Wonders in 2014, and she previously made...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6 – Jafar Panahi’s Three Faces
Winner for the Camera d'Or in 1995 (Directors' Fortnight) for The White Balloon, winner of the Un Certain Regard Jury for Crimson Gold in...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6 – Eva Husson’s Girls of the Sun (Les filles du soleil)
Eva Husson tackles some heady subject matter with her third feature, and first Cannes entry. After shoring up at TIFF in 2015 with Bang...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5 – Jia Zhangke’s Ash Is Purest White
An habitual of both Cannes and Venice, now in his third decade of filmmaking, Jia Zhangke first arrived in Cannes for 2002's Unknown Pleasures, then...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5 – Jean-Luc Godard’s The Image Book (Le livre d’images)
Walking up and down the Croisette we are reminded of his presence at the festival with the 1965's Pierrot le Fou and so after...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4 – Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War
Hailing from a docu background, Pawel Pawlikowski's sixth feature film in a little more than two decades sees the filmmaker reunite with Joanna Kulig...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3 – Christophe Honoré’s Sorry Angel (Plaire, aimer et courir vite)
Only his second time in the competition (he was there in 2007 with Les chansons d'amour), Christophe Honoré has moonlighted with the Cannes film...
Leto | 2018 Cannes Film Festival Review
Goodbye Lenin: Serebrennikov’s Vibrant Time Capsule More than a Feeling
Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov’s on-going house-arrest in Moscow lends his latest film, the period piece...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3 – Kirill Serebrennikov’s Summer (Leto)
Sadly, under house-arrest since post-production, Kirill Serebrennikov, the Russian stage, film director, and theatre designer would have loved the Croisette reaction to Summer (aka Leto). Following...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2 – Abu Bakr Shawky’s Yomeddine
Rare are the films from debut filmmakers to crack the Competition line-up and perhaps the first title to be funded by a Kickstarter campaign, Yomeddine...
