Tag: 2022 Cannes Film Festival
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10 – Albert Serra’s Pacifiction
Another filmmaker who was invited to his first Palme d'Or race, Albert Serra has been to the Croisette first in the Directors' Fortnight with...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Claire Denis’ Stars At Noon
Could Claire Denis pull a rare two film in two back to back film festival (Berlinale-Cannes) double win a la Ryusuke Hamaguchi? As we...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Saeed Roustayi’s Leila’s Brothers
One of the two Iranian entries at this year's Cannes competition, this is Saeed Roustayi's first time. Starring Taraneh Alidoosti, Saeed Poursamimi, Navid Mohammadzadeh,...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8 – Mario Martone’s Nostalgia
Much more of a Venice Film Festival invited guest, Nostalgia becomes Mario Martone's second trip to the Palme comp after 1995's L'Amore Molesto. He...
Leila’s Brothers | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
How to Beat the High Cost of Living: Roustayi Ponders Poverty in Familial Melodrama
“Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8 – Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne’s Tori et Lokita
For their ninth feature film in competition, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne once again turn to non-actors to give their text fresh new faces for...
La Jauría | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
Beasts in the Jungle: Pulido Suffers the Children in Sinister Debut
At the bizarre intersection of a walkabout and a penal colony is La Jauría...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7- David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future
This year's Canadian entry has a touch of Greece in it as David Cronenberg shot his latest film with a whiff of the Aegean...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7- Park Chan-Wook’s Decision to Leave
Now that moved the move into television (The Little Drummer Girl and the forthcoming The Sympathizer), Park Chan-wook finally returns to Cannes with Decision...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6 – Valeria Bruni‑Tedeschi’s Les Amandiers (aka Forever Young)
A decade after presenting A Castle in Italy (2013), Valeria Bruni‑Tedeschi returns to the competition with Les Amandiers (Forever Young). Starring Louis Garrel as Patrice...
Les Amandiers (Forever Young) | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
Mixed Nuts: Tedeschi Returns to Acting School in Charming, Vigorous Homage
For her fifth narrative feature, the indefatigable Valeria Bruni Tedeschi conjures a nostalgic reunion...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6- Ali Abbasi’s Holy Spider
The Un Certain Regard section winner with his second film for the 2018 programme with Border, Ali Abbasi makes his first journey into the...
Don Juan | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
A Woman is a Woman: Bozon Invokes the Eternal Seducer in Eccentric Musical
Much like Casanova, the name Don Juan has become a euphemism for...
Nos Cérémonies (Summer Scars) | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
Summertime Sadness: Reith Explores Brotherly Love with Ominous Magical Realism
It’s a formulation as old as storytelling, two men whose love for one another is...
Continental Drift (South) | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
Conventional Liaisons: Baier Leans into the Comedy of Crisis Through Familial Rift
Swiss director Lionel Baier completes the third section of an intended four part...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5 – Cristian Mungiu’s R.M.N.
Winner of the Palme d’Or in 2007 field for 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days and double prize take in 2012 for Beyond...
Marcel! | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
Dog Gone: Trinca Debuts Pleasant Semi-autobiographical Dramedy
“I’m devoted to divination,” sniffs a haughty Alba Rohrwacher as a self-centered mother in Jasmine Trinca’s directorial debut,...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5 – Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness
With perhaps far more time in post than the other films vying for the Palme this year, Ruben Östlund goes off the deep end...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4 – Arnaud Desplechin’s Brother and Sister
After seeing his last film (Deception) premiere in the Cannes Premiere section last year, Arnaud Desplechin returns to the competition section once again with...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4 – Tarik Saleh’s Boy from Heaven
Now at the five feature film mark, Swedish filmmaker Tarik Saleh reunites with his The Nile Hilton Incident (2017) star a scruffy Fares Fares...
Frère et soeur (Brother and Sister) | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
I’m Not One of Your Fans: Desplechin Delivers Camp Classic with Failed Melodrama
No one depicted in Frère et soeur (Brother and Sister), the latest...
Goutte d’Or (Son of Ramses) | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
Sun of a Gun: Cogitore Returns with Cryptic Drama on Violence, Exploitation
France’s Clément Cogitore is clearly a fan of the mysterious and inexplicable sinews...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3 – Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO
Making his eighth trip to Cannes (his most latest visit was in the Directors' Fortnight with 2018's Four Nights With Anna), and in the...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3 – James Gray’s Armageddon Time
James Gray makes a fifth trip to the Palme d'Or competition with Armageddon Time - his eighth feature film. Following The Yards (2000), We...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2 – Charlotte Vandermeersch & Felix Van Groeningen’s The Eight Mountains
Among the last batch of entries for the festival, the filmmaker behind 2004 debut Steve+Sky, 2009’s The Misfortunates (Directors’ Fortnight selection) and 2012’s The...
The Woodcutter Story | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
One Flew Over the Cuckold’s Nest: Myllylahti Contends Hope Floats in Black Comedy
By their nature, fables provide fanciful cinematic avenues of metaphorical expression as...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2 – Kirill Serebrennikov’s Tchaikovsky’s Wife
The 2022 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or competition begins with Kirill Serebrennikov's Tchaikovsky's Wife -- his fourth consecutive feature to premiere at the Cannes...
Tchaikovsky’s Wife | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
Lady Beard: Serebrennikov Delivers Extravagant Recuperation of a Woman Undone
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, one of the 19th century’s most prolific composers, whose music remains an...
Esterno notte (Exterior Night) | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
Dead in Red: Bellocchio Returns to Infamous Kidnapping for Television Debut
In his continuation in recuperating fantastical elements of Italian political and criminal history, Marco...
2022 Cannes Film Festival: Eric Lavallée’s Top 5 Most Anticipated!
Yesterday we took a look at Nicholas Bell's top 5 most anticipated films for Cannes 2022. Now it's my turn.
Competition:
R.M.N.
He usually takes about a...
2022 Cannes Film Festival: Nicholas Bell’s Top 5 Most Anticipated!
It's the most important film event in the world and physically it stretches from the Grand Lumiere theatre (which houses plenty of films including...
Live from Cannes: 2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel – Meet the Jury!
Last year's behemoth two dozen title competition saw Julia Ducournau’s Titane take the top honors landing the Palme d'Or but our jury of twenty...
2022 Cannes: The Mother and the Whore Opens Cannes Classics
And the last additions to the Cannes programme is the ever-so-popular Cannes Classics - which promises plenty of restored (mostly 4k) national film treasures...
2022 Cannes: Radu Jude Among Short Film Filmmakers in the Directors’ Fortnight
It's a compact ten offerings that make up the short films selection over at the Directors' Fortnight. The eyebrow-raiser goes to Radu Jude -...
2022 Cannes: Vincent Lindon Leads Jury + Jasmine Trinca’s Marcel! Added to Special Screenings
How does one avoid the major gaffe like the unfortunate Palme d'or reveal that occurred at last year's ceremony? You select a person who...
2022 Cannes: Mathieu Vadepied’s “Father & Soldier” is the Un Certain Regard Opener
Mathieu Vadepied's Father & Soldier has been selected as the Un Certain Regard opener. A film that we had slotted for a release in...
2022 Cannes: Léonor Serraille, Maryam Touzani & Emily Atef Among 17 Items Added to the Line-Up
And so we might not find out anytime soon what the deal with David Lynch was, but we now know that the final tally...
2022 Cannes Film Festival: Eight Possible 11th Hour Film Options
Critics' Week made their line-up public yesterday. Directors' Fortnight topper Paolo Moretti mentioned that there is one title from Asia that they are still...
2022 Cannes: Goutte d’Or, Alma Viva & The Woodcutter Story Among Critics’ Week Selections
The newly minted "French Touch" award could easily define Critics' Week topper Ava Cahen's first line-up edition - as the 2022 slate is full...
2022 Cannes: Hansen-Løve, Winocour, Léa Mysius & Anna Rose Holmer in the Directors’ Fortnight
Pietro Marcello will be joined by the likes of Mia Hansen-Løve, Alice Winocour with sophomore features from Léa Mysius & Anna Rose Holmer in...
2022 Cannes: Pietro Marcello’s L’envol (Scarlet) to Open the Directors’ Fortnight
A film that we wholeheartedly thought was going to be in the competition for the Palme, will instead be the highlight opening film for...
2022 Cannes: Abbasi, Dhont, Reichardt, Mungiu & Claire Denis Among 18 Titles Vying for Palme d’Or
The likes of first-time comp contenders Kelly Reichardt, Ali Abbasi and Lucas Dhont are joining former Palme d'Or winners Ruben Östlund, Kore-eda Hirokazu, the...
2022 Cannes: Quentin Dupieux, Panos H. Koutras, George Miller & Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes in Cannes Non-Comp
The best film from Sundance (Shaunak Sen's All That Breathes), the film that Sundance lost (Michel Hazanvicius' Final Cut), Quentin Dupieux's second film to...
2022 Cannes: Hlynur Pálmason, Agnieszka Smoczyńska & Davy Chou in the Un Certain Regard
Still without the section opener and a couple of films shy from being complete, nearly half of the fifteen titles selected for this year's...
Five Under The Radar Titles Gunning For Cannes 2022!
With less than a week until they announce the line-up for the Cannes Film Festival line-up (Directors' Fortnight and Critics' Week will unveil their...
2022 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – 24 Palme d’Or Hopefuls
We've looked at the non-competing sections (10 predictions). We've visited (20 predictions) the possible Critics' Week programme. We explored (20 predictions) options for the...
2022 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Un Certain Regard
Hovering around the eighteen to twenty film selection range, the Un Certain Regard section wasn't necessarily overhauled but there was an unofficial memo that...
2022 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Directors’ Fortnight
Last month we learned that the upcoming 2022 edition of Directors' Fortnight (aka Quinzaine) taking place between May 18th to the 27th will be...
2022 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Critics’ Week
There have been some past editions that have been French/Euro heavy, but for the most part, the programme Critics' Week (Semaine de la Critique)...
