Tag: 2023 Cannes Film Festival
Power Alley (Levante) | Review
That Time of the Month: Halla Offers Ringside Seats to the Courts - Both On and Off
In one’s timeline, it’s the pre-adulthood teenage years...
The Nature of Love | Review
Heart in the Right Place: Chokri Lets the Body & the Camera Do the Talking in Rom Dramedy
French Canadian filmmaker Monia Chokri adds another...
Last Summer (L’Été dernier) | Review
One Deadly Summer: Breillat Agitates Another Sexual Taboo
Suddenly, last summer, a successful lawyer who has it all risks throwing her life away with an...
Firebrand | Review
One Survived: Ainouz Attempts to Give a Queen Her Due
The Tudor era has maintained public fascination for the past five hundred years, a linchpin...
Banel & Adama | Review
A Place in the Sun: Sy’s Fascinating Debut on Ruinous Social Obligations
It takes a village…to put you in your place, or so it...
Jeanne du Barry | Review
Vanity Affair: Maïwenn Tarries with Madame du Barry
For her sixth feature film, Maïwenn tackles her first period piece with Jeanne du Barry, resurrecting a...
The Old Oak | Review
A Tree Grows in England: Loach Loses Steam in Klutzy Refugee Drama
There’s no doubt Ken Loach is one of the most prominent social-realist directors...
La Chimera | Review
The Passionate Thief: Rohrwacher Finds Treasures Under the Tuscan Sun
“The sun is following us,” whispers a willowy blonde in the enigmatic opening moments...
Asphalt City | Review
Angel Heart: Sauvaire Serves Savior Complex in EMS Thriller
“It’s easier with wings than without,” was the tagline for Wim Wenders’ 1987 film Wings of...
Club Zero | Review
The Prime of Miss Jean Foodie: Hausner Satirizes Cult Behavior Through Caloric Deficit
Expanding on the genre sentiments which guided her past titles Hotel (2004)...
About Dry Grasses | Review
To Sir, With Ego: Ceylan Waltzes with Narcissism in Captivating Character Study
The filmography of Nuri Bilge Ceylan is characterized by complex examinations of human...
Perdidos en la noche (Lost in the Night) | Review
Night Moves: Escalante Cultivates a Moody, Capricious Mystery
Replete with a slew of customary features encountered in a fatalistic film noir, Amat Escalante’s fifth feature,...
The Taste of Things | Review
Where’s the Beef?: Tran Anh Hung Activates the Salivary Glands
Gastronomy has never seemed so forlornly romantic as it is in Tran Anh Hung’s sumptuous...
Perfect Days | Review
Road to Nowhere: Wenders Welcomes the Pleasures of a Simple Life in Quiet Drama
In his most successfully realized narrative feature in years, Wim Wenders...
Mambar Pierrette | Review
In Fabric: Mbakam Conveys a Season’s Struggles in Cameroon
“In the ant’s house, the dew is a flood,” might be the proverbial dilemma faced by...
The Settlers | Review
Once Upon a Time in Chile: Haberle Crafts Colonialist Past as a Vicious Western
A quote from Sir Thomas More’s Utopia opens Felipe Gálvez’s sinister...
The Zone of Interest | Review
Verboten Zone: Glazer Returns with Historical Horror
It’s impossible to contemplate Jonathan Glazer’s fourth feature, The Zone of Interest, without referencing Hannah Arendt’s publication on...
Monster | Review
The Children’s Hour: Kore-eda Crafts a Melodramatic Puzzle
Returning to his native Japan after venturing out to France and South Korea with his last two...
May December | Review
Tarnished Angels: Haynes Curates a New Dazzling Cult Classic
Had Brian De Palma been keen on rehashing Douglas Sirk instead of Hitchcock, he might have...
Fallen Leaves | Review
All the Leaves Are Brown: Kaurismaki’s Song for the Lonely
Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismäki adds a fourth chapter to his thematic Proletariat Trilogy with...
Youth (Spring) | Review
The Workshop Around the Corner: Bing Threads Through Textile Manufacturing
Having filmed from 2014 to 2019 in the city of Zhili, Youth (Spring), one...
Four Daughters (Les filles d’Olfa) | Review
Leave Them to Heaven: Ben Hania Experiments with Form in Anguishing Roleplay
For her sixth feature, Four Daughters, Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania takes a...
Killers of the Flower Moon | Review
The Moon in the Gutter: Scorsese Tackles the Osage Nation Murders
Martin Scorsese’s highly anticipated adaption of David Grann’s 2017 non-fiction publication Killers of the...
Anatomy of a Fall | Review
Witness for the Prosecution: Triet Beguiles with Knotty Crime Procedural
Justine Triet reunites with several of her Sibyl (2019) collaborators on her best film to...
2023 Cannes Film Festival Winners – Un Certain Regard [Video]
This year's Un Certain Regard selection was a pretty sturdy class and the jury comprised of John C. Reilly, Alice Winocour, Paula Beer, Davy...
Asteroid City | Review
The Lost City of Twee: Anderson Continues Quest of Counterfeit Sentiments
Somewhere along the way, over the past twenty years, Wes Anderson’s style completely...
Interview: Faouzi Bensaïdi – Déserts
The very first image we find in Déserts informs the viewer that we need directions and that its the elements that have a stronger...
2023 Cannes Film Festival: Nicholas Bell & Eric Lavallée’s Top 10
We arrived. We watched. We reviewed. We lost a lot of sleep and we battled the ticketing system. Combining our efforts to bring you...
2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: The Zone of Interest, Fallen Leaves, La Chimera & Anatomy of a Fall Top Grid
It was hovering around the 4.0 average and would settle for a final 3.9 grade and never let go of the top spot in...
Ken Loach’s The Old Oak – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10
Will Ken Loach three-peat with what could be his last-ever feature? This is the question that Thierry Frémaux put forth and perhaps the best...
Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10
A Cannes mainstay since her humble beginnings in the Directors’ Fortnight section with Corpo celeste, Alice Rohrwacher quickly ascended to comp-worthy status with the...
Catherine Breillat’s L’Été dernier (Last Summer) – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9
Almost a full decade away from the camera since, Catherine Breillat returns to the competition with L'Été dernier (Last Summer). This is her second...
Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9
A notable year for the New German Cinema filmmaker with two (or three if you include Chambre 999) films in Cannes with docu item...
Nanni Moretti’s Il sol dell’avvenire – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8
Palme d’Or winner (The Son’s Room in 2001) Nanni Moretti makes another trip to the competition with an ode to cinema (and Martin Scorsese's...
Tran Anh Hung’s The Pot au Feu – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8
Winner of the Camera d'Or (and the Award of the Youth French Film) for The Scent of Green Papaya back in 1993, while he...
Il sol dell’avvenire (A Brighter Tomorrow) | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
If You Don’t Die Today: Moretti Can’t Find the Rhythm in Musical Delusion
To say the latest film from Nanni Moretti, Il sol dell'avvenire (A Brighter...
Rien à perdre (All to Play For) | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
Other People’s Children: Deloget Butts with Bureaucracy in Familial Drama
Virginie Efira continues to explore the arduous spectrum of contemporary motherhood in her latest film,...
Marco Bellocchio’s Kidnapped – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7
If we don't count the pandemic year, it will be four consecutive showings in Cannes for the maestro. The Traitor was in competition in...
Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7
Technically speaking the great American filmmaker Wes Anderson has now appeared in the Cannes competition with three titles - opening the '12 edition with...
Jessica Hausner’s Club Zero – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6
She officially graduated to the main competition section in Cannes with Little Joe in 2019 she now cements her status there with her latest...
Kidnapped (Rapito) | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
A Soul to Take: Bellocchio Deliriously Dissects a Papal Delictum
Marco Bellocchio has lost none of his flair nor his energetic zest in his latest...
Aki Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6
Following Drifting Clouds (1996), The Man Without a Past (2002), Lights in the Dusk (2006), and 2011's Le Havre, Finland's favorite auteur Aki Kaurismäki...
Karim Aïnouz’s Firebrand – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5
A mainstay in the Un Certain Regard section (with a whopping four films as director/writer) and has sprinkled his films in Venice and Berlinale...
The Buriti Flower (Crowrã) | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
Rites of Resistance: Messora & Salaviza Provide Historical Ellipses of the Krahô
Researching a community without causing hindrance or harm has long been a concern...
Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5
French filmmaker Justine Triet was born in Cannes and will likely re-engage with the fest well beyond 2023. After Age of Panic (2013) -...
Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s Banel & Adama – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4
It's extremely rare for a first-time filmmaker to crack the competition and this is case it is African cinema that is being feted for...
Todd Haynes’ May December – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4
After a quick trip to Paris for a retrospective of his career at the Centre Pompidou, Todd Haynes comes back to Cannes for his...
Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
The End of the Affair: Naveriani Finds Love in a Hopeless Place
Georgian filmmaker Elene Naveriani solidifies her gravitational pull towards examining rural social misfits...
The (Ex)perience of Love | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
Let’s Talk About Ex Baby: Balboni/Sirot Need A Lot More Lube for Rom Com
Containing enough notable moments that when stacked together would have worked...
Kaouther Ben Hania’s Four Daughters – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3
Another first-timer in the comp, Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania came to Cannes in 2017 for the Un Certain Regard section selected Beauty and...
