Tag: 2023 Cannes Film Festival
Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3
The short films, music videos, commercials and sometimes feature films filmmaker when he finds the time, it feels like we waited an eternity since...
Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s About Dry Grasses – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3
A lengthy shoot, a lengthy post-production process and a lengthy runtime mean it's business as usual for our favorite Turkish auteur. A mainstay on...
Il pleut dans la maison (It’s Raining in the House) | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
Baby the Rain Must Fall: Life Imitates Art in Serman-Daï’s Narrative Debut
There’s a literalness in It’s Raining In The House (Il pleut dans la maison)...
Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire’s Black Flies – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2
One of the last two film items added to the competition this year, Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire's Black Flies makes it three for three on the...
Les meutes (Hounds) | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
Wash Away Your Sins: The Apple Falls a Bit Further Out From the Tree in Lazraq’s Stunning Debut
Father and son learn the power of...
Wang Bing’s Youth (Spring) – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2
One of the two documentaries selected for the competition (this is more of a traditional docu whereas the other is considered a hybrid), Wang...
Catherine Corsini’s Le retour (Homecoming) – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 1
The second film in the comp and first French film item and one of seven feature debuts from female filmmakers comes with an interesting...
Le retour | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
Put a Label on It: Corsini’s Corsica is a Lieu for Inter & Intra-personal Growth
Napoleon Bonaparte’s birthplace is certainly a site rich in history...
Kore-eda Hirokazu’s Monster – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 1
We begin the competition with one of many Palme d'Or winners who are looking to possibly add a second or in the case of...
Ama Gloria | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
Cléo Entre 5 et 7: Everyone Shares the Same Song in Amachoukeli’s Sophisticated Sophomore Feature
Letting go is never easy but what happens when it’s...
You BETcha!: Kaouther Ben Hania, Ramata-Toulaye Sy, Alice Rohrwacher, Wang Bing & Glazer Top Contenders for the Palme d’Or
Yesterday the Cannes Film Festival opened with Maïwenn’s Jeanne du Barry (marking the return of Johnny Depp in the French language no less) but...
Live from Cannes: 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel – Meet the Jury!
Last year Ruben Östlund took home the big daddy of film prizes winning his second Palme d'Or and this year he gets to be...
2023 Cannes Clip: Losing Half the Pie and a Lot More in Amjad Al Rasheed’s Inshallah a Boy
Part of a large wave of Arab cinema covering all sections of this year's Cannes Film Festival we find the first-ever Jordanian feature. Set...
Exclusive: Clips for Filipa Reis & João Miller Guerra’s Légua – 2023 Directors’ Fortnight Selection
Last week we featured the poster one-sheet for Filipa Reis and João Miller Guerra’s Légua - and now we have a bit more of...
2023 Cannes Clip: Efira Tries to Keep Family Together in Delphine Deloget’s All To Play For (Rien à perdre)
Shoring up in Cannes with two features, Virginie Efira is cast as a mother going the twelve rounds in Delphine Deloget's feature debut All...
2023 Cannes Clip: Rémy & Sandra Are Super Open in Ann Sirot & Raphaël Balboni’s The (Ex)perience of Love
Sure to add some spice and throw some intellectual stimuli to what is the norm for the heteronormative -- Belgium filmmaker tandem Ann Sirot...
Exclusive: Poster for Filipa Reis & João Miller Guerra’s Légua – 2023 Directors’ Fortnight Selection
Set to have its world premiere screening (05.23) in the Directors' Fortnight section, we have your exclusive first look at poster one-sheet for tandem...
2023 Cannes: Palme Winner Julia Ducournau, Paul Dano & Rungano Nyoni Among Jury!
Ruben Östlund has a bunch of cinephile buddies to help him hand out the big daddy of all film prizes this May with the...
2023 Cannes: Sauvaire’s Black Flies & Corsini’s Le retour in Palme Race; Escalante & Alonso in Cannes Premiere
Thierry Frémaux has circled Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire's Black Flies (which we thought would have been an OOC offering) and the already battle-ready nouveau item by...
2023 Cannes: The Lucky 13 Critics’ Week Shorts Unveiled
And in the Critics' Week second wave of film announcements, we now draw our focus on the short film competition which includes a firm...
2023 Cannes: Cédric Kahn & Hong Sang-soo Bookend Directors’ Fortnight
Quinzaine des Cinéastes Artistic Director Julien Rejl broke bread this morning with a camera shy live tweet of the line-up. We count nineteen features...
2023 Cannes: Amachoukeli, Stéphan Castang, Erwan Le Duc & Sirot+Balboni Load Up Critics’ Week
She couldn't have asked for a better way to begin her mandate as the Artistic Director of the 2022 edition of the International Critics'...
2023 Cannes: Steve McQueen, Takeshi Kitano & Victor Erice Featured in the Out of Comp Sections
Let it be known that Thierry Frémaux wanted Martin Scorsese in competition but instead, Killers of the Flower Moon will have been a firm...
2023 Cannes: Debut Films by Molly Manning Walker, Felipe Galvez & Delphine Deloget Sprinkle the Un Certain Regard Section
With the likes of Return to Seoul, Godland, Corsage, War Pony and The Worst Ones, last year's Un Certain Regard section was a vintage...
2023 Cannes: Glazer, Ceylan, Rohrwacher, Haynes & Ramata-Toulaye Sy Competing for the Palme d’Or
A surprise Wim Wenders project (Perfect Days), a rare directorial debut Ramata-Toulaye Sy (Banel et Adama) and a Wang Bing film (Jeunesse) are part...
2023 Cannes Film Festival: Maïwenn’s Jeanne du Barry is the Fest Opener – Will it Slip into Competition?
Despite being selected for the competition (technically) on three occasions with 2011's Polisse, 2015's My King and 2020's Cannes Label selected DNA, we didn't...
2023 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – 24 Palme d’Or Hopefuls
It's official folks! The drop date has been confirmed. There'll be a couple of films that trickle in a bit after the announcement is...
2023 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Out of Comp, Midnight, Special Screenings & Cannes Premiere
The 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival (May 16th until the 27th) begins exactly fifty days from now and from the one-hundred-plus feature...
2023 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Un Certain Regard
Last year's Un Certain Regard was a vintage year. A trio of films in Return to Seoul, Corsage and Godland could have easily been...
2023 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Directors’ Fortnight
The Director's Fortnight didn't simply give itself a new coat of paint but rather a heart transplant. Quinzaine des Réalisateurs is now a thing...
2023 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Critics’ Week
In a decade from now, we might be looking at all the offerings at last year's Cannes Film Festival and how Charlotte Well's masterwork...
