Tag: 2024 Cannes Film Festival
The Hyperboreans | Review
From the Land of Ice and Snow: Cocina & Leon Pursue Hermetical Cinematic Spell
To say the latest feature from the experimentally inclined Chilean directing...
Motel Destino | Review
Destiny Indemnity: Ainouz Retrofits a Noir Classic
“Love, when you get fear in it, it’s not love any more, it’s hate,” wrote James M. Cain...
Souleymane’s Story | Review
Straightened Story: Lojkine’s Details Delivery App Woes to Application Process Lows
Standing on fertile creative ground, Boris Lojkine once again explores the narratives of individuals...
Wild Diamond (Diamant Brut) | Review
Teenage Wasteland: Riedinger’s Debut a Familiar Coming-of-Age Parade
All that glitters isn’t gold, but social media success can break the mould. At least that’s the...
Interview: Ariane Labed – September Says
A pivotal figure in the Greek Weird Wave, Ariane Labed first gained attention with her role in Yorgos Lanthimos’ Dogtooth (2009) before delivering an...
Ghost Trail | Review
The Executioner's Song: Millet’s Stabbing Debut Looks at How Control Moves Beyond Borders
If a Syrian doesn’t find himself in Syria does he still make...
Sister Midnight | Review
Crazy On You: Kandhari’s Strange Fantasy of Madness
It’s been nearly twenty years since director Karan Kandhari’s 2005 debut Bye Bye Miss Goodnight (since then working on...
The Damned | Review
The Damned Do Cry: Minervini Details a Doomed Mission
For his first narrative feature, Roberto Minervini tackles another aspect of the evolving American identity with The...
Caught by the Tides | Review
The Tide is High: Zhangke Splices Thwarted Romance Across Changing Times
Filmmaker Jia Zhangke presents something of an experimental anomaly with his latest feature, Caught...
Most People Die on Sundays | Review
A Month of Sundays: Said Squeezes Magic Out of Melancholy
The tagline for Iair Said’s sophomore film More People Die on Sundays (Los domingos mueren...
The Shrouds | Review
Death Be Not Shroud: Cronenberg Hits Dead Ends in Sluggish Mystery
The burial business serves as the battle ground for a complicated conundrum in David...
Grand Tour | Review
Runaway Groom: Gomes Charts a Barren Odyssey
In what serves as an extremely taxing personification of cold feet, Miguel Gomes feels as if he’s...
Holy Cow | Review
Smells Like Entrepreneurial Spirit!: Courvoisier Climbs Up the Totone Poll
In her directorial debut, Louise Courvoisier delves into themes of altruism and resilience, navigating a...
Being Maria | Review
Forever Noor: Palud’s Schneider Moves From Being a Passenger to Just Saying Non
Since the advent of cinema, it’s been standard operating procedure for the...
An Unfinished Film | Review
The Act of Watching: Lou Ye Mixes Picture Lock Dreams & Lock Down Nightmares
Does a film exist if it was never completed? It’s a...
Eephus | Review
Diamonds Are Not Forever: Lund Looks Beyond America's Favorite Pastime
Even with a full count of three balls and two strikes, it may seem...
Parthenope | Review
The Boring & Beautiful: Sorrentino’s Tone Deaf Portrait of a Lady
It’s unfortunate no one’s as likely to be infatuated with the eponymous Parthenope (pronounced...
Marcello Mio | Review
In the Name of the Father: Honore Pays Homage via Identity Crisis
“I only exist when I am working on a film,” Marcello Mastroianni...
The Substance | Review
Woman of Substance: Fargeat Rejuvenates Body Horror with Pulpy Parable
To borrow a succinct phrase from Beyonce, ‘pretty hurts,’ a sentiment quivering through Coraline Fargeat’s...
Eat the Night | Review
The Sway of the Sword: Reality Bytes in Poggi/Vinel's Bleak Online/Offline Portrait
Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel's sophomore feature outing pulses with the heartbeat of...
Oh, Canada | Review
Pieces of a Man: Schrader Explores Atonement in Toned Down Adaptation
Throughout his illustrious career as a director and screenwriter, Paul Schrader has specialized in...
The Girl with the Needle | Review
Casa de los Babys: von Horn Hits a Bleak Streak
You know you’re in for something dark and dreary when a film opens upon a...
The Seed of the Sacred Fig | Review
Way of the Gun: Rasoulof’s Bold, Blunt Indictment of Iranian Regime
There’s been little opportunity for artists to clearly or critically speak truth to power...
All We Imagine as Light | Review
The Big City: Kapadia Designs Lovely Portrait of Friendship and Free Will
Mumbai is a city of illusions, a character remarks in Payal Kapadia’s debut...
Bird | Review
Dole Days: Arnold Flutters About with Strange Bedfellows
There’s certainly a definable emotional core in Andrea Arnold’s fifth narrative feature, Bird, but the ideas and...
Emilia Pérez | Review
Risky Business: Audiard Surprises with Vibrant Genre Musical
Although it’s assembled from unlikely, even questionable sources, Jacques Audiard’s latest feature, Emilia Pérez, a genre...
Anora | Review
Fools Russia In: Baker’s Bangin’ Screwball Comedy
At this point in his career, filmmaker Sean Baker seems to have covered all the major facets of...
The Apprentice | Review
The Devil and Donald Trump: Abbasi Reconstructs the Rise of a Crony Capitalist
Among the many wise observations written by nineteenth century Englishman Lord Acton,...
Megalopolis | Review
Atlas Farted: Coppola’s Labor of Love a Lackluster Saga
While he’s one of the greatest film directors of all time, mostly thanks to a handful...
Kinds of Kindness | Review
Bounds of Boundaries: Lanthimos Entertains Himself with Bizarre Triptych
It’s safe to say Yorgos Lanthimos has undoubtedly entered the oblivious, self-indulgent era of his career...
2024 Cannes Film Festival Winners – Un Certain Regard [Video]
The Un Certain Regard jury of five in Xavier Dolan, Maïmouna Doucouré, Asmae El Moudir, Vicky Krieps, and Todd McCarthy offered a total of...
2024 Cannes Film Festival Winners – Competition [Video]
The jury of Greta Gerwig, filmmakers J. A. Bayona, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Nadine Labaki, acting folks Eva Green, Omar Sy, Lily Gladstone and Pierfrancesco Favino...
2024 Cannes Film Festival – Checklist of Our Reviews
IONCINEMA.com's Chief Film Critic Nicholas Bell reviewed the entire competition and more. Here is a comprehensive guide to all the feature films across all...
2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Rasoulof, Kapadia, Audiard, Baker & Schrader are Top 5
On awards day, there is what they call le reprise des films de la Compétition - essentially each film in the comp receives one...
The Most Precious Of Cargoes | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
The Zone of Disinterest: Hazanavicius Reanimates the Holocaust in Moral Fable
What’s most interesting about director Michel Hazanavicius are his valiant attempts at dabbling in...
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga | Review
Woman Thou Art Loosed: Miller Wades into the Wasteland
In all likelihood, George Miller presumably will be closing out his filmography the same way it...
2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig Tops Our Grid
And finally, it came down to the wire for not one, but two films that disrupted what had been the top-ranked film among our...
Michel Hazanavicius’ The Most Precious of Cargoes – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 11
The only animated film in the competition, Michel Hazanavicius has been a favorite of the festival landing several competition berths beginning with 2011’s The...
Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 11
The narrative behind Mohammad Rasoulof's journey to the Cannes competition (his first) will be talked about for a long time. Escaping his homeland (and...
Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10
It's been a solid three decades since Shaji N Karun's Swaham competed for Palme in 1994, making this a significant moment for Indian auteur...
Gilles Lellouche’s Beating Hearts – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10
The popular French actor working in just about every film genre has been on the Croisette on a couple of occasions but as a...
L’amour Ouf (Beating Hearts) | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Thief of Hearts: Lellouche’s Sprawling Romance Has Arrhythmia
A common occurrence for actors moonlighting as directors is not knowing how to hone a focus, crafting...
Karim Aïnouz’s Motel Destino – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9
One of the favorited Brazilian filmmakers of the Cannes film festival with Madame Satã (2002), O Céu de Suely (2006), and winner A Vida...
Miguel Gomes’ Grand Tour – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9
I still recall when Miguel Gomes took over the Directors' Fortnight section with not one, but three films for the The Arabian Nights trilogy (Volume...
Paolo Sorrentino’s Parthenope – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8
If he has the option between the Croisette or the Lido, Paolo Sorrentino is going to... France. His Cannes journey began with 2004’s The...
Christophe Honoré’s Marcello Mio – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8
Having sprinkled his films in the competition section twice before with Les chansons d’amour (2007) and Sorry Angel (2018), Christophe Honoré has also populated...
Sean Baker’s Anora – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8
Returning to the official competition for a second time, this is American indie filmmaker Sean Baker's third consecutive trip to Cannes after The Florida...
Animale | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Toro Toro Toro: Amamra Grabs the Bull By the Horns in Transformative Role
For those who champion the bull in Spain's electrifying yet antiquated tradition...
David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7
In his late career resurgence with Crimes of the Future having been showcased in the comp in 2022, David Cronenberg makes his entrance with...
Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7
Making it three features in a row that'll have premiered on the Croisette, Iranian-Danish filmmaker Ali Abbasi saw his sophomore feature Border play like...
