Tag: 2024 Cannes Film Festival
The Story of Souleymane | 2024 Cannes Film Festival 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...
Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5
His has a longstanding tradition with the Cannes Film Festival this former Palme d'Or winner for Dheepan (2015) moved into a completely different language,...
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...
Jia Zhangke’s Caught By the Tides – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5
Both a Venice and Cannes Film Festival veteran, Jia Zhangke is coming to Cannes packing not one but two projects - one being a...
Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4
Writer of the 1976 Palme d'Or winner Taxi Driver, and having been in comp with Mishima (1985) and Patty Hearst (1988), this is Paul...
Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4
A film that went into production as they were still doing post-production on Poor Things, Kinds of Kindness becomes Yorgos Lanthimos' third trip to...
Emanuel Pârvu’s Three Kilometres to the End of the World – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4
One of the last trio of entries to be included in the competition was completely off our radar. Actor turned director Emanuel Pârvu's third...
In Retreat | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
A Man of Constant Sorrow: Ali Explores the Network of Disconnection
There’s an inescapable sense of mournfulness throughout Maisam Ali’s debut In Retreat, in which...
Savanna and the Mountain | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Once Upon a Time in Barroso: Carneiro Speaks Truth to Power
Opening with the gusto of a faded fairy tale, Portuguese filmmaker Paulo Carneiro’s Savanna...
Three Kilometres To The End Of The World | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
It Can’t Happen Here: Parvu’s Agonizing Procedural on Small Town Homophobia
For his third feature, Three Kilometers to the End of the World, Romanian director...
Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3
Winner of two Palme d'Ors, Francis Ford Coppola's makes a huge return to Cannes with a film that will not go unnoticed in Megalopolis....
Les Fantômes (Ghost Trail) | 2024 Cannes Film Festival 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...
Andrea Arnold’s Bird – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3
We have two English-language items with two very different price tags in today's double pairing for the competition. The first item out of the...
The Invasion | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Life During Wartime: Loznitsa’s Gaze Blankets Ukraine
Director Sergei Loznitsa continues as the ultimate contemporary chronicler of Ukraine’s past and present, his latest, the aptly...
The Hyperboreans | 2024 Cannes Film Festival 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...
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...
Locust | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Code of Silence: KEFF Revisits Time of Turmoil
For his directorial debut, KEFF revisits the pinnacle of turmoil during the 2019 Hong Kong protests as...
Magnus von Horn’s The Girl with the Needle – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2
The slot belonging to the second film of the competition belonged to Magnus von Horn's The Girl with the Needle (aka Pigen med nålen)...
Agathe Riedinger’s Wild Diamond – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 1
We kicked off the competition of twenty-two films with a debut feature, which is worth noting given the rarity of newbies in the competition...
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Other People’s Money: Rosselli Finds Being Criminal is Relative
In keeping with a growing tradition of contemporary Argentinian cinema’s unorthodox narrative structures, editor Hernán Rosselli...
When The Light Breaks | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Grieving Rights: Runarsson Explores Interrupted Mourning
For his fourth narrative feature, Iceland’s Rúnar Rúnarsson returns to themes of emotional disruption with When the Light Breaks....
Live From Cannes!!! Meet the Jury For Our 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel
Except for the pandemic year, we've hosted our bi-daily (sometimes tri-daily) Palme d'Or competition Cannes Critics' Panel since 2011. Over the years, our panel...
Diamant Brut (Wild Diamond) | 2024 Cannes Film Festival 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...
Simon of the Mountain | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
The Face of An(other): Luis Complicates Identity Politics
Although it’s playing quite purposefully with various ambiguities and motifs, Federico Luis’ directorial debut Simon de...
Le Deuxième Acte (The Second Act) | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
The Art of Saying Nothing: Dupieux Deconstructs Cinema
Had Luis Bunuel approached conveying the reality of cinema produced by artificial intelligence, there may have been...
Exclusive Clips: Lorenzo Ferro is Hard to Read in Federico Luis’ “Simon of the Mountain” – 2024 Cannes Film Festival
Among the Croisette items contending for the prestigious Caméra d'Or at Cannes, a fresh voice emerges from Argentina's film scene: Federico Luis, a filmmaker...
Exclusive Clip: Antoine Chevrollier’s La Pampa aka Block Pass – 2024 Cannes Film Festival
In the realm of dirt bike racing, the term "block pass" describes when you obstruct someone's path with your bike and body, effectively standing...
2024 Cannes Film Festival: Claude Barras’ “Sauvages” & Paronnaud/Ducord’s “Into the Wonderwoods” Added!
The filmmakers of My Life as a Courgette and Persepolis are set to return to the big stage with their latest films as the...
2024 Cannes Film Festival: Wim Wenders, Jean-Luc Godard & Akira Kurosawa Feted in Classics Section
The section that we criminally need to overlook while covering the festival, the Cannes Classics films (excluding Le Cinéma de la Plage) are the...
2024 Cannes Film Festival: Samir Karahoda, André Hayato Saito & Daniel Soares Among Palme Short Hopefuls
And last but not least, the Cannes Film Festival has announced the eleven shorts competing for the Palme d'Or.
Selected from just over 4400 submitted...
2024 Cannes Film Festival: Rúnar Rúnarsson, Céline Sallette, Jessica Palud & Emanuel Parvu in Final Add-Ons
Today we've got a baker's dozen thirteen added to the Cannes 2024 edition. We learned beforehand that Mohammad Rasoulof and Michel Hazanavicius we competition...
2024 Cannes Film Festival: Hazanavicius’ “The Most Precious of Cargoes” & Rasoulof’s “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” in Comp
Are we capping off the Palme d'Or competition at twenty-one? This might be the case as we learned this morning (looks like Variety has...
2024 Cannes Film Festival: Audrey Diwan, Abdellatif Kechiche & Jessica Palud Among 11th Hour Film Options?
The films from the Critics’ Week and Directors’ Fortnight sections are now on firm grounds and as we anticipate the unveiling of the Cannes...
2024 Cannes Film Festival: Elena López Riera, Anna Hints & Lucie Borleteau Among Lucky 13 Shorts in Critics’ Week
After unveiling their feature film line-up on Monday, now the spotlight is on the shorts this morning. La Semaine de la Critique aka Critics'...
2024 Cannes Film Festival: Josh Mond, Camila Beltrán & Guillaume Brac Drop ACID
With the likes of Maciek Hamela's documentary In the Rearview and Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach's animated film Chicken for Linda!, 2023 turned out...
2024 Cannes Film Festival: Matthew Rankin, Tyler Taormina, Poggi/Vinel & India Donaldson Lock in Directors’ Fortnight
This year's edition of the Directors' Fortnight will begin with Barbie and end with...plastic. Julien Rejl's selection committee have lassoed a total of twenty-one...
2024 Cannes Film Festival: Jonathan Millet, Saïd Hamich Benlarbi & Emma Benestan Load Up Critics’ Week
Last year the Critics' Week section introduced us to first and second features from the likes of Vladimir Perišić, Iris Kaltenbäck, Amanda Nell Eu,...
2024 Cannes Film Festival: Sergei Loznitsa, Leos Carax, Alain Guiraudie, Claire Simon & Noemie Merlant Pack Cannes
The Cannes Premiere section stocked up on films from France with Alain Guiraudie's Misericorde among the mix, the Out of Competition section added a...
2024 Cannes Film Festival: Ariane Labed, Rungano Nyoni, Mo Harawe, Konstantin Bojanov & Roberto Minervini in Un Certain Regard
Actresses Ariane Labed and Laetitia Dosch, Halfdan Ullman Tondel, Mo Harawe, Louise Courvoisier and Julien Colonna are part of the half dozen selected filmmakers...
2024 Cannes Film Festival: Payal Kapadia, Lanthimos, Baker, Gomes & Agathe Riedinger’s Debut Vie for Palme d’Or
With today's announcement of nineteen competition titles aiming in contention of the Palme d'Or (note that we might add another pair or trio next...
2024 Directors’ Fortnight Golden Coach Award: Andrea Arnold (and “Bird”) Honored in Cannes
British filmmaker Andrea Arnold is packing her bags for the Cannes Film Festival. She'll need to make some space in her luggage for Directors'...
2024 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – 25 Possible Palme d’Or Competition Films
Usually in the twenty to twenty-two film range, the competition for the Palme d'Or has been a tad more inclusive in recent years in...
2024 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Un Certain Regard (Part 2)
Yesterday we tossed filmmaker names like Ala Eddine Slim, Alexandre Koberidze, Marco Dutra and the tandem of Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza into the...
2024 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Un Certain Regard (Part 1)
Last year's Un Certain Regard section had a treasure trove of highlights in Kamal Lazraq's Hounds, Rodrigo Moreno's Los Delincuentes, Asmae El Moudir's The...
2024 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Directors’ Fortnight
In their inaugural edition and first mandate, Artistic Director Julien Rejl oversaw a significant transformation of the Directors' Fortnight, not only altering its name...
2024 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Critics’ Week
Last year's edition of Critics' Week featured the likes of Ama Gloria, Tiger Stripes and Iris Kaltenbäck's Le Ravissement -- which would become the...
2024 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Asif Kapadia, Quentin Dupieux & Kiyoshi Kurosawa Best Bets in Non Comps
The majority of the Cannes Film Festival lineup is set to be revealed on April 11th, however, before we delve into the films that...
2024 Cannes: Mumblecore to Barbie to the Croisette: Greta Gerwig is Jury President
In a bold, refreshing move, Thierry Frémaux's first decision for the 2024 Cannes Film Festival is likely to be a people-pleaser. Synonymous with mumblecore,...
