Tag: Gabriel Abrantes

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...

Diamantino | Review

Politicizing Camp: Abrantes & Schmidt Post a Win with Imaginative Soccer Satire After a decade decade working in the short experimental form, festival faves Gabriel Abrantes...

2019 Cannes: Zlotowski, Bonello, Takashi Miike, Robert Eggers, Lav Diaz & Guadagnino in Fortnight

We waited for the other shoe to drop and this year's Directors' Fortnight is chockfull of directorial films with six of the twenty-three (twenty-four...

2018 TIFF: Peter Strickland’s “In Fabric”Highlight of Midnight Madness Offerings

Two major studio films studio reboots in Shane Black’s The Predator and David Gordon Green’s Halloween, and three non world premieres (one Sundance and...

2018 Cannes Critics’ Week: Paul Dano’s Wildlife (Opener) & Agnieszka Smoczynska’s Fugue Selected

As per usual, Artistic Director Charles Tesson unveiled the line-up to the Cannes Critics' Week via the savoury film description friendly video. A program...

Cannes’ L’Atelier 2012: Marco van Geffen and Mahmoud Al Massad Among 15 Selected

In the seven previous editions (with 2007 being the best crop of films with noteworthy titles such as Bertrand Bonello's De La Guerre, Michelangelo...

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