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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...

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...

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...

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...

Always on the Run: Karim Aïnouz Checks into “Motel Destino”

Before moving on to his next weighty film project in Rosebushpruning (set for Spring 2024), Karim Aïnouz has already begun filming his next feature...

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