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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...
2024 European Film Awards: Audiard, Guiraudie, Fargeat, Gomes & Rasoulof Among First Selections
The 2024 Fiction Feature Film selections are in and we have twenty-nine film titles as part of the first wave of eligible Euro items....
2024 TIFF: Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance” Opens the Midnight Madness Programme
It was considered a "risky" film selection by Thierry Frémaux that divided critics but found a large swath of defenders (including our chief film...
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...
Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6
Many were left scratching their heads when Cannes topper Thierry Frémaux made The Substance a part of the competition (and conversation) and the reason...
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 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...