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Karim Aïnouz’s Firebrand – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5
A mainstay in the Un Certain Regard section (with a whopping four films as director/writer) and has sprinkled his films in Venice and Berlinale...
The Buriti Flower (Crowrã) | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
Rites of Resistance: Messora & Salaviza Provide Historical Ellipses of the Krahô
Researching a community without causing hindrance or harm has long been a concern...
Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5
French filmmaker Justine Triet was born in Cannes and will likely re-engage with the fest well beyond 2023. After Age of Panic (2013) -...
Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s Banel & Adama – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4
It's extremely rare for a first-time filmmaker to crack the competition and this is case it is African cinema that is being feted for...
Todd Haynes’ May December – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4
After a quick trip to Paris for a retrospective of his career at the Centre Pompidou, Todd Haynes comes back to Cannes for his...
Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
The End of the Affair: Naveriani Finds Love in a Hopeless Place
Georgian filmmaker Elene Naveriani solidifies her gravitational pull towards examining rural social misfits...
The (Ex)perience of Love | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
Let’s Talk About Ex Baby: Balboni/Sirot Need A Lot More Lube for Rom Com
Containing enough notable moments that when stacked together would have worked...
Kaouther Ben Hania’s Four Daughters – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3
Another first-timer in the comp, Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania came to Cannes in 2017 for the Un Certain Regard section selected Beauty and...
Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3
The short films, music videos, commercials and sometimes feature films filmmaker when he finds the time, it feels like we waited an eternity since...
Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s About Dry Grasses – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3
A lengthy shoot, a lengthy post-production process and a lengthy runtime mean it's business as usual for our favorite Turkish auteur. A mainstay on...
Il pleut dans la maison (It’s Raining in the House) | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
Baby the Rain Must Fall: Life Imitates Art in Serman-Daï’s Narrative Debut
There’s a literalness in It’s Raining In The House (Il pleut dans la maison)...
Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire’s Black Flies – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2
One of the last two film items added to the competition this year, Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire's Black Flies makes it three for three on the...
Les meutes (Hounds) | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
Wash Away Your Sins: The Apple Falls a Bit Further Out From the Tree in Lazraq’s Stunning Debut
Father and son learn the power of...
Wang Bing’s Youth (Spring) – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2
One of the two documentaries selected for the competition (this is more of a traditional docu whereas the other is considered a hybrid), Wang...
Catherine Corsini’s Le retour (Homecoming) – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 1
The second film in the comp and first French film item and one of seven feature debuts from female filmmakers comes with an interesting...
Le retour | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
Put a Label on It: Corsini’s Corsica is a Lieu for Inter & Intra-personal Growth
Napoleon Bonaparte’s birthplace is certainly a site rich in history...
Kore-eda Hirokazu’s Monster – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 1
We begin the competition with one of many Palme d'Or winners who are looking to possibly add a second or in the case of...
Ama Gloria | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
Cléo Entre 5 et 7: Everyone Shares the Same Song in Amachoukeli’s Sophisticated Sophomore Feature
Letting go is never easy but what happens when it’s...
You BETcha!: Kaouther Ben Hania, Ramata-Toulaye Sy, Alice Rohrwacher, Wang Bing & Glazer Top Contenders for the Palme d’Or
Yesterday the Cannes Film Festival opened with Maïwenn’s Jeanne du Barry (marking the return of Johnny Depp in the French language no less) but...
Live from Cannes: 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel – Meet the Jury!
Last year Ruben Östlund took home the big daddy of film prizes winning his second Palme d'Or and this year he gets to be...
Interview: Francisca Alegria, Mia Maestro & Leonor Varela – The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future
Francisca Alegria’s The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future is unlike any other experience offered by Sundance ’22: a deeply moving onscreen...
Master Gardener | Review
That Shall He Also Reap: Schrader Sows the Seeds of Fate with Metaphorical Blossoms
The seeds of hate are sown the same as seeds of...
The Night of the 12th | Review
Hero Complex: Moll Refreshes Detective Procedural with Cat's Paw Narrative
With his early naughts (With a Friend Like Harry..., Lemming) and grisly disappearance thriller Only...
2023 Cannes Clip: Losing Half the Pie and a Lot More in Amjad Al Rasheed’s Inshallah a Boy
Part of a large wave of Arab cinema covering all sections of this year's Cannes Film Festival we find the first-ever Jordanian feature. Set...
Exclusive: Clips for Filipa Reis & João Miller Guerra’s Légua – 2023 Directors’ Fortnight Selection
Last week we featured the poster one-sheet for Filipa Reis and João Miller Guerra’s Légua - and now we have a bit more of...
Butterfly Vision | Review
Coming Home: Nakonechnyi Explores Collateral Damage in Prescient Drama
While the near decade long conflict between Russian and Ukraine has spilled into full-blown war, a...
BlackBerry | Review
Hold the Phone: Johnson Delivers the Ballad of the BlackBerry
Exposing the accidental alchemy which generated the titular BlackBerry, the world’s first Smartphone (and as...
Monica | Review
Portrait of a Lady: Pallaoro Quietly Searches for Grace in Profound Reconciliation
There’s a relentless, nearly crushing sense of heartache girding Andrea Pallaoro’s Monica, his...
2023 Cannes Clip: Efira Tries to Keep Family Together in Delphine Deloget’s All To Play For (Rien à perdre)
Shoring up in Cannes with two features, Virginie Efira is cast as a mother going the twelve rounds in Delphine Deloget's feature debut All...
2023 Cannes Clip: Rémy & Sandra Are Super Open in Ann Sirot & Raphaël Balboni’s The (Ex)perience of Love
Sure to add some spice and throw some intellectual stimuli to what is the norm for the heteronormative -- Belgium filmmaker tandem Ann Sirot...
Exclusive: Poster for Filipa Reis & João Miller Guerra’s Légua – 2023 Directors’ Fortnight Selection
Set to have its world premiere screening (05.23) in the Directors' Fortnight section, we have your exclusive first look at poster one-sheet for tandem...
All Guts No Glory: Céleste Brunnquel, Renier, Edoardo Pesce & Matt Dilon Join Jessica Palud’s “Maria”
Anamaria Vartolomei (who broke out big in Audrey Diwan's Happening) will be surrounded by the likes of Céleste Brunnquell (who'll be seen in Critics'...
2023 TorinoFilmLab: Chie Hayakawa, Vytautas Katkus & Manuela Martelli Land Support
One of the most important labs out there for first and second-time filmmakers, the TorinoFilmLab (TFL) have thrown coin towards 10 projects for the...
Interview: Manuela Martelli – Chile ’76
We had some formidable directorial debuts stretching across the Croisette this past May. At the Critics' Week, we had Charlotte Wells' gem Aftersun, in...
R.M.N. | Review
On a Racist Day You Can See Forever: Mungiu Confronts Nationalism in Fractious Drama
On the surface, R.M.N., the latest feature from Romanian New Wave...
Winter Boy (Le Lycéen) | Review
Hazy Shade of Winter: Honore Deals with a Death in the Family in Sincere Coming-of-Age
Christophe Honoré has built an intricate filmography on the backs...
What’s in Store for 2024?: Noémie Merlant, Leyla Bouzid & Marjane Satrapi Receive CNC Coin
A dozen 12 projects have been selected as part of the second 2023 session of the CNC’s advance on receipts committee and floating at...
Let’s Talk About “Sex” – Mubi Land Molly Manning Walker’s Directorial Un Certain Regard Selected Debut
Always an encouraging sign when a film gets pre-bought close to a month before its world premiere. This is the case for Molly Manning...
Rebel Rodríguez: Paula Ortiz Traces Footsteps of Spanish Pioneer “Hildegart”
The other day Variety provided an update on Amazon’s Prime Video film items in the works for the Spanish market and one project that...
The Sonne and then the “Moon”: Kurdwin Ayub Begins Production on Sophomore Narrative Feature
Iraq-born Austrian filmmaker Kurdwin Ayub has just begun work on Mond (the translation of the word Moon). She is re-teaming with Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion...
Interview: Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson – Beautiful Beings
In anticipation of the upcoming 95th Academy Awards, I conversed with Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson, whose sophomore film Beautiful Beings is Iceland’s official submission in...
2023 Cannes: Sauvaire’s Black Flies & Corsini’s Le retour in Palme Race; Escalante & Alonso in Cannes Premiere
Thierry Frémaux has circled Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire's Black Flies (which we thought would have been an OOC offering) and the already battle-ready nouveau item by...
Western Ex-pat: Audrey Diwan Reteams with Anamaria Vartolomei for “Emmanuelle”
Currently in pre-production phase and deep in the casting process, Audrey Diwan (who will be in Cannes as the head of the Critic's Week...
Les Enfants des Autres (Other People’s Children) | Review
Sex and Longing: Efira Shines in Zlotowski’s Portrait of Missed Opportunities
In a celebrated tradition of quietly personal characterizations French cinema is known for, Rebecca...
Somewhere in Queens | Review
Sticks and Stones: Romano’s Lovable Directorial Debut
Ray Romano’s first foray into acting-directing, Somewhere in Queens, is an uproarious family drama more akin to Little...
Blowing Horn: Paul Rudd to Find Divine Truth in Alex Scharfman’s “Death of a Unicorne”
After a decade of producing (beginning with The Heart Machine and more recently Resurrection), American indie producer Alex Scharfman is getting behind the camera...
Environ-Metal: Finnegan Oldfield & Daphné Patakia Swim to Lucie Prost’s Debut “Les truites”
After receiving some CNC Coin back in March of '22, French filmmaker Lucie Prost is to begin production on what sounds like if you...
Plan 75 | Review
Aging Disgracefully: Hayakawa Questions Institutional & Internalized Ageism
If a septuagenarian falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it...
2023 Cannes: The Lucky 13 Critics’ Week Shorts Unveiled
And in the Critics' Week second wave of film announcements, we now draw our focus on the short film competition which includes a firm...
Elder Care: Hammer Begins Production on “Queen at Sea” with Juliette Binoche
We were in almost in disbelief when Juliette Binoche casually mentioned back in January of last year that she was in a new work...
