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Forget the Rake: Aki Kaurismäki Sets up Tragicomedy “Dead Leaves” with Alma Pöysti
Some surprising news from Variety (from one of our own in Cannes Critics Panel journalist Marta Balaga) this morning with an update on Finnish...
On The Right Side of …. Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Wins Coin for Sophomore Project “Historia”
Up there with 21st Century masterwork debuts in the likes of Steve McQueen's Hunger and László Nemes' Son of Saul, we find Georgian 2020...
Be Kind Rewrite: Michel Gondry Begins Journey of “Le Livre des solutions” with Pierre Niney
We tapped out of Michel Gondry cinema back when Be Kind Rewind was released, and suddenly the filmmaker is now at the dozen film...
Jurassic World Dominion | Review
This World Is Not Enough: Trevorrow Goes Through the Motions in Extinction Level Event
It’s neither the first nor the last time a toxic commingling...
Kino Lorber Move to Mounia Akl’s Costa Brava, Lebanon
Mounia Akl's Venice/Toronto preemed Costa Brava, Lebanon has found a home with the Kino Lorber folks. THR reports that the distrib have already set...
Dekanalog Lands Fest Faves in “Streetwise”, “Anatolian Leopard” & Smoczynska’s “Fugue”
Like as if they were digging for that gem in a vinyl shop, Deadline reports that Dekanalog have lassoed three sturdy titles from film...
Murder Anyone? François Ozon’s Period Picture “Madeleine” Set for 2023 Release
Isabelle Huppert, Dany Boon, Fabrice Luchini, André Dussollier with young theps Rebecca Marder and Nadia Tereszkiewicz (who is coming from a Cannes Film Fest...
Lost Illusions | Review
F is for Fake: Giannoli Highlights Prescience in Adaptation of Balzac Classic
The erosion of romanticism and idealism is at the core of Honore de...
Fatima’s Faith: Hafsia Herzi Lines Up “La Petite Dernière” for 2023
Hafsia Herzi will be setting her sights on her third outing as early as next year. We've known Herzi as the face of Abdellatif Kechiche's...
Benediction | Review
Words of War: Davies Recuperates Another Poet in Impressionistic Biopic
Following the critical success of his masterful portrait of Emily Dickinson in A Quiet Passion...
Crimes of the Future | Review
Origin of the Neo-Species: Cronenberg Crafts a Discourse on Human Evolution
Whatever the evolution happening in the world of David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future,...
Dashcam | Review
Arrhythmia of the Night: Savage Triumphs with Delightfully Bizarre Socio-Horror
There’s an art to successful presentations of unlikeable characters, further complicated when a protagonist is...
After Blue (Dirty Paradise) | Review
Taste of a Toxic Paradise: Mandico Casts a Dark Spell with Broody Sci-Fi
Through a variety of short films, music videos (including several for M83),...
Top Gun: Maverick | Review
Take My Guilt Away: Kosinski Avoids Cruise Control in Enjoyable Action Sequel
Against all odds, especially considering how unnecessary a sequel seems to be...
Masquerade | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: Bedos Takes the Grift Shift in French Riviera Crime Caper
For a film opening with W. Somerset Maugham’s line, “The French Riviera...
Un petit frère (Mother and Son) | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
Life in Rouen: Serraille Stacks Perspectives in Muted Tale of Immigration and Identity
After taking home the Camera d’Or for her 2017 feature Jeune Femme,...
Cannes Critics’ Panel: Lukas Dhont’s Close Edges Out Crimes of the Future as Best Rated Film in 2022
It will have been a nail-biting final vote that determined the official top film among our 2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel. Lukas Dhont's Close finishes...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Lukas Dhont’s Close Heavy Favorite to Win the Palme d’Or
Twelve of our twenty critics believe that Lukas Dhont's Close will walk away with the Palme d'Or this evening. Leila's Brothers places second on...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 11 – Léonor Serraille’s Mother and Son (Un petit frère)
And the last film in competition is another sophomore feature film. Léonor Serraille of course won the Camera d'Or for Jeune Femme (aka Montparnasse...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10 – Lukas Dhont’s Close
His Un Certain Regard selected debut film Girl claimed the Camera d’Or, FIPRESCI Prize, Un Certain Regard Jury Award for Best Performance, and the...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 11 – Kelly Reichardt’s Showing Up
Feted on the Croisette this year - receiving the Carrosse d'Or award from the Directors' Fortnight, Kelly Reichardt had to wait until the last...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10 – Hirokazu Kore-Eda’s Broker
A previous Palme d'Or winner (Shoplifters), Broker becomes Hirokazu Kore-Eda's eighth trip to Cannes - this follows Distance (2001), Nobody Knows (2004), Air Doll...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10 – Albert Serra’s Pacifiction
Another filmmaker who was invited to his first Palme d'Or race, Albert Serra has been to the Croisette first in the Directors' Fortnight with...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Claire Denis’ Stars At Noon
Could Claire Denis pull a rare two film in two back to back film festival (Berlinale-Cannes) double win a la Ryusuke Hamaguchi? As we...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Saeed Roustayi’s Leila’s Brothers
One of the two Iranian entries at this year's Cannes competition, this is Saeed Roustayi's first time. Starring Taraneh Alidoosti, Saeed Poursamimi, Navid Mohammadzadeh,...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8 – Mario Martone’s Nostalgia
Much more of a Venice Film Festival invited guest, Nostalgia becomes Mario Martone's second trip to the Palme comp after 1995's L'Amore Molesto. He...
Leila’s Brothers | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
How to Beat the High Cost of Living: Roustayi Ponders Poverty in Familial Melodrama
“Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8 – Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne’s Tori et Lokita
For their ninth feature film in competition, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne once again turn to non-actors to give their text fresh new faces for...
La Jauría | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
Beasts in the Jungle: Pulido Suffers the Children in Sinister Debut
At the bizarre intersection of a walkabout and a penal colony is La Jauría...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7- David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future
This year's Canadian entry has a touch of Greece in it as David Cronenberg shot his latest film with a whiff of the Aegean...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7- Park Chan-Wook’s Decision to Leave
Now that moved the move into television (The Little Drummer Girl and the forthcoming The Sympathizer), Park Chan-wook finally returns to Cannes with Decision...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6 – Valeria Bruni‑Tedeschi’s Les Amandiers (aka Forever Young)
A decade after presenting A Castle in Italy (2013), Valeria Bruni‑Tedeschi returns to the competition with Les Amandiers (Forever Young). Starring Louis Garrel as Patrice...
Les Amandiers (Forever Young) | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
Mixed Nuts: Tedeschi Returns to Acting School in Charming, Vigorous Homage
For her fifth narrative feature, the indefatigable Valeria Bruni Tedeschi conjures a nostalgic reunion...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6- Ali Abbasi’s Holy Spider
The Un Certain Regard section winner with his second film for the 2018 programme with Border, Ali Abbasi makes his first journey into the...
Don Juan | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
A Woman is a Woman: Bozon Invokes the Eternal Seducer in Eccentric Musical
Much like Casanova, the name Don Juan has become a euphemism for...
Nos Cérémonies (Summer Scars) | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
Summertime Sadness: Reith Explores Brotherly Love with Ominous Magical Realism
It’s a formulation as old as storytelling, two men whose love for one another is...
Continental Drift (South) | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
Conventional Liaisons: Baier Leans into the Comedy of Crisis Through Familial Rift
Swiss director Lionel Baier completes the third section of an intended four part...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5 – Cristian Mungiu’s R.M.N.
Winner of the Palme d’Or in 2007 field for 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days and double prize take in 2012 for Beyond...
Men | Review
Take Back the Fright: Garland Returns with Cryptic Fable on Trenchant Misogyny
The tagline for George Cukor’s 1939 classic The Women, which notably featured...
Marcel! | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
Dog Gone: Trinca Debuts Pleasant Semi-autobiographical Dramedy
“I’m devoted to divination,” sniffs a haughty Alba Rohrwacher as a self-centered mother in Jasmine Trinca’s directorial debut,...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5 – Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness
With perhaps far more time in post than the other films vying for the Palme this year, Ruben Östlund goes off the deep end...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4 – Arnaud Desplechin’s Brother and Sister
After seeing his last film (Deception) premiere in the Cannes Premiere section last year, Arnaud Desplechin returns to the competition section once again with...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4 – Tarik Saleh’s Boy from Heaven
Now at the five feature film mark, Swedish filmmaker Tarik Saleh reunites with his The Nile Hilton Incident (2017) star a scruffy Fares Fares...
Frère et soeur (Brother and Sister) | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
I’m Not One of Your Fans: Desplechin Delivers Camp Classic with Failed Melodrama
No one depicted in Frère et soeur (Brother and Sister), the latest...
Goutte d’Or (Son of Ramses) | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
Sun of a Gun: Cogitore Returns with Cryptic Drama on Violence, Exploitation
France’s Clément Cogitore is clearly a fan of the mysterious and inexplicable sinews...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3 – Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO
Making his eighth trip to Cannes (his most latest visit was in the Directors' Fortnight with 2018's Four Nights With Anna), and in the...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3 – James Gray’s Armageddon Time
James Gray makes a fifth trip to the Palme d'Or competition with Armageddon Time - his eighth feature film. Following The Yards (2000), We...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2 – Charlotte Vandermeersch & Felix Van Groeningen’s The Eight Mountains
Among the last batch of entries for the festival, the filmmaker behind 2004 debut Steve+Sky, 2009’s The Misfortunates (Directors’ Fortnight selection) and 2012’s The...
The Woodcutter Story | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
One Flew Over the Cuckold’s Nest: Myllylahti Contends Hope Floats in Black Comedy
By their nature, fables provide fanciful cinematic avenues of metaphorical expression as...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2 – Kirill Serebrennikov’s Tchaikovsky’s Wife
The 2022 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or competition begins with Kirill Serebrennikov's Tchaikovsky's Wife -- his fourth consecutive feature to premiere at the Cannes...
