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The Macaluso Sisters | Review
Sister Acts: Dante Wallows in Tragedy Defined Sisterhood
Director Emma Dante spins a melancholic web of familial woe following five women defined by tragic circumstances...
Never Gonna Snow Again | Review
Intimate Strangers: Szumowska & Englert Explore Despondency & Isolation
Our innate capacity for constructing the vehicles of our own alienation and ennui inform the backdrop...
Mama Weed | Review
Selective Affinities: High-Fives for Huppert & Hannelore Cayre in Vivacious French Neo-noir
Often described as cold, icy, impassive, and inscrutable, the performances of Isabelle Huppert,...
Annette | Review
Henry Fool: Music & Misogyny Explored in Glossy Return of Carax
Like nearly all of Leos Carax’s films over the past thirty years (of which...
Dramarama [Video Review]
Great Expectations: Wysocki’s Debut a Loving Homage to the Dog Days of Highschool
For those well-versed in indie queer cinema, a major template and through...
2021 Giornate degli Autori: Plenty of First Features Plus Antoine Barraud, Iván Fund & Aly Muritiba
And finally it's the Giornate degli Autori folks headed by topper Gaia Furrer that have unveiled their sidebar selections. Of the ten feature films...
TIFF 2021: Bouli Lanners, Ho Wi Ding, Nathalie Biancheri, Agustina San Martín & Stephen Karam to World Preem in Toronto
Cherry picking the better titles from Cannes (winning titles such as Murina, Unclenching The Fists) and Venice, today TIFF programmers beefed up their Special...
2021 Venice Film Festival: Blonde is MIA, Franco’s Sundown, Vasyanovych’s Reflection, Frammartino’s The Hole, Larrain’s Spencer in COMP
While Netflix is present Andrew Dominik's Blonde and Claire Denis' Fire is nowhere to be found, the official selection for the 2021 edition of...
2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Hamaguchi’s “Drive My Car” is Tops
The Japanese drama based on the short story of the same name by Haruki Murakami landed on the top spot of IONCINEMA.com's 2021 Cannes...
2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 11 – Joachim Lafosse’s The Restless
For the final film in competition we get a piece of Belgium with Joachim Lafosse’s very first competition film offering. He has been on...
2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 11 – Justin Kurzel’s Nitram
His only other comp offering was 2015's Macbeth, but his debut film (we were there) was Snowtown (later known as The Snowtown Murders). There...
2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10 – Nabil Ayouch’s Casablanca Beats
Among the surprise selections for the Cannes Competition line-up, Nabil Ayouch's Casablanca Beats (known in French as Haut et fort), and before that it...
2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10 – Bruno Dumont’s France
A Cannes Film Festival staple, Bruno Dumont returns to the competition for a fourth time with a media satire that was clearly for acquired...
2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10 – Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria
Offering the Croisette not one but two films this year -- The Year of the Everlasting Storm is a rare anthology film that is...
2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Jacques Audiard’s Les Olympiades
Audiard established himself in Cannes with Regarde Les Hommes Tomber in the Critics’ Week, and then he saw 1996’s Un héros très discret land...
2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Ildiko Enyedi’s The Story of My Wife
A first time in comp birth for the Hungarian filmmaker, this is Ildikó Enyedi's first visit back to Cannes since the landed a spot...
2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Sean Baker’s Red Rocket
Entering the competition for the very first time (this is Sean Baker's second official visit on the Croisette with The Florida Project premiering in...
2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8 – Julia Ducournau’s Titane
Julia Ducournau landed in the 2016 edition of Critic's Week section with her debut film Raw (she previously had shown her short Junior as...
2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8 – Asghar Farhadi’s A Hero
After opening the competition in 2018 with Everybody Knows, Asghar Farhadi truly is in a return to form mode with the set in Iran...
A Hero | 2021 Cannes Film Festival Review
Purse First: Farhadi Brings Agony and Ecstasy in Latest Social Drama
Robert Burns’ eternal passage, cribbed by Steinbeck, “the best laid schemes o’ mice and...
2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7 – Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch
He opened the 2012 edition of the Cannes Film Festival with Moonrise Kingdom and he returns for a second year in a row (The...
2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7 – Kirill Serebrennikov’s Petrov’s Flu
Following Un Certain Regard preemed The Student and Leto in 2018, Kirill Serebrennikov returns to the competition with the dense Petrov's Flu. Unfortunately he...
Medusa | 2021 Cannes Film Festival Review
O Kill, All Ye Faithful: Da Silveira Kills the Teen Dream in Capricious Sophomore Film
If there’s anything for certain in approaching Medusa, the extravagantly...
2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6 – Mia Hansen-Løve’s Bergman Island
With Father of My Children (2009) as her only shoring up in Cannes, Mia Hansen-Løve who is seven features in lands in the Main...
2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6 – Nanni Moretti’s Three Floors
Enlisting a huge ensemble cast, Tre Piani was already identified as a Cannes entry last year. Following in the footsteps of the agreeable 2015...
2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6 – Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car
What an extraordinary year for Ryûsuke Hamaguchi. Earlier in 2021, he was at the Berlinale with Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (read our Nicholas Bell's...
Bruno Reidal, Confession of a Murderer | 2021 Cannes Film Festival Review
The Killer Inside Me: Le Port Mines the Makings of a Murderer in Detached True Crime Sketch
Director Vincent Le Port revisits a chilling murder...
La Fracture | 2021 Cannes Film Festival Review
Conqueror Worms: Corsini Juggles Metaphors in Strangely Asymmetrical Social Issue Film
Director Catherine Corsini metastasizes an ensemble exercise for her eleventh feature, La Fracture, a...
2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5 – Sean Penn’s Flag Day
He was added "last minute" during the press conference for the 2021 Palme d'Or line-up and clearly there is something that Thierry appreciates in...
2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5 – Juho Kuosmanen’s Compartment No. 6
His first feature film, The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki competed in the Un Certain Regard section in 2016 and in...
Returning to Reims (Fragments) | 2021 Cannes Film Festival Review
Blue is the Warmest Collar: Periot’s Projects a Sublime Visualization of Potent Memoir
For his third feature length documentary, Jean-Gabriel Périot tackles the celebrated 2009...
2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4 – Catherine Corsini’s La Fracture
Her second entry into the comp section (exactly two decades ago with La Repetition) and three film in all with Three Worlds having premiered...
2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4 – Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta
Paul Verhoeven's third entry into the comp after 1992’s Basic Instinct and 2016's Elle was the long awaited Benedetta (hip surgery followed by the...
The Employer and the Employee | 2021 Cannes Film Festival Review
Bargaining Basement: Zas Presents a Touch of Caste in Free Market Melodrama
The working class do not go to heaven in Manuel Nieto Zas’ third...
Softie (Petite nature) | 2021 Cannes Film Festival Review
Sharp Shock to Your Soft Side: Theis Mines the Uncomfortable Realities of Sexuality
In the one-hundred-and-twenty-five years since the detrimental trials of Oscar Wilde and...
2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3 – Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person In The World
His second film in the Palme d'Or comp, Joachim Trier's The Worst Person In The World (aka Verdens verste menneske or in French as...
2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3 – Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s Lingui
If he doesn't go to Venice (he preemed Bye-bye Africa and Daratt, Dry Season there), he'd certainly be headed to the Croisette with this...
Tom Medina | 2021 Cannes Film Festival Review
The Man Without a Country: Gatlif Explores the Tribulations of Redemption in Oblique Character Study
French-Algerian director Tony Gatlif remains something of a European anomaly...
The Hill Where the Lionesses Roar | 2021 Cannes Film Festival Review
Hear Them Roar: Bajrami Shouts an Outcry on Female Subjugation
Luàna Bajrami, who appeared as the maid in Celina Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on...
2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2 – François Ozon’s Everything Went Fine
The only filmmaker to claim that he was at a covid edition (last year's Summer of '85) followed a post-pandemic edition Tout S’est Bien...
2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2 – Nadav Lapid’s Ahed’s Knee
He saw his second feature (The Kindergarten Teacher) play at the Critics Week (and be adapted into a U.S remake shortly after) certainly jury...
2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 1 – Leos Carax’s Annette
He thrusted onto the film scene with Boy Meets Girl (1984), Mauvais Sang (1986) and The Lovers on the Bridge (1991) but it was...
Live from Cannes: 2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel – Meet the Jury!
In any normal year making the trip to the mecca of the film festival circuit came with hurdles but nothing like what
we are experiencing...
Video Interview: Pascal Plante – Nadia, Butterfly | Cannes 2020 Label
Receiving that phone call that you've been accepted into the Cannes Film Festival surely never gets old but what if your film was selected...
A Tale of Ordinary Madness: Bravo Delivers a Cinematic Unicorn – Zola [Video Review]
A Tale of Ordinary Madness: Bravo Delivers a Cinematic Unicorn
Cinematic innovators are few and far between, but a blazing hot anomaly is revealed in...
Video Interview: Janicza Bravo – Zola
We could label Janicza Bravo's sophomore feature as a road-trip misadventure and about getting a raw deal in a set number of twitter character...
Video Interview: Jeanne Leblanc – Our Own (Les nôtres)
Insular and close-knit communities are great at keeping unwanted problems (or people) at bay, but want happens when social woes mushroom from within? Passive...
Video Interview: Fabrice du Welz – Adoration
A philosopher once said that despair can never be dissolved through escape, but by observing it. There isn't much in terms of reprieve Locarno...
All These Sons | 2021 Tribeca Film Festival Review
Swerve & Protect: Liu/Altman Display Resilience at the Core
Bing Liu and Joshua Altman’s All These Sons is a rousing, hauntingly powerful tableau about the...
Genus, Pan | Review
Three Amigos: Diaz Explores Featherless Bipeds in Latest Leisurely Expose on Baseness
Running time is always a point of contention when it comes the cinema...
