Tag: top-stories
2024 Venice Gap-Financing Market: Ulrike Ottinger, Aga Woszczyńska, Shahrbanoo Sadat, Erige Sehiri & Theo Court Among Selected Projects
The projects for the upcoming Venice Gap-Financing Market have been unveiled (27 feature-length fiction) and there'll be several listed here projects that we'll discuss...
Last Summer (L’Été dernier) | Review
One Deadly Summer: Breillat Agitates Another Sexual Taboo
Suddenly, last summer, a successful lawyer who has it all risks throwing her life away with an...
2024 Eurimages: Visar Morina, Hlynur Pálmason, Nadav Lapid, Valentyn Vasyanovych & Dardennes Receive Support
The results of the second Eurimages Project Evaluation Session for 2024 have just been announced and we are finding some major projects in the...
Interview: Léa Drucker – Last Summer (L’été dernier)
She was pulled from obscurity (or non-retirement since her last feature was 2013's Abuse of Weakness) when Saïd Ben Saïd optioned the rights to...
20,000 Species of Bees | Review
The Secret Life of Bees: Solaguren’s Warm Debut Explores the Communal Dictation of Gender Identity
Our relationship to our gender and sexual identities is...
The Vourdalak | Review
Love in the Blood: Beau Resurrects Russian Vampire Clan in Eccentric Genre Throwback
Chuck Palahniuk wrote it best, referencing an ‘old saying’ in his 1996...
Interview: Ariane Louis-Seize – Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
After being feted on the Lido (winner of the Director's Award in the Giornate degli Autori section - we were there) and being showcased...
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person | Review
Sentimental Succubus: Louis-Seize Finds Love is All Consuming in Vampire Rom-Com
“Love means never having to say you’re sorry” read the tagline for the quintessential...
Green Border | Review
The Good Pole: Holland’s Humanitarian Drama a Steady Drizzle of Misery Porn
The difference between an exploitation vs. a social issue film can sometimes be...
Kinds of Kindness | Review
Bounds of Boundaries: Lanthimos Entertains Himself with Bizarre Triptych
It’s safe to say Yorgos Lanthimos has undoubtedly entered the oblivious, self-indulgent era of his career...
Thelma | Review
Grandma Scamma: Margolin Steals a Win with Squibb
Although there’s a prodigious sub-genre of kooky comedies featuring elderly resilient women (though more often in European...
Interview: Sofia Alaoui – Animalia
When the balance of the universe is disturbed, the hierarchy of nature's totem can be reconfigured. If the earth's creatures are more closely attuned...
Under Communist Rule: Cristi Puiu’s “La Saint-André des loups” Set for Spring Shoot
Pre-pandemic, Romanian filmmaker Cristi Puiu had been working on "Hora staccato," set in May 1950 Bucharest, where police rounded up dignitaries and imprisoned them....
Seed of Doubt: Noémie Merlant & Léa Drucker Topline Laura Wandel’s “L’intérêt d’Adam”
Among the most anticipated sophomore features we'll already look forward to for the 2025 campaign received a Cannes blurb update in the Le film...
Girlhood, Interrupted: Carolina Cavalli Set to Trace “The Kidnapping of Arabella”
After grabbing the international film festival circuit by storm with her directorial debut in Amanda (2022 Venice, TIFF) and to an extent Babak Jalali's...
Firebrand | Review
One Survived: Ainouz Attempts to Give a Queen Her Due
The Tudor era has maintained public fascination for the past five hundred years, a linchpin...
2024 Sundance Institute Producers Lab: Tara Sheffer (Rubber Hut) & Mireia Vilanova (Silence Sometimes) Selected
The Sundance Institute today announced the 10 producers selected to participate in its annual Producers Lab and we find a 5/5 split. Fellows in...
Laying Brick: Robin Campillo to Shoot “Enzo” this Month
The passing of the torch was confirmed around Cannes, and rather than what might have been an August shoot, Les Films de Pierre producer...
Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything | Review
Goodbye, First Love: Atef Explores Pangs of Passion Amidst Detached Reunification
For her sixth feature film, Germany’s Emily Atef returns to themes of circumstance...
Banel & Adama | Review
A Place in the Sun: Sy’s Fascinating Debut on Ruinous Social Obligations
It takes a village…to put you in your place, or so it...
Death Proof: Stepanyan Certifies Camille Cottin & Zar Amir Ebrahimi for Fiction Debut
Earlier today, Cineuropa's Fabien Lemercier revealed an alluring-sounding project that we'll be keeping a close eye on. Heading into production this week, Armenia-born, Lebanese...
Come Together at the Seams: Music Box Films Lands Monica Sorelle’s Mountains
Beyond Harmony Korine, the Florida film community has produced some solid American indie cinema. Last year, we witnessed this through a family portrait that...
2024 Cannes Film Festival Winners – Un Certain Regard [Video]
The Un Certain Regard jury of five in Xavier Dolan, Maïmouna Doucouré, Asmae El Moudir, Vicky Krieps, and Todd McCarthy offered a total of...
2024 Cannes Film Festival Winners – Competition [Video]
The jury of Greta Gerwig, filmmakers J. A. Bayona, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Nadine Labaki, acting folks Eva Green, Omar Sy, Lily Gladstone and Pierfrancesco Favino...
Slaughterhouse-Two: Asmae El Moudir’s Moving into Rabat for “Holy Cow”
Not to be confused with Louise Courvoisier's excellent feature debut which just received its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in the Un...
2024 Cannes Film Festival – Checklist of Our Reviews
IONCINEMA.com's Chief Film Critic Nicholas Bell reviewed the entire competition and more. Here is a comprehensive guide to all the feature films across all...
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...
The Most Precious Of Cargoes | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
The Zone of Disinterest: Hazanavicius Reanimates the Holocaust in Moral Fable
What’s most interesting about director Michel Hazanavicius are his valiant attempts at dabbling in...
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga | Review
Woman Thou Art Loosed: Miller Wades into the Wasteland
In all likelihood, George Miller presumably will be closing out his filmography the same way it...
2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig Tops Our Grid
And finally, it came down to the wire for not one, but two films that disrupted what had been the top-ranked film among our...
Michel Hazanavicius’ The Most Precious of Cargoes – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 11
The only animated film in the competition, Michel Hazanavicius has been a favorite of the festival landing several competition berths beginning with 2011’s The...
Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 11
The narrative behind Mohammad Rasoulof's journey to the Cannes competition (his first) will be talked about for a long time. Escaping his homeland (and...
Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10
It's been a solid three decades since Shaji N Karun's Swaham competed for Palme in 1994, making this a significant moment for Indian auteur...
Gilles Lellouche’s Beating Hearts – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10
The popular French actor working in just about every film genre has been on the Croisette on a couple of occasions but as a...
L’amour Ouf (Beating Hearts) | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Thief of Hearts: Lellouche’s Sprawling Romance Has Arrhythmia
A common occurrence for actors moonlighting as directors is not knowing how to hone a focus, crafting...
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...
Motel Destino | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
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...
Miguel Gomes’ Grand Tour – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9
I still recall when Miguel Gomes took over the Directors' Fortnight section with not one, but three films for the The Arabian Nights trilogy (Volume...
Paolo Sorrentino’s Parthenope – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8
If he has the option between the Croisette or the Lido, Paolo Sorrentino is going to... France. His Cannes journey began with 2004’s The...
Christophe Honoré’s Marcello Mio – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8
Having sprinkled his films in the competition section twice before with Les chansons d’amour (2007) and Sorry Angel (2018), Christophe Honoré has also populated...
Sean Baker’s Anora – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8
Returning to the official competition for a second time, this is American indie filmmaker Sean Baker's third consecutive trip to Cannes after The Florida...
Animale | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Toro Toro Toro: Amamra Grabs the Bull By the Horns in Transformative Role
For those who champion the bull in Spain's electrifying yet antiquated tradition...
David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7
In his late career resurgence with Crimes of the Future having been showcased in the comp in 2022, David Cronenberg makes his entrance with...
Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7
Making it three features in a row that'll have premiered on the Croisette, Iranian-Danish filmmaker Ali Abbasi saw his sophomore feature Border play like...
East of Noon | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Noon Gloom: Elkoussy Mounts Shadowy, Allegorical Fantasy
An industrial wasteland outside of a specific time or place provides the backdrop for Hala Elkoussy’s ingenious, but...
Limonov: The Ballad | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Wild at Heart: Serebrennikov Oversimplifies Odyssey of Soviet Dissident
If one were to dilute a Molotov cocktail enough to make its destructive capabilities null and...
Miséricorde | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Kiss Me or Kill Me: Guiraudie Stirs a Sinister Solace in the Backwoods
Alain Guiraudie returns to the ruinous climes of rural malcontentedness with his...
Block Pass (La Pampa) | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Will You Be My Ride or Die?: Chevrollier Ramps Up the Chaos in Portrait of Sons & Missing Fathers
Exploring themes of rebellion, shame, and...
The Other Way Around | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Breaking Up is Hard To Do: Trueba Reinvents Couple Goals
Gloriously reminding us that we are doomed to repeat the same existential mundane experiences, in...
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...
