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Cannes Review: KILLING OF A SACRED DEER
Humanity is exactly what’s on the chopping block in a Yorgos Lanthimos film.
Read the full article »Cannes Reviews: REDOUBTABLE, 120 BPM
Beyond outlining just how much of an asshole Hazanavicius’ Godard is—including a stupid running joke that seems to suggest the man derives his snobbish power from his sunglasses, which he repeatedly breaks throughout the film—Redoubtable is little more than a series of regrettable decisions that began the moment Hazanavicius started his adaptation.
Read the full article »Cannes Review: THE SQUARE
The Square is an equilateral triangle—a film with three sharp, pointed edges and a very long ending that’s too rigid for it to turn a corner and assume its final shape. But as the follow-up to a film about the social contract, as well and the bystander effect, Östlund has made something hilarious, frustrating and very clever.
Read the full article »Cannes Reviews: Okja, Jupiter’s Moon
The yelling started as soon as Okja’s Netflix presentation card appeared, muddying the matter more. This attitude fuels the ongoing debate on the Croisette: Can Netflix films win Palmes d’Or? Should they? The argument being Cannes is a festival where cinema is sacred—that films should be seen on big screens, not on small ones
Read the full article »Cannes: The Daily Buzz – The Festival Runners Roundtable
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Read the full article »Cannes: The Daily Buzz – The Critics Roundtable
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Read the full article »Cannes: The Daily Buzz – IMDb’s Col Needham
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Read the full article »Cannes 67 Wrap-Up
Cannes 67 – c’est fini.
After dozens of screenings, predictions, and an endless series of queue debates, we have a Palme d’Or.
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Read the full article »Cannes Review: Clouds of Sils Maria
I kinda love Clouds of Sils Maria. At its best, it is a female version of My Dinner With Andre. At its weakest, it is still interesting. The premise is pretty basic.
Read the full article » 4 Comments »Cannes Competition Review: Leviathan
There’s never a scene where Kolya doesn’t have a myriad of issues weighing on his mind, and these are visible in Serebryakov’s pained, tired facial expressions and believable portrayal of alcoholism (to be sure, Leviathan is boozier than two or three Hong Sang-soo films combined).
Read the full article » 1 Comment »Cannes: The Daily Buzz – Hot Topics
Hot Topics Roundtable at Cannes Film Festival with Eric Kohn, Anne Thompson, Marian Masone, Alison Willmore, and Jordan Hoffman.
Read the full article »Cannes Topper Gilles Jacob On His Slow Fade
Cannes Topper Gilles Jacob On His Slow Fade
Read the full article »Cannes Un Certain Regard Review: Lost River
If Lost River is the film Ryan Gosling wanted to debut as his first film—and you only get one first film—then I’ll be the first to admit that I had him pegged (as an artist, anyway) as someone entirely different.
Read the full article »Cannes Review: The Salvation
Yeah, this film rocks.
Read the full article »Cannes Competition Review: Maps To The Stars
Because Bruce Wagner’s script calls for actors to do and say depraved things with a straight face, the film couldn’t have been made—in this current form, anyway—without Cronenberg’s history of directing violence and dissecting the psycho-bizarre.
Read the full article »Cannes Competition Review: Wild Tales
Argentine Szifrón, known for his career in comedy television, aims high with his biggest budget to date: Wild Tales intertwines six separate narratives, and the film is primarily successful in finding humor in its theme of ordinary people pushed to their limit.
Read the full article »Cannes Competition Review: The Captive
The blurring of truth and fiction is a fairly standard theme throughout the director’s filmography, and much of Egoyan’s career is recalled in The Captive.
Read the full article »Cannes Review: Mr. Turner
Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner is a movie about an artist who is past his moment of greatest glory. A biopic only in that it rests on a historic figure in art, this is not a film about Turner’s inspiration or his method or his history. It is about the other side of the mountain, the apex of which Turner reached before the first shot of this film.
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