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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Though much of the film is immaculate, the sum total lacks an emotional weight to lift the biography off the canvas.
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Olivier Dahan is inarguably a genius. He is also, perhaps less clearly, a madman. I was expecting to offer a quick reaction to Grace of Monaco, but the film defied my urge to a quick, clean reaction. It is glorious, magical, inspired… and missing… something. But I have a powerful urge to revisit it to try to get a better handle on it.
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I have long been of the opinion that Cannes is an indulgence to US press. Starting my third year covering the festival, I have to say, nothing’s changed that opinion. But like Telluride, it’s a lovely indulgence. It’s the most civil film festival of the biggies. The schedule is loaded, but manageable. The town is…
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The last in a series of snapshots outlining the nineteen directors in the 67th Palme d’Or Competition.
Read the full article »Countdown To Cannes: Damián Szifron
The penultimate in a series of snapshots outlining the nineteen directors in the 67th Palme d’Or Competition.
Read the full article »Countdown to Cannes: Alice Rohrwacher
The fifteenth in a series of snapshots outlining the nineteen directors in the 67th Palme d’Or Competition.
Read the full article »Countdown To Cannes: Abderrahmane Sissako
The fourteenth in a series of snapshots outlining the nineteen directors in the 67th Palme d’Or Competition.
Read the full article »Countdown To Cannes: Andrey Zvyagintsev
The thirteenth in a series of snapshots outlining the nineteen directors in the 67th Palme d’Or Competition.
Read the full article »Countdown To Cannes: Bertrand Bonello
The twelfth in a series of snapshots outlining the nineteen directors in the 67th Palme d’Or Competition.
Read the full article »Countdown To Cannes: Jean-Pierre And Luc Dardenne
The eleventh in a series of snapshots outlining the nineteen directors in the 67th Palme d’Or Competition.
Read the full article »Countdown To Cannes: Jean-Luc Godard
The tenth in a series of snapshots outlining the nineteen directors in the 67th Palme d’Or Competition.
Read the full article »Countdown To Cannes: Michel Hazanavicius
The ninth in a series of snapshots outlining the nineteen directors in the 67th Palme d’Or Competition.
Read the full article »Countdown To Cannes: Ken Loach
The eighth in a series of snapshots outlining the nineteen directors in the 67th Palme d’Or Competition.
Read the full article »Countdown To Cannes: Naomi Kawase
The seventh in a series of snapshots outlining the nineteen directors in the 67th Palme d’Or Competition.
Read the full article »Countdown To Cannes: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
The sixth in a series of snapshots outlining the nineteen directors in the 67th Palme d’Or Competition.
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The fifth in a series of snapshots outlining the nineteen directors in the 67th Palme d’Or Competition.
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