‘La Chimera’ review: Alice Rohwacher’s most accomplished work to date digs into life, love, and grave-robbing | Cannes
The concept of a chimera, however colloquialized, still remains a bit too abstract to pin down. If one approaches Alice Rohrwacher’s fourth feature, La Chimera,... Read More
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‘Last Summer’ review: Catherine Breillat grounds her provocative romance with truth and a staggering performance from Léa Drucker | Cannes
For her first feature film in over 10 years, Catherine Breillat made the surprising choice of adapting Queen of Hearts, May El Toukhy’s Danish provocative... Read More
‘The Pot Au Feu’ review: Trần Anh Hùng offers a feast for the eyes but is missing a key ingredient | Cannes
Have you ever cried when you tasted something for the first time? In The Pot Au Feu, the most mouth-watering edition to this year’s Cannes... Read More
‘Banel & Adama’ review: An imperfect yet visually stunning directorial debut from Ramata-Toulaye SY | Cannes
From northern Senegal and director Ramata-Toulaye SY comes one of the most visually stunning films out of the Cannes lineup this year: Banel & Adama.... Read More
‘Kadib Abyad (The Mother of All Lies)’ review: Asmae El Moudir stunningly recreates a buried Moroccan past | Cannes
Over the last few years, a strong ascension of Moroccan cinema started taking shape on an international scale, with the effective participation of major fresh... Read More
‘Asteroid City’ review: Wes Anderson’s homage to Steven Spielberg is among his most meta and most melancholic | Cannes
With an explosion of pastel colours, precise camera moves and a whimsical script, Asteroid City is Wes Anderson operating at his best, still doing his... Read More
‘Firebrand’ review: Karim Aïnouz doesn’t give much room for Alicia Vikander’s rebellious queen and Jude Law’s corpulent king to subvert expectation | Cannes
King Henry VIII’s last wife steps into the forefront in Firebrand, Karim Aïnouz’s English-language debut. Alicia Vikander stars as the quietly rebellious Catherine Parr, Queen... Read More
‘Club Zero’ review: Jessica Hausner nails the absurdist comedy but fails to go deeper | Cannes
Jessica Hausner’s career launched in Cannes when her film school project Inter-View, figured among the palmares of the Cinefondation competition in 1999. Over the years,... Read More
‘Fallen Leaves’ review: Love wins in Aki Kaurismäki’s tender tragicomedy of the working class that finds him at his romantic best | Cannes
A title as poetic as Fallen Leaves entirely suits the fourth installment of Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki’s working-class series, which began with Shadows in Paradise,... Read More
‘How to Have Sex’ review: Molly Manning Walker’s sensational, high-energy debut an equally urgent cautionary tale of consent | Cannes
If asked to describe How to Have Sex in one word, the answer, however strange, comes easily in the form of a place: an airport.... Read More
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