Cannes Review: Gaya Jiji’s glacially paced tale of sexual repression ‘My Favorite Fabric’
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] Gaya Jiji’s directorial debut MY FAVORITE FABRIC is an undercooked, lacking melodrama that takes points for being one of the rare... Read More
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Cannes Review: Zhao Tao is a Best Actress Contender in ‘Ash is Purest White’ from Jia Zhang-ke
One of the most commercial and straightforward films of his career, Jia Zhang-ke’s ASH IS PUREST WHITE is accessible but not superficial, entertaining but never... Read More
Cannes Review: ‘Border,’ Ali Abbasi’s thrilling supernatural gothic romance
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] Ali Abbasi creates the grimmest of faerie tales as two outcasts find love in a hopeless place in this wild, wonderful,... Read More
Cannes Review: Mads Mikkelsen burns up the screen in icy ‘Arctic’
Survival films can go either way: they can be engaging viewing experiences that expand their scope beyond their basic premise or can be slogs that... Read More
Cannes Review: Pawel Pawlikowski’s bleak and beautiful ‘Cold War’
Pawel Pawlikowski’s COLD WAR is one of those films that you can respect but not outright love. Beautifully made but far more slight and bleaker... Read More
Cannes Interview: Wanuri Kahiu on her film Rafiki and the future of African cinema
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] Rafiki director Wanuri Kahiu comes from a line of strong, forward-thinking women. Her mother, a doctor, was one of the first... Read More
Ryan Coogler Talk Highlights Importance of Visibility and the Business of Filmmaking
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] Ryan Coogler is the king. Of box office, that is. When his adaptation of the Marvel’s Black Panther comic book series... Read More
Cannes Review: Kirill Serebrennikov’s arthouse crowdpleaser ‘Leto’
Kirill Serebrennikov’s LETO is a tribute to music, dreams of youth and the power – and beauty of ambition. Despite a masterful and at times... Read More
Cannes Review: A.B. Shawky’s gripping and emotional debut ‘Yomeddine’
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] Rarely do debut features play in competition at Cannes. In fact, of the debut features that played in the festival’s most... Read More
Cannes Review: Wanuri Kahiu’s touching if familiar lesbian romance ‘Rafiki’
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] Kena, short for Makena (played by Samantha Mugatsia) lives in the Slopes district of Nairobi, Kenya with her at-home mom and... Read More
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