Author: Christer Emanuelsson
Film Review: Alma Viva (2022)
Alma Viva is the debut feature of Cristèle Alves Meira. Like every summer, little Salomé returns to her family village nestled in the Portuguese mountains…
Festival de Cannes Review: Crimes of the Future (2022)
Crimes of the Future was the name of a short David Cronenberg made in 1970. The inspiration for the title came from Henning Carlsen’s classic…
Festival de Cannes Review: Triangle of Sadness (2022)
Triangle of Sadness is Ruben Östlund’s sixth feature to date and, by far, his most expensive. It is also his weakest work thus far, and I…
Festival de Cannes Opening Film Review: Final Cut (2022)
As I mentioned in my text about Annette, the opening film at the Cannes Film Festival is generally nothing to write home about. This year’s opener was the…
Film Review: Pleasure (2021)
Pleasure is the first feature by Ninja Thyberg, following the eponymous short seen in 2013. Bella (née Linnéa) leaves her small, dreary Swedish town to…
Festival de Cannes Review: Clara Sola (Nathalie Álvarez Mesén)
Clara Sola is the debut feature of the Costa Rican-Swedish director Nathalie Álvarez Mesén. It was screened in the Quinzaine de Réalisateur section and is…
Festival de Cannes Review: Robuste (Constance Meyer)
Robuste, or Robust as it’s called in English, with an untranslatable pun, was the opening film of Semaine de la Critique in this year’s Cannes…
Festival de Cannes Review: Jane par Charlotte (Charlotte Gainsbourg)
When Jaques Rivette made Love On the Ground in 1984 he said that one of the best reasons for making films is being able to…
Festival de Cannes Review: Annette (Leos Carax)
So May We Start? The opening film of this year’s Cannes Film Festival was Annette, directed by Leos Carax and written and scored by Sparks. It is…
1988 in Film: Krótki film o zabijaniu (A Short Film About Killing)
A Short Film About Killing opened in Poland in March 1988. Two months later, it played in competition in Cannes, where it won the Jury…
The Two sides of La Double Vie de Véronique
La Double Vie de Véronique or Podwójne życie Weroniki, as it’s called with an untranslatable pun, was released on this day, 30 years ago. It was the first…
Review: Director’s Cut
Adam Rifkin is a director whose most interesting film, so far, might be Look (2007), where the action is largely captured by security cameras. Penn Jillette from…
The Round-Up (Miklós Jancsó)
There was a time when I was young and approving. In the late eighties, I visited Hungary frequently, and I often socialised with cinephiles and…
Festival de Cannes: Mon Oncle d’Amerique (1980)
In 1977 Alain Resnais released his first film in English called Providence. One of the objectives of that film was to conquer the Anglo-Saxon market….
