Category: Cannes

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…

Prix d’interprétation féminine – Samantha Eggar Prix d’interprétation masculine – Terrance Stamp When The Collector opens, with the young Englishman catching a butterfly in a…

Prix d’interprétation masculine – Giancarlo Giannini Lina Wertmüller might have a German name, but she is an unsung heroine of Italian cinema. The writer and…

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…

Prix d’interprétation féminine – Kirsten Dunst The laboring endurance, that feeling of being weighed down or held back, to a point of almost idyllic catatonia,…

This may be a personal issue, but there’s something about Andrea Arnold‘s brand of wallowing realism that never quite brings a point to its misery….

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…

Between the Annettes, Benedettas, and French Dispatches of the world, Cannes is also home to some surprises. Screening out of competition, and at Critics Week,…

Just hours ago, on an early June morning in Paris, Thierry Frémaux and Pierre Lescure announced the films coming our way at the 74th Festival…

It is impossible for me to keep from bringing a spiritual mindset to the movie watching experience. I echo Roger Ebert in seeing films as…

It’s Wednesday 3rd June. And the official line-up for the 73rd Festival de Cannes, has been revealed, live from the UGC Normandie, Paris. As it…

Prix d’interprétation féminine – Irène Jacob Prix du Jury Œcuménique FIPRESCI Prix In one of the later scenes of Krzysztof Kieślowski‘s dazzling, intoxicating The Double…

Caméra d’Or – Tran Anh Hung Prix de la jeunesse – Tran Anh Hung The year 1993, like many others too, has movie experiences to…

A multi-faceted, poetically haunting tale, Atlantics will leave its audience longing for more of its striking, absorbing aesthetics.