Category: Cannes
7 Festival de Cannes Winners to Watch Right Now: Prix de la mise en scène (Best Director)
Bonjour from Cannes. Or bonjour to you all wishing you were in Cannes. The true festive season was meant to be upon as we traveled…
Festival de Cannes Review: Red Road (2006)
Red Road won the Jury Award at Cannes in 2006. Directed by Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank, American Honey), this is a tense and paranoid psychological…
Festival de Cannes: Pride (2014)
Queer Palm Award The Cannes Film Festival is, for lack of a better word, a little pretentious. Since 2010 the festival has awarded an award for…
Festival de Cannes: Pál Adrienn from Ágnes Koscis (2010)
Un Certain Regard FIPRESCI Award Four years after the release of Friss Levegö, Ágnes Koscis second film saw the light of day. Pál Adrienn premiered in the Un Certain Regard…
Festival de Cannes: Alternative Online Coverage at Filmotomy 12 – 23 May
With the Cannes Film Festival postponed until whoever knows when, here at Filmotomy we are going ahead with Cannes coverage as planned between 12-23 May….
Festival de Cannes: What Are We Waiting For in 2020?
“We want to be present in the autumn in order to play our part in the huge construction effort of rebuilding cinema.” says the Cannes…
Parasite Walks Away With the Palme d’Or: Cannes 2019
The 72nd edition of the festival wrapped up tonight with Bong-Joon Hu’s Parasite winning the Palme d’Or. Bong becomes the first Korean director to win…
Festival de Cannes Official Competition Prospectus – Sibyl
SIBYL Justine TRIET — FRANCE, BELGIUM — 100 minutes IN A NUTSHELL Sibyl (Virginie Efira), a psychotherapist, returns to her first passion: writing. Her latest patient…
Festival de Cannes Official Competition Prospectus – It Must Be Heaven
IT MUST BE HEAVEN Elia SULEIMAN — FRANCE — 97 minutes IN A NUTSHELL Elia Suleiman escapes from Palestine in the search of an alternative…
Festival de Cannes Official Competition Prospectus – Il Traditore / The Traitor
IL TRADITORE / THE TRAITOR Marco BELLOCCHIO — ITALY, FRANCE, GERMANY, BRAZIL — 145 minutes IN A NUTSHELL Marco Bellocchio’s Il Traditor follows Tommaso Buscetta the so called…
Festival de Cannes Official Competition Prospectus – Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo
MEKTOUB, MY LOVE: INTERMEZZO Abdellatif Kechiche — France — 240 minutes IN A NUTSHELL Sequel to Mektoub My Love: Canto Uno, sees a bunch of…
Festival de Cannes Official Competition Prospectus – Roubaix, une lumière / Oh Mercy!
ROUBAIX, UNE LUMIÈRE / OH MERCY! Arnaud DESPLECHIN — FRANCE — 119 minutes IN A NUTSHELL Based on a true story and the 2008 TV…
Festival de Cannes Official Competition Prospectus – Matthias et Maxime
MATTHIAS ET MAXIME Xavier DOLAN — CANADA — 119 minutes IN A NUTSHELL Matthias (Gabriel D’Almeida Freitas) and Maxime (played by the young director himself,…
Cannes 2019: Un Certain Regard Prizes Announced
Cannes 2019 is almost over and the Un Certain Regard jury has revealed the festival’s first prizes. Led by president Nadine Labaki, the jury awarded…
