Category: Cannes

I was certainly not a stranger to Céline Sciamma’s work after watching the captivating Girlhood (Bande des Filles). And as such her latest film Portrait of a…

Setting the scene. Building character. Applying the dialogue. Structuring the story. I mean, it’s a tireless cliché that the motion picture process begins with the…

Full stream ahead, as we venture forth to bring you the next batch in the Cinema Sevens series. We’re still on the Cannes vibe of…

The festival buzz was at its peak for Parasite, as the latest film from the accomplished director Bong Joon-ho (director of Memories of Murder), and…

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…

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…

Prix d’interprétation féminine – Melina Mercouri Writer-director, Jules Dassin (Rififi, Topkapi), and actress, Melina Mercouri, were married in real life, in 1966. Years after meeting,…

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…

Prix d’interprétation féminine – Bérénice Bejo Prix du Jury Œcuménique Iranian maestro filmmaker, Asghar Farhadi, dipped his toe in French language cinema in 2013 with…

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…

Grand Prix du Festival International du Film – Jacques Demy Prix de la Commission Supérieure Technique OCIC Award Snuggled warmly between Lola (1961) and The…

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….

“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…

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…