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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…

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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…

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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…

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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….

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Parasite – How a South Korean Film Changed the Landscape

Sometimes, a film is just a film. Then, films like Parasite happen. Parasite premiered at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival to huge acclaim. It won…

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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…

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73rd Cannes International Film Festival Will Not Be Held in May

Following the world wide turbulence caused by the Coronavirus outbreak, it is the time of the 73rd Festival de Cannes organisers to step forward and…

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Little Joe
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Film Review: Little Joe

This reviewer is a particular fan of Lourdes, possibly the Austrian filmmaker Jessica Hausner’s finest work in a steadily prospering career. Her English language debut…

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Filmotomy Podcast 75: Film Festival Survival Guide

Filmotomy Podcast 75 might as well be a milestone. This is a crackingly insightful episode as a trio of femme fatales share their film festival…

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Filmotomy Podcast 73: The Trouble With Quentin Tarantino

So Quentin Tarantino yet again has eager tongues wagging all over the film stratosphere. And the new podcast catches the iron while it is hot….

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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…

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Sibyl
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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…

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It Must Be Heaven
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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…

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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…

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