Tag: Cannes
Festival de Cannes Official Competition Prospectus – Sorry We Missed You
SORRY WE MISSED YOU Ken LOACH — UK, FRANCE, BELGIUM — 100 minutes IN A NUTSHELL Ken Loach’s latest film deals with zero-hour contracts and the complications…
Festival de Cannes Official Competition Prospectus – Atlantique
ATLANTIQUE / ATLANTICS Mati DIOP — FRANCE, SENEGAL, BELGIUM — 104 minutes IN A NUTSHELL In Mati Diop’s debut feature, a young woman named Ada (Mama Sané)…
Allison in Cannes 2019, Part Seven: Abou Leila; Portrait of a Lady on Fire; Adam
Abou Leila “We’ve all gone mad. All of us.” Algeria in 1994 was a dangerous place. People were shot and knifed at every turn, and…
Festival de Cannes Official Competition Prospectus – Bacurau
BACURAU Kleber MENDONÇA FILHO, Juliano DORNELLES — BRAZIL, FRANCE — 132 minutes IN A NUTSHELL Set slightly in the future, the film follows Teresa (Bárbara Colen) who…
Festival de Cannes Official Competition Prospectus – Les Misérables
LES MISÉRABLES Ladj LY — FRANCE — 103 minutes IN A NUTSHELL This urban drama examines the hostility between police and civilians set in a…
Festival de Cannes Official Competition Prospectus – The Dead Don’t Die
The Dead Don’t Die Jim JARMUSCH — USA — 103 minutes IN A NUTSHELL Strange things seem to be occurring in the small peaceful town…
French Acting Legend Alain Delon Receives an Honorary Palme d’Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival
Legendary French actor, and heartthrob, Alain Delon has been walking the Croisette at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival, where he was given an Honorary Palme…
Allison in Cannes 2019, Part Six: On a Magical Night; Liberté; Share; Land of Ashes
On a Magical Night “Why awaken the past?” Chambre 212 opens comedically with Maria (Chiara Mastrioanni), à law professor that gets entangled in an extramarital affair….
Allison in Cannes 2019, Part Five: Port Authority; Joan of Arc
Port Authority Danielle Lessovitz brings us a male-centric, slow burn film that slowly introduces female characters. The main character, Paul (Fionn Whitehead, Bandersnatch), brings us his…
Allison in Cannes 2019, Part Four: Des Hommes, Sorry We Missed You; Papicha; Burning Ghost
Des Hommes Pretty unexhilarating take on the prison system in France. There have been better documentaries on prison reform. Sorry We Missed You “Who cares.”…
Allison in Cannes 2019, Part Three: Beanpole; The Swallows of Kabul; A White, White Day
Beanpole Some moments of the movie were framed so perfectly… like it was a modern Persona. Unfortunately, the story and actresses don’t measure up to an…
Allison in Cannes 2019, Part Two: Litigante; Bull; As Happy as Possible
The Defendant Litigante is a family D-R-A-M-A. It concerns a single mother who is trying her best to balance work, her energetic son who is a…
Allison in Cannes 2019, Part One: The Dead Don’t Die
The Dead Don’t Die While I felt fortunate to see The Dead Don’t Die on the evening of the French release, it was very slow and derivative….
Cannes: Video – Nadine Labaki Talks About Coming Back to Cannes
Female filmmaker, Nadine Labaki, returns to the Cannes Film Festival this year. This time, as the President of the Un Certain Regard jury. Previous, the…
