Tag: Festival de Cannes

Plaire, aimer et courir vite / Sorry Angel Christophe Honoré – France IN A NUTSHELL Set in the early 1990s, at the height of the…

Leto / Summer Kirill Serebrennikov – Russia IN A NUTSHELL Kirill Serebrennikov’s latest film is punk movie-musical called Leto, fond tribute to the underground scene…

Yomeddine Abu Bakr Shawky – Egypt IN A NUTSHELL Beshay (Rady Gamal) is a man afflicted by leprosy, traveling across Egypt after his wife’s death…

Todos lo saben / Everybody Knows Asghar Farhadi – Spain IN A NUTSHELL This is the latest film from Iranian director Farhadi who has had…

This is rather a teaser trailer than an actual full length trailer, but still is helps to build up the suspense, tension and mood of…

The trailer begins with rather uplifting music accompanying shots of an urban town, two children are playing on a swing set, and it looks innocent…

What should have been a happy time for director Wanuri Kahiu was peppered with sadness. Her moving drama about two young Kenyan girls falling in…

Oh, it pains me to say this but I really want to see a Lars Von Trier film, and I don’t know why. Or rather,…

After the previous success of The Salesman and A Separation, one would have almost expected director Asghar Farhadi to make his next film in the…

On Wednesday 9th May, I received a message from fellow Filmotomy writer Rob Motto, saying ”Have you heard about this?” There was a link to…

Booing at something, especially a film, is usually considered rather impolite. However at the Cannes Film Festival, it’s actually fairly common.  Almost every year, the…

Podcast 27 has us in the mood for sunny Cannes. The film festival is upon us, and while none of us here at Filmotomy are…

The 2018 Cannes Film Festival runs from May 8-19, and now have their jury of nine ready and waiting for the main competition. The previously…