Tag: Festival de Cannes
Festival de Cannes Review: Crimes of the Future (2022)
Crimes of the Future was the name of a short David Cronenberg made in 1970. The inspiration for the title came from Henning Carlsen’s classic…
Festival de Cannes Review: Triangle of Sadness (2022)
Triangle of Sadness is Ruben Östlund’s sixth feature to date and, by far, his most expensive. It is also his weakest work thus far, and I…
Festival de Cannes Opening Film Review: Final Cut (2022)
As I mentioned in my text about Annette, the opening film at the Cannes Film Festival is generally nothing to write home about. This year’s opener was the…
Festival de Cannes 75th Edition Official Selection Announced
Yesterday, Thursday 14th April, it was that time again for Pierre Lescure and Thierry Frémaux to announce the Official Selection for the 75th edition of…
Festival de Cannes Review: Clara Sola (Nathalie Álvarez Mesén)
Clara Sola is the debut feature of the Costa Rican-Swedish director Nathalie Álvarez Mesén. It was screened in the Quinzaine de Réalisateur section and is…
‘Titane’, ‘A Hero’, ‘Annette’ among Festival de Cannes Winners 74th Edition
Here we are then. In mid-July, with the closing ceremony of the 74th Cannes Film Festival. Check out the 2021 winners as the prizes which…
Festival de Cannes Review: Robuste (Constance Meyer)
Robuste, or Robust as it’s called in English, with an untranslatable pun, was the opening film of Semaine de la Critique in this year’s Cannes…
Festival de Cannes Review: Jane par Charlotte (Charlotte Gainsbourg)
When Jaques Rivette made Love On the Ground in 1984 he said that one of the best reasons for making films is being able to…
Festival de Cannes Review: Cow (Andrea Arnold)
This may be a personal issue, but there’s something about Andrea Arnold‘s brand of wallowing realism that never quite brings a point to its misery….
Festival de Cannes Review: Annette (Leos Carax)
So May We Start? The opening film of this year’s Cannes Film Festival was Annette, directed by Leos Carax and written and scored by Sparks. It is…
74th Festival de Cannes: Here are the Films of the Official Selection
Just hours ago, on an early June morning in Paris, Thierry Frémaux and Pierre Lescure announced the films coming our way at the 74th Festival…
1988 in Film: Nuovo cinema Paradiso / Cinema Paradiso
In one of many scenes of sheer marvel from Cinema Paradiso, our young adult hero has his romantic fantasy interrupted by heavy rainfall. Seconds later,…
Festival de Cannes Review: The Tree of Life (2011)
It is impossible for me to keep from bringing a spiritual mindset to the movie watching experience. I echo Roger Ebert in seeing films as…
Maïwenn, François Ozon, Naomi Kawase Return as the Festival de Cannes Announces its Official Competition Selection for the 73rd Edition
It’s Wednesday 3rd June. And the official line-up for the 73rd Festival de Cannes, has been revealed, live from the UGC Normandie, Paris. As it…
