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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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Waiting for Cannes
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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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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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The Traitor
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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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Mektoub - My Love Intermezzo
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Festival de Cannes Official Competition Prospectus – Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo

MEKTOUB, MY LOVE: INTERMEZZO Abdellatif Kechiche — France — 240 minutes IN A NUTSHELL Sequel to Mektoub My Love: Canto Uno, sees a bunch of…

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Roubaix, Une Lumiere
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Festival de Cannes Official Competition Prospectus – Roubaix, une lumière / Oh Mercy!

ROUBAIX, UNE LUMIÈRE / OH MERCY! Arnaud DESPLECHIN — FRANCE — 119 minutes IN A NUTSHELL Based on a true story and the 2008 TV…

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Matthias et Maxime
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Festival de Cannes Official Competition Prospectus – Matthias et Maxime

MATTHIAS ET MAXIME Xavier DOLAN — CANADA — 119 minutes IN A NUTSHELL Matthias (Gabriel D’Almeida Freitas) and Maxime (played by the young director himself,…

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Un Certain Regard
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Cannes 2019: Un Certain Regard Prizes Announced

Cannes 2019 is almost over and the Un Certain Regard jury has revealed the festival’s first prizes. Led by president Nadine Labaki, the jury awarded…

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