Tag: festival
Cannes Compétition Prospectus – A Gentle Creature
A Gentle Creature Sergei Loznitsa Ukraine, France CRITICAL RESPONSE “Loznitsa has always been a director fascinated by faces, the sheer variety of human expressions and…
Cannes Compétition Prospectus – Good Time
Good Time Joshua and Ben Safdie United States CRITICAL RESPONSE “Good Time is a poignantly ironic title: it means the reduction of jail time for…
Cannes Compétition Prospectus – Rodin
Rodin Jacques Doillon France, Belgium CRITICAL RESPONSE “Jacques Doillon delivers a useful educational tool for the armchair traveler too lazy to go to a museum….
Cannes Compétition Prospectus – The Beguiled
The Beguiled Sofia Coppola United States CRITICAL RESPONSE “Coppola completely sucks out any of the original’s over the top sequences for more art house, painterly…
Cannes Compétition Prospectus – Radiance
Radiance Naomi Kawase Japan, France CRITICAL RESPONSE “Kawase’s work demonstrates an interest in the metaphysical, whether it involves speculation on the afterlife or the meaning…
Cannes Compétition Prospectus – The Day After
The Day After Hong Sang-soo South Korea CRITICAL RESPONSE “The Day After has its share of wry musings and twitchy banter between characters to counter…
Cannes Compétition Prospectus – Happy End
Happy End Michael Haneke France, Germany, Austria CRITICAL RESPONSE “Haneke’s magisterial control of tone, actor and shot is not to be underestimated: there are scenes…
Cannes Compétition Prospectus – The Killing of a Sacred Deer
The Killing of a Sacred Deer Yorgos Lanthimos Ireland, United Kingdom, United States CRITICAL RESPONSE “As in all his best work, Lanthimos is brilliant at…
Cannes Compétition Prospectus – Redoubtable
Redoubtable Michel Hazanavicius France CRITICAL RESPONSE “First and foremost, Le Redoutable is a marvelous comedy very reminiscent of Woody Allen’s classics (it has a few…
Cannes Compétition Prospectus – The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) Noah Baumbach United States CRITICAL RESPONSE “As a student of classic comedies, Baumbach uses strategies that work, freshening them…
Cannes Compétition Prospectus – The Square
The Square Ruben Östlund Sweden, Denmark, United States, France CRITICAL RESPONSE “[Ruben] Östlund skillfully ties his many ideas together and makes his statement in the…
Cannes Compétition Prospectus – BPM (Beats per Minute)
BPM (Beats per Minute) Robin Campillo France CRITICAL RESPONSE “Bearing a closer resemblance to the social-realism of Campillo’s screenwriting with collaborator Laurent Cantet, which includes…
Cannes Compétition Prospectus – Jupiter's Moon
Jupiter’s Moon Kornél Mundruczó Hungary CRITICAL RESPONSE “Almost imperceptibly the story shifts into a zanier mode that will include a major car chase, shootouts and…
Cannes Compétition Prospectus – Okja
Okja Bong Joon-ho South Korea, United States CRITICAL RESPONSE “Okja is fun, if sometimes over-egged, as an adventure romp, but flounders in overstatement when it…
