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Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4
by admin|1 month ago|Ioncinema
Writer of the 1976 Palme d’Or winner Taxi Driver, and having been in comp with Mishima (1985) and Patty Hearst (1988), this is Paul Schrader’s long-awaited return with might be the final film of his career in Oh, Canada. This...
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Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4
by admin|1 month ago|Ioncinema
A film that went into production as they were still doing post-production on Poor Things, Kinds of Kindness becomes Yorgos Lanthimos‘ third trip to the Cannes competition after presenting The Lobster in 2015 and then The Killing of a Sacred...
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Cannes Review: Oh, Canada Finds Paul Schrader Meditating on the Indignities of Dying
by admin|1 month ago|The Film Stage
The cinema of Paul Schrader has always felt like a confessional, all those dark rooms and troubled men, the registered Swiftie’s own tortured poets department. The confessional edges closer to the form in his latest film, Oh Canada, an august...
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Emanuel Pârvu’s Three Kilometres to the End of the World – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4
by admin|1 month ago|Ioncinema
One of the last trio of entries to be included in the competition was completely off our radar. Actor turned director Emanuel Pârvu‘s third feature film received a highly coveted spot for a Cannes first-timer with Three Kilometres to the...
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In Retreat | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|1 month ago|Ioncinema
A Man of Constant Sorrow: Ali Explores the Network of Disconnection There’s an inescapable sense of mournfulness throughout Maisam Ali’s debut In Retreat, in which the forlorn protagonist has realized, quite irrefutably, that one can never go home again. But...
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Cannes Review: In Christmas Eve at Miller’s Point, Cinema and Family Beautifully Come Together
by admin|1 month ago|The Film Stage
Writing on Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island in 2010, Anthony Lane whipped a quote from Umberto Eco: “Two cliches make us laugh but a hundred clichés move us, because we sense dimly that the clichés are talking among themselves, celebrating a...
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Most People Die on Sundays | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|1 month ago|Ioncinema
A Month of Sundays: Said Squeezes Magic Out of Melancholy The tagline for Iair Said’s sophomore film More People Die on Sundays (Los domingos mueren más personas) could very well be “Death Be Not Loud,” as it examines a somewhat...
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Savanna and the Mountain | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|1 month ago|Ioncinema
Once Upon a Time in Barroso: Carneiro Speaks Truth to Power Opening with the gusto of a faded fairy tale, Portuguese filmmaker Paulo Carneiro’s Savanna and the Mountain (A savana e a montanha), which is technically the documentary filmmaker’s narrative...
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Cannes 2024 Review: MOST PEOPLE DIE ON SUNDAYS, Affecting Funeral Drama Marred By Slow Pace
by admin|1 month ago|Screen Anarchy
Personal, vaguely auto-fictional stories are de rigueur for first-time filmmakers, especially actors turning directors.Iair Said, seen in last year’s The Delinquents, makes an undistinguished debut after trying his hand at a couple of shorts.   Increasingly, subjects of coming-of-age tales...
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Oh, Canada | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|1 month ago|Ioncinema
Pieces of a Man: Schrader Explores Atonement in Toned Down Adaptation Throughout his illustrious career as a director and screenwriter, Paul Schrader has specialized in crafting characters, most often men, wracked with guilt and anxiety, searching for forgiveness. His twenty-fourth...
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