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Cannes Review: Oh, Canada Finds Paul Schrader Meditating on the Indignities of Dying
by admin|2 years 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|2 years 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|2 years 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|2 years 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|2 years 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|2 years 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|2 years 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|2 years 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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Cannes 2024: Megalopolis
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
Immediately upon exiting “Megalopolis,” Francis Ford Coppola’s wine-backed passion project, I had a single, inescapable thought: I’m glad I got to watch Coppolla’s “Chi-raq.” For some, that admittedly jarring comparison will be a total turnoff. After all, for Spike Lee,...
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Cannes 2024: Kinds of Kindness; Oh, Canada; Scénarios
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
For anyone who complained that Yorgos Lanthimos went soft with "Poor Things" and "The Favourite," "Kinds of Kindness" revives the malicious tendencies that have run through even some of his best films. The movie reunites him with his early and frequent...
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