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2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig Tops Our Grid
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And finally, it came down to the wire for not one, but two films that disrupted what had been the top-ranked film among our Cannes Critics’ Panel members. Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez initially reigned supreme, joined shortly by Sean Baker’s...
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Cannes 2024 Review: THE SHROUDS Contemplates Necrophiliac Possibilities of Digital Afterlife
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David Cronenberg doesn't get introspective with his most personal film. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Cannes 2024: The Seed of the Sacred Fig, All We Imagine as Light, The Most Precious of Cargoes
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Sometimes screenings at Cannes are showstoppers for reasons that exist apart from the films themselves. The Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof received a standing ovation when he went to take his seat in the Grand Theatre Lumière for yesterday's premiere of...
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The Seed of the Sacred Fig | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
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Way of the Gun: Rasoulof’s Bold, Blunt Indictment of Iranian Regime There’s been little opportunity for artists to clearly or critically speak truth to power in post-revolutionary Iran, where filmmakers and actors are often censored through brute force. Anything considered...
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Michel Hazanavicius’ The Most Precious of Cargoes – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 11
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The only animated film in the competition, Michel Hazanavicius has been a favorite of the festival landing several competition berths beginning with 2011’s The Artist. The Most Precious of Cargoes became his fourth feature to compete just after showcasing Coupez!...
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Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 11
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The narrative behind Mohammad Rasoulof‘s journey to the Cannes competition (his first) will be talked about for a long time. Escaping his homeland (and an eight-year prison sentence from the country’s authorities for making the film), The Seed of the...
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Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10
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It’s been a solid three decades since Shaji N Karun’s Swaham competed for Palme in 1994, making this a significant moment for Indian auteur cinema. Yet, it’s an even more monumental occasion for Payal Kapadia, transitioning from docum cinema to...
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Gilles Lellouche’s Beating Hearts – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10
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The popular French actor working in just about every film genre has been on the Croisette on a couple of occasions but as a filmmaker got his first taste when Sink or Swim (also known as Le grand bain) —...
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Kidnapped
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Set in 1900s Italy, and based on a true story from Italian history, the story of “Kidnapped” is so primally upsetting that you would think that it would be unbearable to watch. But it proves intoxicating, at times nearly overwhelming,...
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Cannes Review: Grand Tour Marks an Enchanting Return for Miguel Gomes
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If Chris Marker and Preston Sturges ever made a film together, it might have looked something like Grand Tour, a sweeping tale that moves from Rangoon to Manila, via Bangkok, Saigon and Osaka, as it weaves the stories of two...
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