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Grand Tour | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
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Runaway Groom: Gomes Charts a Barren Odyssey In what serves as an extremely taxing personification of cold feet, Miguel Gomes feels as if he’s going through stylistic motions with his latest feature, Grand Tour. A surprise project considering his long...
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Cannes 2024: Marcello Mio, Parthenope, Elementary
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Chiara Mastroianni really does resemble her dad. Near the beginning of Christophe Honoré's "Marcello Mio," she has a dream in which she looks in the mirror and sees her famous father, Marcello Mastroianni, staring back. Telling her equally famous mother,...
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Parthenope | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
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The Boring & Beautiful: Sorrentino’s Tone Deaf Portrait of a Lady It’s unfortunate no one’s as likely to be infatuated with the eponymous Parthenope (pronounced like ‘Penelope’) as Paolo Sorrentino, utilizing the myth of the failed siren as subtext for...
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Paolo Sorrentino’s Parthenope – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8
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If he has the option between the Croisette or the Lido, Paolo Sorrentino is going to… France. His Cannes journey began with 2004’s The Consequences of Love, followed by 2006’s Friend of the Family, his masterwork Il Divo, his misstep...
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Cannes 2024 Review: THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE, A Potent Period Drama
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One of the first nominees for the Palme d’or that was presented this year at the Cannes International Film Festival was The Girl with the Needle (Pigen med nålen), a great Danish drama, shot in black and white, set at...
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Cannes Review: Sean Baker’s Anora is a Devastating, Gut-Busting Beauty
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Up to this point, Mikey Madison––the fearless, explosive 27-year-old lead of Sean Baker’s Anora––is best-known for her chilling turn as the deranged killer in the 2022 Scream reboot. Before that she was the shrieking Manson girl in the finale of...
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Christophe Honoré’s Marcello Mio – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8
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Having sprinkled his films in the competition section twice before with Les chansons d’amour (2007) and Sorry Angel (2018), Christophe Honoré has also populated the fest with Un Certain Regard, Out of Comp and Directors’ Fortnight offerings. With Marcello Mio,...
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Cannes 2024 Review: In THE SECOND ACT, Quentin Dupieux Continues to Amuse
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Quentin Dupieux’s new film The Second Act (Le deuxième acte) opened the 77th edition of the Cannes International Film Festival. It’s noteworthy that it’s a Netflix co-production and, although this could mean that Dupieux eventually reaches many more people, there’s...
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Fantastic Start to Fourth Season of Evil Maintains Creepy Quality
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“Doesn’t it seem like these assignments are getting weirder?” There’s no program on television more wonderfully weird than “Evil.” Even the journey of this show’s broadcast has been incredibly weird: It started on CBS, moved to Paramount+, recently dropped two...
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A Conversation with Bertrand Bonello (THE BEAST)
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Bertrand Bonello is a multi-hyphenate talent in the film industry. The acclaimed filmmaker is also a producer, composer and actor. His films have been associated with the movement known as New French Extremity. Bonello actually got his start in music...
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