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Cannes 2024: Emilia Pérez, Three Kilometers to the End of the World, Caught by the Tides
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If someone told you that Cannes was showing an original musical about a ruthless cartel kingpin who wants to transition and secretly hires a top-flight lawyer to set the logistics in motion, which director would you guess was at the...
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Jia Zhangke’s Caught By the Tides – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5
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Both a Venice and Cannes Film Festival veteran, Jia Zhangke is coming to Cannes packing not one but two projects – one being a bit of acting part in Black Dog, and of course, we’re more interested in the competition...
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Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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