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Cannes Review: Chie Hayakawa’s Renoir is a Gradually Rewarding Coming-of-Age Story
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Just three years since earning a special mention from the Camera d’Or jury for Plan 75, Chie Hayakawa returns to Cannes as one of seven filmmakers debuting in the main competition––an uncharacteristic breath of fresh air from a festival known...
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Cannes Review: With Nouvelle Vague, Richard Linklater Offers a Cinema Masterclass
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Shot on black-and-white film with the same Cameflex model used by Jean-Luc Godard for Breathless––the film it portrays and embodies the making of––Nouvelle Vague is not merely an imitation of Godard. It’s a theft of Godard for a creation all...
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Cannes 2025: A Useful Ghost, Arco
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Ghostly household appliances and a boy from the future mark two of Cannes' more out-there entries this year.
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Cannes 2025 Video #2: Festival Dispatch with Isaac Feldberg
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Two of our contributors sit down to talk about what they've seen (and loved) at Cannes so far.
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Nouvelle Vague | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
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Make Me Lose My Breath: Linklater Meddles in Manicured Homage It’s unclear what the exact purpose of Nouvelle Vague is meant to serve, other than paying irreverent homage to Jean-Luc Godard and the making of his iconic debut feature, “...
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2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5 – Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love
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A Cannes Film Festival regular, British filmmaker Lynne Ramsay has five features under her belt and all of them have shored up on the Croisette (this also includes two shorts as well – in 1996, she was awarded the Jury’s...
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Renoir | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
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Family of Straw: Hayakawa Paints Busy Coming-of-Age Portrait Going in the opposite direction of her 2022 debut Plan 75, a sci-fi meditation on Japan’s aging population, director Chie Hayakawa sets her sights on one defining summer for an eleven-year-old girl...
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Cannes 2025 Review: NOUVELLE VAGUE Knows It Shouldn’t Exist
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Richard Linklater and co. go walking, talking, and exploring with the Cahiers crew. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5 – Richard Linklater’s ‘Nouvelle Vague’
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This is Cannes Film Festival’s third invite (second time competition) to veteran American indie filmmaker Richard Linklater. Oddly his first visit was almost two decades back and he came packing a pair of films – Fast Food Nation and A...
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Die My Love | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
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Images of Yellow Wallpaper: Ramsay Charts a Psychotic Break For her first narrative feature in eight years, Lynne Ramsay returns with Die My Love, based on the 2019 novel by Ariana Harwicz. In essence, it’s a troubling, captivating character study...
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