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Cannes 2025: The Little Sister, The Wave
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Today's Cannes dispatch features tales of women fighting for freedom in Algeria and Chile.
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Cannes 2025 Review: A USEFUL GHOST, The Importance of Remembering
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Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke's feature debut tells a very queer ghost story within a story about the importance of remembering. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5 – Chie Hayakawa’s ‘Renoir’
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Gradually making her presence known on the Croisette first with her Cinéfondation selected Niagara (2013) short, and eventually with 2022’s Plan 75 – an Un Certain Regard selection that would end up landing a Camera d’Or Special Mention (read ★★½...
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Cannes Review: Ari Aster’s Eddington is an Ambitious 2020 Period Piece That Works in Fits and Spurts
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In Eddington, Ari Aster’s latest doom spiral, the proposed building of a data center in nowhere New Mexico provides the catalyst for a long-overdue psychological breakdown. The man in question is Sheriff Joe Cross (Joaquin Phoenix), whose perceived list of...
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Des preuves d’amour (Love Letters) | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
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Evidence of Love: Douard’s Debut Reads Between the Lines of Maternal Affections While it plays like something of a specific time capsule, Alice Douard’s Love Letters is really about a compounded state of transition, conflating fluctuating cultural realities with one woman’s...
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I Only Rest In The Storm | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
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White Impact: Pinho Explores the Ponderous Progress Through Post-Colonial Perceptions “We never seem to be where we are,” remarks one of the characters in Pedro Pinho’s simmering sophomore feature I Only Rest in the Storm (O riso e a faca),...
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Cannes Review: I Only Rest in the Storm Glides Over Many Ideas Without Fully Reckoning With Their Weight
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Late into I Only Rest in the Storm, Sergio (Sérgio Coragem) is asked a question he can’t seem to answer: what do you care about? A Portuguese environmental engineer hired to evaluate the ecological impact of a massive road set...
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Cannes Review: Oliver Laxe’s Desert Trance Sirat Is a Grand, Adventurous Achievement
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For the French-Spanish filmmaker Oliver Laxe, a competition berth in Cannes has been a long time coming. Laxe was here in 2010 (You All Are Captains), 2016 (Mimosas), and 2019 (Fire Will Come) without once going home empty-handed, and he...
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Cannes Review: The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo is a Deeply Affecting Queer Drama
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As reminders that ignorance, bigotry, and hate can literally kill, stories about the AIDS epidemic will always be relevant. The latest, beautiful example arrived courtesy of Chilean writer-director Diego Céspedes, whose feature debut The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo premiered...
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Cannes Review: A Useful Ghost Tells a Peculiar, Humorous Paranormal Tale 
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While ghosts and spirits have long been the conduit for cinematic scares and jolts, from The Innocents to Poltergeist to The Ring, a relatively recent wave of films exploring the supernatural has been more concerned with the tangible, emotional effects...
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