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Cannes Review: Oliver Laxe’s Desert Trance Sirat Is a Grand, Adventurous Achievement
by admin|4 weeks ago|The Film Stage
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
by admin|4 weeks ago|The Film Stage
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 
by admin|4 weeks ago|The Film Stage
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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Cannes 2025: Dossier 137, A Pale View of Hills, The Great Arch
by admin|4 weeks ago|Roger Ebert
A confidently made procedural from the Competition program for this year’s Palme d’Or should engage with audiences outside of Cannes more than two films that misstep enough that they’re likely to struggle when they leave the sea air on the...
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A Useful Ghost | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|4 weeks ago|Ioncinema
Ghost in the Machine: Boonbunchachoke Ain’t Afraid of No Ghost Spirits, in all their various forms, are an abiding fixture in Thai culture and folklore, represented in a complex spectrum of malignant and benevolent varieties. Two decades ago, Shutter (2004)...
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First Trailer for Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague Brings Cinema History to Life
by admin|4 weeks ago|The Film Stage
After releasing two films last year with Hit Man and the rather-overlooked God Save Texas: Hometown Prison, the ever-prolific Richard Linklater returns in 2025 with two more features. Earlier this year he premiered Blue Moon at Berlinale, which has been set for an October release....
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La Danse des Renards (Wild Foxes) | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|4 weeks ago|Ioncinema
Fox on the Run: Carnoy Explores Bruised Masculinity Following the incestuous liaison of Catherine Breillat’s Last Summer (2023), Samuel Kircher (son of Irene Jacob) braces for impact in more familiar territory with Wild Foxes, the directorial debut of Valéry Carnoy....
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2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4 – Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’
by admin|4 weeks ago|Ioncinema
Unless we count some items he produced, Ari Aster is one of the filmmakers coming to Cannes without any previous Croisette history. A standout in the horror field and psychological warfare, it was only a question of time to see...
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2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4 – Hafsia Herzi’s ‘La Petite Dernière’ (The Little Sister)
by admin|4 weeks ago|Ioncinema
Actress-filmmaker (she forever stole our cinephile heart for her role in Abdellatif Kechiche’s The Secret of the Grain back in 2007) Hafsia Herzi has made a striking impression adored on the Croisette with Tu mérites un amour (2019) locking up...
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Eddington | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|4 weeks ago|Ioncinema
No Country for Smart Men: Aster Satirizes the Obvious It would seem all is actually for naught in Eddington, Ari Aster’s sprawling, meandering fourth and least inspired feature to date. While previously a forerunner of the elevated horror era, Aster...
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