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Cannes Review: Gentle Monster Is a Masterfully Performed Drama In the Aftermath of Betrayal
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“Look into my eyes / can you see they’re open wide / would I lie to you?” Those lyrics linger in the air as a soft whisper for only a moment before the accompanying piano notes carry them away and...
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Cannes Film Festival 2026: Lila Pinell’s ‘Shana’ and Pierre le Gall’s ‘Flesh and Fuel’
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“Primal” is a good word to describe the characters from these feature directorial debuts. The post Cannes Film Festival 2026: Lila Pinell’s ‘Shana’ and Pierre le Gall’s ‘Flesh and Fuel’ appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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“FOREVER YOUR MATERNAL ANIMAL”
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THE STORY – Focusing on 28-year-old Elsa’s return to San José as she navigates between her mentally unstable sister, Amalia, and her disengaged parents. THE CAST – Marina de Tavira, Reinaldo Amién, Daniela Marín Navarro, & Mariangel Villegas THE TEAM –...
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“MADE OF FLESH AND FUEL”
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THE STORY – Étienne is a lorry driver. Fastened to the road, his love life is reduced to fleeting, nameless encounters in parking lots. When he meets Bartosz, a Polish lorry driver, his loneliness is turned upside down. THE CAST –...
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Cannes 2026: Clarissa, Atonement, Butterfly Jam
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On three films from this year's Director's Fortnight, including two of the fest's best so far.
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“THE DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID”
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THE STORY – A young Romanian woman living in France works for a French family and joins a theatre company who are adapting Octave Mirbeau’s “The Diary of a Chambermaid.” THE CAST – Ana Dumitrașcu, Marie Rivière, Mélanie Thierry & Vincent...
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“PROPELLER ONE-WAY NIGHT COACH”
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THE STORY – Set in the golden age of aviation, a young airplane enthusiast, Jeff and his mother set off on a one-way cross-country odyssey to Hollywood, which transforms a simple flight into the trip of a lifetime. Between airline meals,...
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“COLONY”
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THE STORY – Professor Se-jeong is thrust into a bloody nightmare when a rapidly mutating virus is released during a biotech conference, causing authorities to seal the facility. Trapped inside with no escape, Se-jeong, along with a small group of survivors,...
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The Next Best Picture Podcast – “Obsession”
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For this week’s main podcast review, Josh Parham, Giovanni Lago, Larry Fried, and Ben Langford join me to review and discuss Curry Barker’s “Obsession” starring Michael Johnston, Inde Navarrette, Cooper Tomlinson, Megan Lawless, and Andy Richter. The story follows a young hopeless romantic who breaks...
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Shana | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
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Happy-Go-Mucky: Pinell Finds Purpose with a Woman in Transition “No one ever wanted her forever,” is a partial description of the titular character in Gail Parent’s 1972 novel Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York, widely regarded as...
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