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Cannes 2025: Dossier 137, A Pale View of Hills, The Great Arch
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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
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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
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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
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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’
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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)
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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
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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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Cannes 2025: The Plague, The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo, Amrum
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On three movies about difficult childhoods from this year's Cannes.
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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
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The Lost Daughter: Herzi Passes Up Potency in Standard Adaptation “My name is Fatima,” is one of the constant refrains utilized in Fatima Daas’ celebrated first novel The Last One (2020), a fragmented piece of auto-fiction which parallels the author’s...
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THE REMEDY’s Alex Kahuam Announces Next Project, STAY WITH ME
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Alex Kahuam had barely set foot on the ground at Cannes to present their latest film, The Remedy, during the programming at Fantastic Pavilion, when they announced their next project. Variety had the scoop yesterday on his next film, Stay...
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