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Much Ado About Fussing: Anderson Spills More Twee The Wes Anderson devotee cult has been searching for a way to justify his cinematic sainthood following an arguable trend of hollow triumphs, and it seems his latest endeavor, The Phoenician Scheme,...

A favorite filmmaker of the festival, and perhaps the best Brazilian filmmaker currently working, Kleber Mendonça Filho has been to Cannes on many occasions. He has been a fiour star tyope of filmmaker for us with Aquarius (read ★★★★ review)...

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, “...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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),...