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Of Human Bondage: Hamaguchi Highlights Humanity in Quiet Drama In the midst of what ends up being a transformative month for the principal players in Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s latest film All of a Sudden, there’s an experimental play serving as a...

The second Japanese filmmaker to premiere in the competition this year, Ryusuke Hamaguchi doesn’t have an extensive Cannes history with only Asako I & II competed in 2018 and 2021’s Best International Feature Film Oscar winner Drive My Car (Best...

The Double Life of the Voyeurist: Farhadi Fails with Out of Touch Drama Initially, it would seem Asghar Farhadi’s decision to present a contemporary world littered with anachronistic tendencies in Parallel Tales served some greater narrative purpose. Unfortunately, the end...

Every Mann for Themselves: Pawlikowski Remains Chilly with Cold War Permafrost Two iconoclastic German writers are locked in a spiritual duel for relevance at the onset of a tenuous new world order in Pawel Pawlikowski’s Fatherland, arguably more frosty than...

After gaining international recognition with Berlinale entries in Silver Bear for Best Director About Elly (2009) and Golden Bear winning (plus Oscar winning) A Separation in 2011, Asghar Farhadi made the move to Cannes with 2013’s The Past (Bérénice Bejo...

Post My Summer of Love (2004) and The Woman in the Fifth (2011), it’s with his fourth feature where Paweł Pawlikowski become someone to factor as a Croisette conversation whatever future output after showcasing Ida – it garnered 70 international...

The Story of O: Schoenbrun Approaches the Horrific Desire Inside Us All The inextricable union of victim, victimizer, and witness becomes a metatextual balancing act in Jane Schoenbrun’s formidable third film Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, a gonzo...

With her sophomore feature, Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet made her first trip up the red carpet steps today as one of the several competition first-timers. Sshe unveiled her short Pauline asservie at Critics’ Week in 2018, then presented her debut feature Les...

Koji Fukada emerged as one of the major voices of contemporary Japanese cinema through intimate dramas examining social alienation, fractured families and emotional repression but he has not always been a sure bet for Cannes with items finding themselves on...

Things to Come: Bourgeois-Tacquet Explores an Affair to Remember Crimes of the heart are afoot once more in Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s A Woman’s Life (La Vie d’une femme), a film which feels a lot less generic than its title suggests (and is...