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Atlas Farted: Coppola’s Labor of Love a Lackluster Saga While he’s one of the greatest film directors of all time, mostly thanks to a handful of films he delivered during the 1970s New American Cinema movement, Francis Ford Coppola’s long-gestating,...

The Act of Watching: Lou Ye Mixes Picture Lock Dreams & Lock Down Nightmares Does a film exist if it was never completed? It’s a reality that no working filmmaker ever wants to entertain, and yet we find sixth-generation Chinese...

From the Land of Ice and Snow: Cocina & Leon Pursue Hermetical Cinematic Spell To say the latest feature from the experimentally inclined Chilean directing duo Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña is unclassifiable would be something of an understatement, delving...

The Damned Do Cry: Minervini Details a Doomed Mission For his first narrative feature, Roberto Minervini tackles another aspect of the evolving American identity with The Damned. A period piece depicting a company of volunteer soldiers charged with patrolling and protecting...

Code of Silence: KEFF Revisits Time of Turmoil For his directorial debut, KEFF revisits the pinnacle of turmoil during the 2019 Hong Kong protests as a backdrop for a pseudo gangland thriller and romantic drama in Locust. Much like its...

The slot belonging to the second film of the competition belonged to Magnus von Horn‘s The Girl with the Needle (aka Pigen med nålen) – a Danish-Polish-Swedish co-production in glorious b&w photography. Three feature films in and three Cannes Film...

We kicked off the competition of twenty-two films with a debut feature, which is worth noting given the rarity of newbies in the competition section. It marks two consecutive years for a first feature from a female filmmaker, following Ramata-Toulaye...

Other People’s Money: Rosselli Finds Being Criminal is Relative In keeping with a growing tradition of contemporary Argentinian cinema’s unorthodox narrative structures, editor Hernán Rosselli adds to this offbeat wave with his sophomore narrative feature, Something Old, Something New, Something...

Casa de los Babys: von Horn Hits a Bleak Streak You know you’re in for something dark and dreary when a film opens upon a character in a world where despair has coagulated into grim apathy. Such is the case...

Grieving Rights: Runarsson Explores Interrupted Mourning For his fourth narrative feature, Iceland’s Rúnar Rúnarsson returns to themes of emotional disruption with When the Light Breaks. The film’s Icelandic title, Ljósbrot, roughly translates to ‘refraction of light,’ which is arguably a...