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The final grades trickled in and finally, our top three has slightly changed. Instead of a firm trio, we now have a foursome as the Norwegian film added itself to the mix. All four films are Neon releases in North...

Thieves Like Us: Reichardt Wanders with an Inscrutable Slacker Abstract paintings are not the only undefined objects in The Mastermind, the latest from Kelly Reichardt, who has become a master herself at creating quiet, emotionally resonant characterizations of lonely, isolated...

He won Venice. He won the Berlinale. He now wins the Palme. With strong competition from the likes of Kleber Mendonça Filho, Oliver Laxe and Joachim Trier, it was finally Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident landing the top...

Bonjour Tristesse: The Dardenne Bros. Explore Teenage Pregnancy In their latest neo-realist exercise on plights of the disenfranchised, the Dardenne Bros. return to gentler themes with Young Mothers. A coterie of teen mothers living in a shelter find themselves confronted...

Tomorrow is the big day. There were twenty-two films in competition and only one will take home the big daddy prize. If it were according to our Cannes Critics’ Panel – it would be a Spanish film that would be...

While she has dropped world premieres at Sundance and Venice (plus Telluride), Kelly Reichardt has been flirting with Cannes on three occasions total (plus when she was feted by the Quinzaine folks with the Carrosse d’Or award). It began with...

Winner of the Palme d’Or for 1999’s Rosetta (which also took Best Actress for the recently departed Émilie Dequenne) and 2005’s The Child, Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne have been Cannes mainstays landing accolades for almost their entire filmography. Jeunes mères...

An already acclaimed filmmaker in his own right after 2015’s Kaili Blues won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival and 2018’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night was selected for the Cannes Film Festival – the Un Certain Regard...

Iranian filmmaker Saeed Roustaee (also spelled Saeed Roustayi – I know its annoying) became part of the Cannes family when he gave us the competition title Leila’s Brothers back in 2022 (read ★★ review). For his fourth feature film, we...

In Dreams: Gan Explores a Century of the Cinematic Syndrome We are such stuff as dreams (and celluloid) are made on, according to the sumptuous third film Resurrection from Bi Gan. The title is itself something of a misnomer, concerned...