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Sound of Falling | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: Schilinksi Paints a Microcosm of Misogyny The original title of Mascha Schilinski’s sophomore feature was The Doctor Says I’m Alright, But I’m Feelin’ Blue, which actually better captures the sinister poetics of...
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L’intérêt d’Adam | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
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No Bandaid Solutions: Wandel’s Suffocating Drama Explores Collective Collateral Damage Following her remarkable debut Playground (read review), Belgian auteur Laura Wandel moves from a harrowing portrait of schoolyard cruelty to shifting her focus to another intense microcosm in L’intérêt d’Adam...
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Enzo | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
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Call Me By Your Pain: Campillo Gently Guides Cantet’s Swan Song Laurent Cantet was a filmmaker consistently concerned with humans existing on the margins, those whose experiences were often invisible or unexplored in cinema. Known for extolling a ‘fabricated realism’...
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IndieSponge Episode: 2025 Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or Predictions
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Before our official June relaunch, Kevin Jagernauth and I deliver our top three picks for what we believe has a firm chance at grabbing the Palme d’Or this year — plus we offer our bonus dark horse picks as well....
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Leave One Day (Partir un Jour) | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
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Chef’s Kiss: Bonnin Uses Familiar Recipe in Pleasant Debut For her directorial debut, Partir un Jour (Leave One Day), based on her own 2021 Cesar Award Winning short film, Amélie Bonnin whips up a crowd pleasing confection which could have...
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Live From Cannes!!! Meet the Jury For Our 2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel
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IONCINEMA.com has been gauging the pulse of the Palme d’Or competition since 2011. We first jumped into the water when trades such as Screen Daily and Le film français would publish the results …. print form only a day later....
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Love (Kjærlighet) | Review
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Ain’t Nothin’ But Sex Misspelled: Haugerud Continues Quiet, Earnest Talking Cure Trilogy Norwegian director Dag Johan Haugerud continues his sexuality-themed film trilogy (Sex/Dreams/Love) in Love, following the first installment, Sex, which premiered earlier this year at the Berlin International Film...
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Sister Midnight | Review
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Crazy On You: Kandhari’s Strange Fantasy of Madness It’s been nearly twenty years since director Karan Kandhari’s 2005 debut Bye Bye Miss Goodnight (since then working on short films and music videos, including Franz Ferdinand’s “Stand on the Horizon”). He’s back with...
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The Damned | Review
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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...
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Exclusive Clip: It’s Chill Vibes (for Now) in Pedro Pinho’s ‘I Only Rest In The Storm’
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After premiering The Nothing Factory in the Directors’ Fortnight section back in 2017, Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Pinho returns to Cannes this time with I Only Rest In The Storm (O riso e a faca) over in the Un Certain Regard...
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