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Phantom Limb: Panahi Treads Ripples of Retribution Jafar Panahi continues to poke the bear with It Was Just an Accident, his latest being another film made without permission from the Iranian government and perhaps his most direct indictment of the...

In an even split, and in two different waves, Italian filmmaker Mario Martone has populated the Un Certain Regard section with L’Amore molesto (1995) and Theatro di guerra (1998), then worked mostly as a stage director for operas before returning...

Jafar Panahi might be more synonymous with Berlin say over Cannes, but he has left his mark with the likes of 1995 Camera d’Or winner The White Balloon and masterwork Crimson Gold back in 2003 in the Un Certain Regard...

Buliana Simon Shines In Gritty Immigrant Story That Struggles To Take Flight As the opening credits reveal, Aisha Can’t Fly was developed with the support of almost every international film festival and lab you can think of. Unfortunately, all that...

Body horror, psychological issues, and social commentary best describe the cinema of Julia Ducournau and we could potentially find the same in what could be flammable material in the competition. She premiered Raw in the Critics’ Week in 2016, and...

Turn to Stone: Ducournau Hits a Wall with Disease Allegory “Death is the cure for all illness,” wrote English writer Thomas Browne, which is a sentiment one can apply to Alpha, the third film from budding body horror extraordinaire Julia...

Swedish filmmaker Tarik Saleh has been moving up from arthouse The Nile Hilton Incident (read ★★★ review) and genre items The Contractor (read ★★ review) to Cannes type projects such as Cairo Conspiracy aka Boy From Heaven (read ★★½ review)....

One Flew Over the Coup’s Nest: Saleh Muddles Through Propaganda Politics “Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true,” so said Hubert H. Humphrey. In the case...

The Family Tree Grows Tangled Roots In Romane Bohringer’s Metafictional Feature Family can make you and family can break you apart. The ties that bind are the same that can cinch too tight, leaving you bound to those that have...

Male Friendship Comes Apart In Hubert Charuel’s Assured Sophomore Feature A meteorite enters Earth’s atmosphere moving up to 72 kilometers per second and (usually) burns up before striking the ground. Best friends Mika (Paul Kircher) and Daniel (Idir Azougli) seem...