cannes film festival reviews

Perhaps the defining paradox of visionary British film director David Lean’s life is the discordance between his professional…

The always eminently watchable Rebecca Hall (The Man I Love, TV’s The Beauty) both anchors and buoys the…

Featuring powerfully atmospheric music and sound design, and a sense of tropical place so moistly palpable one might…

You can call French auteur Bruno Dumont many things: profound, pretentious, visionary, a master of rural poverty porn,…

Cristian Mungiu’s films invariably deal with social, cultural and moral divisions, uneasy truths, ethical dilemmas and unjust compromises.…

One goes to Cannes to see the highest of high-minded cinema, bold and searing visions from the world’s…

There’s a sly sight gag relatively early in Na Hong-jin’s blockbuster-in-the-making, Hope, in which the camera gazes over the…

Adapted from Jenny Erpenbeck’s acclaimed novel Heimsuchung and directed by legendary auteur Volker Schlöndorff (The Tin Drum), Visitation…

“Let there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask no further.” It’s fitting…

Hirokazu Koreeda brings his customary warmth and generosity of spirit to the seemingly cold presence of GenAI in…

For a brief, enticing stretch of Guillaume Canet’s Karma, it appears to be a film in which Canet’s…

Ryusuke Hamaguchi has often shown a fascination for the exchange of ideas as a form of process, negotiation…

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