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Cannes Day Nine: He Wants to Fall in Love With Me
Season 1 Episode 466
Film forty-four of the festival and Ira Sachs' The Man I Love is the finest AIDS film in years precisely because it refuses to be an AIDS film. Rami …
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Cannes Day Nine: We Know That Man
Season 1 Episode 465
Film forty-three of the festival and Emmanuel Marre's A Man of His Time is the most uncomfortable film we've seen at Cannes. His own great-grandfathe…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Cannes Day Nine: The Waymo Scene
Season 1 Episode 464
Film forty-two of the festival and Andy Garcia's Diamond has one of the best setups at Cannes this year: a 1940s gumshoe nearly flattened by a self-d…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Cannes Day Nine: They Still Show Up
Season 1 Episode 463
We open day nine with Clio Barnard's I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning, an ensemble drama about five working-class friends from Birmingham hitting …
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Cannes Day Eight: That's Right
Season 1 Episode 462
Film forty of the festival and Almodóvar arrives in competition with Bitter Christmas, a Möbius strip of autofiction about a filmmaker who feeds on t…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Cannes Day Eight: The War Is Everywhere
Season 1 Episode 461
Film thirty-nine of the festival and Zvyagintsev returns after nine years with Minotaur, a domestic thriller set in Russia in 2022 as the war in Ukra…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Cannes Day Eight: Don't Fight the Mist
Season 1 Episode 460
We open day eight with Nicolas Winding Refn's Her Private Hell, a neo-giallo nightmare set in a futuristic city where a diamond-knuckled demon stalks…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Cannes Day Seven: The Specific Silence
Season 1 Episode 459
Film thirty-seven of the festival and Sandra Wollner's Everytime is the one that broke us today. A teenager falls from a rooftop and the film spends …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Cannes Day Seven: Nobody Is Entirely Right
Season 1 Episode 458
Film thirty-six of the festival and Cristian Mungiu's Fjord is the Palme d'Or contender we did not see coming. A Romanian family, a Norwegian village…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Cannes Day Seven: Who Were You Before This?
Season 1 Episode 457
We open day seven with Arthur Harari's The Unknown, a body-swap thriller about identity, transformation, and the idea that who we are is ultimately a…
3 months, 3 weeks ago