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Cannes Day Six: We Have All Known Someone
Season 1 Episode 452
Film thirty of the festival and Jeanne Herry's Another Day is one of the most quietly honest addiction dramas in years. Adèle Exarchopoulos plays a f…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Cannes Day Six: The Man Behind the Shadows
Season 1 Episode 451
Film twenty-nine of the festival and László Nemes brings his aesthetic brilliance to the story of French Resistance hero Jean Moulin. The photography…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Cannes Day Six: Strange World, Tender Heart
Season 1 Episode 450
Film twenty-eight of the festival and Dupieux's Full Phil is his most unexpectedly sincere film yet. Woody Harrelson, Kristen Stewart, a clogged toil…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Cannes Day Six: The View From Outside
Season 1 Episode 449
We open day six with Katharina Rivilis' I'll Be Gone in June, a German exchange student in New Mexico in the weeks after 9/11. Shot from memory, buil…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Cannes Day Five: This Is as Good as It Gets
Season 1 Episode 448
Film twenty-six of the festival and James Gray's Paper Tiger is the one we will be talking about when Cannes is over. Queens, 1986, the Russian mob, …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Cannes Day Five: The Fish Stew Scene
Season 1 Episode 447
Film twenty-five of the festival and Sorogoyen's The Beloved is one of the most satisfying films in Competition. Bardem plays a famous director tryin…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Cannes Day Five: The Novel the Novel Always Needed to Be
Season 1 Episode 446
Film twenty-four of the festival and the Esiri brothers' Clarissa is a genuine revelation. Mrs. Dalloway transplanted to present-day Lagos, shot on 3…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Cannes Day Five: The Box With Air Holes
Season 1 Episode 445
Film twenty-three of the festival and Koreeda's Sheep in the Box is the most thought-provoking mild disappointment at Cannes this year. A couple adop…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Cannes Day Five: The Dead That Can't Get Out of Their Own Way
Season 1 Episode 444
Film twenty-two of the festival and Yeon Sang-ho returns to zombies with Colony. The good news: the creature design is genuinely chilling and Jun Ji-…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Cannes Day Five: Stayin' Alive at 33,000 Feet
Season 1 Episode 443
We open day five with John Travolta's directorial debut, a sixty-minute love letter to a TWA flight he took as an eight-year-old in 1962. It is slim,…
3 months, 3 weeks ago