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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
Cannes Day Four: The One That Got Away
Season 1 Episode 442
We close day four with The Blow, a film with two remarkable performances, a bold visual instinct, and an editing problem that undoes most of it. Twen…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Cannes Day Four: The Man Behind the Song
Season 1 Episode 441
Film nineteen of the festival and Marie Kreutzer's Gentle Monster is one of the bravest films at Cannes this year. Léa Seydoux discovers her husband …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Cannes Day Four: The Cult, the Ex, and Marion Cotillard
Season 1 Episode 440
Film eighteen of the festival and Karma, Guillaume Canet's cult melodrama starring his now-ex-wife Marion Cotillard, is exactly as juicy as it sounds…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Cannes Day Four: Holding the World Together
Season 1 Episode 439
We continue day four with Congo Boy, Rafiki Fariala's debut about a seventeen-year-old Congolese refugee in Bangui holding his family together by she…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Cannes Day Four: I Want More Time With You
Season 1 Episode 438
Film sixteen and Hamaguchi's All of a Sudden is the one. 196 minutes of two women talking, one of them dying, all of it in Paris, and somehow the mos…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Cannes Day Four: The Morning After
Season 1 Episode 437
Film fifteen of the festival and Club Kid is the surprise we didn't see coming. Jordan Firstman's debut is filthy, funny, shot on 35mm in a New York …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Cannes Day Four: Does He Deserve Forgiveness?
Season 1 Episode 436
ilm fourteen of the festival and Reed Van Dyk's Atonement is the most morally serious American film we've seen at Cannes. A Marine. An Iraqi mother. …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Cannes Day Four: Something Light, Something True
Season 1 Episode 435
We open day four with Words of Love, Rudi Rosenberg's Un Certain Regard family drama about a girl chasing a father who won't answer the door. It's wa…
3 months, 3 weeks ago