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Cannes Day Three: The One That Lost the Thread
Season 1 Episode 434
Film Twelfth of the festival and Farhadi's Parallel Tales is our biggest disappointment so far. Not a disaster, just a misfire, which from a filmmake…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Cannes Day Three: Bring Someone You Love
Season 1 Episode 433
Film eleven of the festival and Tangles wrecked us. Leah Nelson's animated debut about a daughter watching her mother disappear to Alzheimer's is fun…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Cannes Day Three: This Is What We Came For
Season 1 Episode 432
Film ten of the festival and Pawel Pawlikowski's Fatherland is the one. Thomas Mann, his daughter Erika, a road trip through a country trying to forg…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Cannes Day Three: What the Ice Hides
Season 1 Episode 431
Film two of day three and Manuela Martelli's The Meltdown gives us one of the festival's most haunting central images: a country that tried to ship i…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Cannes Day Three: The Weight of the Morning
Season 1 Episode 430
We open day three with Forsaken, Vincent Garenq's docudrama about the murder of French schoolteacher Samuel Paty. The subject is essential, Antoine R…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Cannes Day Two: Give In
Season 1 Episode 429
We close out our second day at Cannes with Jane Schoenbrun's wildest, warmest film yet. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is about slashers, orgas…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Cannes Day Two: The Woman Who Carries Everything
Season 1 Episode 428
Film six of our second day and A Woman's Life gives us the festival's best performance so far in Léa Drucker, wrapped inside a film that starts vast …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Cannes Day Two: The One That Got Away
Season 1 Episode 427
Film five of our second day at Cannes, and Ashes is the one that frustrates most. Diego Luna's immigrant drama strips itself so bare it forgets to ha…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Cannes Day Two: Finally, Something Worth the Trip
Season 1 Episode 426
After a shaky start to the festival, Koji Fukada's Nagi Notes arrives like a deep breath. Two women, a barn, a camphorwood sculpture, and three runaw…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
The Insect Jam Guy: Is Butterfly Jam Cannes' Weirdest Bet?
Season 1 Episode 425
Barry Keoghan feeds people bug jam, a pelican witnesses a coming of age, and Kantemir Balagov somehow makes all of it feel like a fairy tale. We dig …
3 months, 3 weeks ago