This year, Cannes critics were largely united in their belief that Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Minotaur and Pawel Pawlikowski’s Fatherland were the best films in the competition. Both films won major prizes,
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... a film about an author in crisis — an artist searching for a new form but becoming trapped within his own imagery.
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Fatherland is not only about the past. It is a warning about the cyclical nature of history and the dangers of forgetting.
At last year’s Cannes Film Festival, Chilean director Diego Céspedes emerged as one of the most striking debut voices — not only because of the emotional depth of his film
What’s a film? Award-winning Australian filmmakers Isobel Knowles & Van Sowerwine embrace tech-forward filmmaking techniques to tell stories, with their latest VR documentary, The World Came Flooding In recently winning
Before Thursday’s announcement of the 79th official programme, Cannes artistic director Thierry Fremaux had warned that Hollywood studios no longer want to send their tentpole films to the festival. Essentially,
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Sometimes cinema can transport you to another time and place so effectively that it’s almost better than travelling. The President’s Cake has this transportive quality.
Charlie Polinger’s crafty directorial debut The Plague started from a deeply personal place. “I went to my parents’ house and I was cleaning out my childhood room,” he tells us
“I would say that I’m a decent human being with a decent amount of nightmares,” says Julia Ducournau, the French director behind cannibal drama Raw and the Cannes-winning scabrous slice
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… tense, dark, even abject but also mysterious, thought-provoking and occasionally tender.