Cannes
Compartment No 6 (Hytti No 6)
After winning the top prize in the Uncertain Regard section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival for his…
By Emma KielySpecial
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Unclenching the Fists (Razzhimaya Kulaki)
Kira Kovalenko brings to the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival Unclenching the Fists. It…
By Emma Kiely
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Cow
“Has she really gotten this bad?” a farm worker asks another, to which he replies “what do you…
By Emma Kiely
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Bloody Oranges
This self-conscious comedy from French director Jean-Christophe Meurisse is a curiosity. Bloody Oranges switches aspect ratios, utilises stripped-down…
By Ben Flanagan
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The Divide (La Fracture)
Parisian couple Raf (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) and Julie (Marina Foïs) are facing separation after ten years together. Having…
By Selina Sondermann
Cannes
Mothering Sunday: “One of the most poignant dramas about wartime loss”
Screening in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes is Eva Husson’s Mothering Sunday, starring Odessa Young, Josh…
By Emma Kiely
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Stillwater
One of the biggest head-scratchers at this year’s Cannes is Tom McCarthy’s Stillwater, starring Matt Damon. The actor…
By Emma Kiely
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Olga
With Olga, director Elie Grappe hasn’t quite delivered his magnum opus, which is perfectly understandable, since it’s his…
By Oliver Johnston
Cannes
Benedetta: “A film in a limbo, unable to make a mark”
Paul Verhoeven has done it again. As with his infamous box-office bomb Showgirls, Benedetta had the prerequisites for…
By Selina Sondermann
Cannes
La Civil
After a teenage girl (Denisse Azpilcueta) is abducted by the cartel in Northern Mexico, Cielo (Arcelia Ramirez) launches…
By Dan Meier