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26/05/2019
Cannes 2019: Sibyl review
★★★☆☆ Movies love certain professions and psychotherapy is certainly one. They have to listen to people’s problems while (usually) maskingContinue Reading
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26/05/2019
Cannes 2019: The Climb review
★★★★☆ A revelation on a bike ride in France leads to a rift between two childhood friends, but through thickContinue Reading
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25/05/2019
Cannes 2019: Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite wins Palme d’Or
It’s been a vintage edition of the Cannes Film Festival, with many excellent contenders in the competition. The Palme d’OrContinue Reading
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25/05/2019
Cannes 2019: Zombi Child review
★★★☆☆ Bertrand Bonello’s arthouse horror oddity Zombi Child works best as a film about colonial trauma and the tragic historyContinue Reading
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23/05/2019
Cannes 2019: Oh Mercy! review
★★☆☆☆ It’s time Cannes called a moratorium on screening the films of French director Arnaud Desplechin until he can comeContinue Reading
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23/05/2019
Cannes 2019: Parasite review
★★★★★ Families on the lower end of the pay scale have proven fertile ground for filmmakers at Cannes of late,Continue Reading
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22/05/2019
Cannes 2019: Frankie review
★★☆☆☆ A family assemble for a vacation in Portugal and to confront a looming loss in Ira Sachs’ gentle talkathon, Frankie.Continue Reading
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21/05/2019
Cannes 2019: Young Ahmed review
★★★★☆ Going in cold, the Dardenne brothers appearing to tackle the subject of radical Islam and a vulnerable boy fallingContinue Reading
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21/05/2019
Cannes 2019: Portrait of a Lady on Fire review
★★★★☆ A highly flammable love affair smoulders in Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Marianne (Noémie Merlant) isContinue Reading
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20/05/2019
Cannes 2019: A Hidden Life review
★★★★★ Authentic being, leaps of faith and mortality haunt every frame of Terrence Malick’s latest opus, A Hidden Life (akaContinue Reading
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19/05/2019
Cannes 2019: The Wild Goose Lake review
★★★★☆ Chinese director Diao Yinan’s first film in five years, The Wild Goose Lake is a gangster flick mainlining onContinue Reading
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19/05/2019
Cannes 2019: Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound review
★★★☆☆ Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound serves as a history lesson and welcome tribute to a crucial elementContinue Reading
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19/05/2019
Cannes 2019: The Cordillera of Dreams review
★★★★☆ Chilean documentarian Patricio Guzmán’s The Cordillera of Dreams caps off an astonishing set of history-focused essay films, beginning withContinue Reading
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19/05/2019
Cannes 2019: The Lighthouse review
★★★★★ There’s something heartening about genius being put in the service of madness. Already this Cannes we’ve seen the exemplarContinue Reading
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18/05/2019
Cannes 2019: Little Joe review
★★★☆☆ Austrian director Jessica Hausner enters the race for this year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes with Little Joe, a modestContinue Reading