Cannes 2014: ‘Winter Sleep’ wins Palme d’Or
Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan this evening won Cannes’ top prize, the coveted Palme d’Or, for his latest film, Winter Sleep. A worthy award winner after […]
Cannes 2014: ‘White God’ review
★★☆☆☆ The recently crowned winner of the Un Certain Regard prize at this year’s Cannes is Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó’s sixth feature, White God (2014), […]
Cannes 2014: ‘Spartacus & Cassandra’ review
★★★★☆ A real gem hidden deep in the Cannes’ ACID sidebar, Spartacus & Cassandra (2014) follows two Roma children in France coming to terms with […]
Cannes 2014: ‘Snow in Paradise’ review
★★☆☆☆ Showing in the Un Certain Regard sidebar at Cannes, film editor Andrew Hulme’s directorial debut, Snow in Paradise (2014), is a brave attempt to […]
Cannes 2014: ‘Jauja’ review
★★★☆☆ Viggo Mortensen takes a leisurely stroll through South American arthouse territory in Lisandro Alonso’s oddly compelling peculiarity Jauja (2014). From a screenplay by poet […]
Cannes 2014: ‘Charlie’s Country’ review
★★★☆☆ When Aborigine actor, dancer and activist David Gulpipil was just sixteen he starred in Nicolas Roeg’s masterful Walkabout (1971), accompanying the director and his […]
Cannes 2014: ‘Jimmy’s Hall’ review
★★☆☆☆ Veteran British director Ken Loach makes what could to be his narrative curtain call with Irish political period piece Jimmy’s Hall (2014), which premièred […]
Cannes 2014: ‘Tu dors Nicole’ review
★★★☆☆ If one Nicole caught headlines earlier in the festival at the Palais with Olivier Dahan’s much-maligned bioflop Grace of Monaco (2014), better notices should […]
Cannes 2014: ‘The Search’ review
★★☆☆☆ “This isn’t Saving Private Ryan,” a Russian soldier remarks to camera as one of his comrades films the aftermath of a battle and an […]
Cannes 2014: ‘Beautiful Youth’ review
★★☆☆☆ Screening in the Un Certain Regard sidebar at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Jaime Rosales’ Beautiful Youth (2014) aspires to a gritty realism but […]
Cannes 2014: ‘Two Days, One Night’ review
★★★☆☆ With an unprecedented third Palme d’Or firmly in the brothers’ sights, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne return to the Croisette this year with a tale […]
Cannes 2014: ‘The Salvation’ review
★★★☆☆ Cannes has had a good run with westerns this year. Not just Tommy Lee Jones’ quasi-feminist The Homesman, but also the western aspirations of […]
Cannes 2014: ‘The Rover’ review
★★★★☆ Australian director David Michôd made quite the impression with his outstanding first feature, 2010’s Animal Kingdom, so expectations were understandably high for his follow-up, […]
Cannes 2014: ‘Cold in July’ review
★★☆☆☆ It seems fitting that the UK rebirth of Icon Film Distribution – whose final release before an impromptu hiatus was Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive […]
Cannes 2014: ‘The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby’ review
★★☆☆☆ Appearing in the Un Certain Regard sidebar at Cannes in a shortened version of the film previously screened at Toronto, Ned Benson’s The Disappearance […]
Cannes 2014: ‘Maps to the Stars’ review
★★★★☆ A brutal, crackling and savage Hollywood satire, Maps to the Stars (2014) is also David Cronenberg’s return to the monster movie almost thirty years […]
Cannes 2014: ‘The Wonders’ review
★★★★☆ Competing for the Palme d’Or at the 67th Cannes Film Festival, Italian director Alice Rohrwacher’s sophomore feature, The Wonders (2014), is a gripping coming-of-age […]
Cannes 2014: ‘Insecure’ review
★★☆☆☆ Adèle Exarchopoulos’ return to Cannes following Blue Is the Warmest Colour’s Palme d’Or win might be the headline from Marianne Tardieu’s French thriller Insecure […]