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Fatih Akin’s ‘In The Fade’ Starring Diane Kruger A Lacklustre Courtroom Drama [Cannes Review]

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Shedding the excruciating profundities that turned him into a critical target after 2014's “The Cut,” Fatih Akin has returned to the more intimate narratives that made two of his earlier (and greatest) films, "...

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Loading up Brian De Palma, David Cronenberg and Roman Polanski on three jukebox machines, and pressing play on all at the same time while running around the room with his pants down, Francois Ozon serves up “L’...

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Like an endless, 200-degree Fahrenheit fever dream, Sergei Loznitsa’s “A Gentle Creature” disorients your frame of mind with the force of a thousand demons shredding it apart. In systematic and cinematically da...

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The day after the massive celebrity-filled 70th anniversary party at the Cannes Film Festival, Oscar-winning director Alfonso Cuarón strode into the Buñuel amphitheater at the Palais de Festival to give a Maste...

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A woman pleads “Open the door!!” in a tiny corridor, banging away with her fist and head. Such is the frenetic opening scene of Léonor Serraille’s “Jeune Femme” — the story of Paula as played by an unforgettabl...

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While “Twin Peaks” may be stealing some of the Cannes Film Festival’s spotlight since this weekend's premiere of the new season (the first two episodes of the series screen this week), there's still lots of tal...

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Speak of Korean cinema outside art-house circles, and the conversation will inevitably revolve around the kooky, provocatively intelligent genre-benders from the likes of Park Chan-wook and Bong Joon-ho. The mo...

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A hodgepodge of genres is splattered all over John Cameron Mitchell’s ludicrous (and ludicrously-titled) “How To Talk to Girls at Parties,” making for an incredibly brazen, outlandish, and totally bananas time ...
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Shutting the blinds on the warmth that shined through his previous critically-lauded opus "Amour," Austrian arthouse maestro Michael Haneke is back to doing what he does best: peeling the decadent, bourgeois la...

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May 21, 2017 10:49 am
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Michel Hazanavicius (director of the breezy Best Picture Oscar winner “The Artist”) returns to Cannes and takes on legendary French New Wave film icon Jean-Luc Godard in his latest film, “Redoubtable” — bold mo...

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May 21, 2017 9:25 am
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In the thickets of the art-house, a wonderful cinematic universe has blossomed, one that doesn’t involve Marvel superheroes. Expanding his 2014 award-winning short into a full-length feature, “A Ciambra” sees J...
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‘120 Beats Per Minute’ Is An Urgent & Riveting AIDS Activism Drama [Cannes Review]

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May 20, 2017 8:44 am
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Sweat and dust particles mesh in a dance club over a crowd of young 20-somethings, sizzling with energy on the dancefloor, carefree and bursting with joie de vivre. Then, as only cinema can, a microscopic zoom ...

Kornél Mundruczó’s ‘Jupiter’s Moon’ Undoes Good Intentions With Heavy-Handed Symbolism [Cannes Review]

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May 19, 2017 1:13 pm
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As visually arresting as Kornél Mundruczó’s latest film “Jupiter’s Moon” undoubtedly is, it remains too intellectually imprisoned within its own allegorical confines to make a truly positive impact. Not 30 minu...

Jeanne Balibar Shines In Mathieu Amalric’s Messy & Incoherent ‘Barbara’ [Cannes Review]

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May 19, 2017 8:38 am
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The ever prolific Mathieu Amalric, with his bulbous eyes that tempt to twitch at any given second, and frazzled, half-cracked smiles, is a brilliantly neurotic actor. It’s what makes watching him on screen so u...

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