All posts tagged "cannes"
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RAW – Review ****
Things are looking yummy for director Julia Ducournau. A few years after her short Junior won the Small Golden Rail at Cannes, her first feature,...
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Toni Erdmann – Review *****
“Not only does German humour exist, it might just save your life!” reads one of the review soundbites on the poster for Toni Erdmann. As...
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Louder than Bombs – Review **
There’s something about female war photographers that seems to attract Norwegian filmmakers. In 2013, Erik Poppe gave us the brilliant A Thousand Times Goodnight, mostly...
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Love – Review ***
Forget about love, said Lars von Trier a couple of years ago with Nymphomaniac. Not so fast, says Gaspar Noé and his new film, provocatively...
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Alles Wird Gut (Everything Will be Okay) – Review ****
Short films are (mostly) very easy to watch, but they are hard creatures to get right. Director Patrick Vollrath has been trying his hand at...
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Macbeth – Review ***
Australian director Justin Kurzel rose to notoriety with his first feature Snowtown. Based on the true story of a series of grisly murders, it has...
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Mia Madre – Review ***
Mia Madre is a meta-tale of modern loss. A partly autobiographical depiction of director Nanni Moretti dealing with the loss of his mother during the...
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The Tribe – Review *
Hell is full of good intentions. And yes, I am fully aware of the general critical acclaim for Miroslav Slaboshpitsky’s The Tribe. An acclaim that...
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Venus in Fur – Review ★★★★
Roman Polanski’s Carnage (2011) was a case of either love or hate. Critically acclaimed, it transforms an argument between four people inside one room into...
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Fruitvale Station – Review ★★★★
‘Fruitvale Station’ is based on the true story of Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old man who was shot and killed by police at the Oakland, California,...