All posts tagged "cannes"
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120 BPM – Review *****
It seems that it is not just American filmmakers right now who are turning to the past in order to interrogate the present. However, unlike...
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AVA – Review ****
Director Léa Mysius’s feature debut, Ava, has been on an awards roll. After winning best SACD Feature at Cannes and being nominated for the first...
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Loveless – Review *****
The title of Andrey Zvyagintsev’s new film could possibly refer to two things; the country that he so adoringly yet fatalistically photographs as a backdrop...
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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...