Festival reviews – Page 22
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Reviews‘Motel Destino’: Cannes Review
A young hitman hides out in a Brazilian sex hotel in this steamy Competition title from Karim Ainouz
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Reviews‘Jim’s Story’: Cannes Review
Karim Leklou’s bittersweet performance anchors this tale of fatherhood from the Larrieu brothers
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Reviews‘Filmlovers!’: Cannes Review
Arnaud Desplechin celebrates his life-long love of cinema through the experiences of alter-ego protagonist Paul Dedalus
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Reviews‘Grand Tour’: Cannes Review
Miguel Gomes transposes the traditional European grand tour narrative to Asia for his experimental Competition entry
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Reviews‘Being Maria’: Cannes Review
Anamaria Vartolomei impresses as Last Tango In Paris star Maria Schneider in Jessica Palud’s sensitive biopic
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Reviews‘The Brink Of Dreams’: Cannes Review
An all-female Egyptian street theatre troupe act out their frustrations in this appealing Critics Week documentary
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Reviews‘An Ordinary Case’: Cannes Review
Daniel Auteuil directs and stars as a lawyer defending a murder case in this by-the-numbers French legal drama
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Reviews‘Viet And Nam’: Cannes Review
Two gay Vietnamese miners face an uncertain future in Truong Minh Quy’s delicate drama
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Reviews‘Animale’: Cannes Review
Emma Benestan directs an atmospheric genre hybrid set in a French bull-riding community
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Reviews‘I, The Executioner’: Cannes Review
Ryoo Seung-wan delivers a weighty action sequel to 2015’s blockbuster Veteran
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Reviews‘To A Land Unknown’: Cannes Review
Two Palestinian refugees are stranded in Athens in Mahdi Fleifel’s raw, resonant drama
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Reviews‘September Says’: Cannes Review
Ariane Labed goes behind the lens to direct this affecting study of adolescence playing in Un Certain Regard
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Reviews‘Parthenope’: Cannes Review
Paolo Sorrentino returns to Naples for this problematic tale of the eponymous young beauty
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Reviews‘Marcello Mio’: Cannes Review
Chiara Mastroianni transforms into her father Marcello in this self-reflexive confection from Christophe Honore
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Reviews‘East Of Noon’: Cannes Review
Surrealist-tinged Egyptian fable is Hala Elkoussy’s distinctive follow-up to ‘Cactus Flower’
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Reviews‘Eat The Night’: Cannes Review
Three French teens juggle edgy real-life with gaming fantasy in this disappointing thriller from the ‘Jessica Forever’ team
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Reviews‘The Village Next To Paradise’: Cannes Review
A family attempts to follow their dreams on the coast of Somalia in this Un Certain Regard debut
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Reviews‘Baby’: Cannes Review
A young man abandoned by his parents turns to sex work on the streets of Sao Paolo in this upbeat Critics Week title
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Reviews‘Misericordia’: Cannes Review
Alain Guiraudie returns to Cannes with a philosophical digression disguised as a French rural melodrama