Festival reviews – Page 23
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‘The Story Of Souleyman’: Cannes Review
A Guinean asylum seeker tries to work the gig economy on the streets of Paris in this propulsive drama
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‘Elementary’: Cannes Review
Claire Simon profiles daily life in a French elementary school in this charming documentary
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‘The Shrouds’: Cannes Review
A grieving man invents a way to stay close to his dead wife in David Cronenberg’s lumbering Competition entry
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‘The Other Way Around’: Cannes Review
Jonas Trueba’s first film in Cannes follows a young Spanish couple who decide to celebrate their break-up
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‘Ernest Cole, Lost And Found’: Cannes Review
Raoul Peck explores the life and work of exiled South African protest photographer Ernest Cole
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‘The Apprentice’: Cannes Review
Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong impress in Ali Abbasi’s otherwise lacklustre Donald Trump origin story
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‘Santosh’: Cannes Review
A female police officer takes on a controversial case in this probing Indian police procedural
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‘Block Pass’: Cannes Review
Two teenage boys navigate small-town life in this Critics’ Week debut from the director of TV’s ’Le Bureau’
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‘The Kingdom’: Cannes Review
A teenage girl finds herself at the frontline of a Corsican mob war in this muscular Un Certain Regard debut
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‘Mongrel’: Cannes Review
An undocumented Thai man works as a caregiver in this sobering Directors Fortnight debut set in Taiwan
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‘The Substance’: Cannes Review
Demi Moore plays an ageing actress who goes to extreme measures in Coralie Fargeat’s bracing body horror
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‘Horizon: An American Saga’: Cannes Review
The first part of Kevin Costner’s over-stuffed Western epic rides into Cannes
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‘Limonov: The Ballad’: Cannes Review
Ben Whishaw commits to the part of the eternally dissident Soviet writer Eduard Limonov in Kirill Serebrennikov’s Competition entry
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‘The Falling Sky’: Cannes Review
Singular, uncompromising documentary details the threat posed to the Indigenous tribes of Brazil
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‘My Sunshine’: Cannes Review
A heartwarming Japanese drama about young friendships cuts much deeper than it initially promises
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‘Sister Midnight’: Cannes Review
Radhika Apte is sensational as a newly-married woman who discovers her wild side in this dark Mumbai-set comedy
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‘Blue Sun Palace’: Cannes Review
‘Superb’ Critics Week debut explores the precariousness of New York’s Chinese community
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‘Dog On Trial’: Cannes Review
Laetitia Dosch directs and stars in this Swiss legal comedy with more bark than bite
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‘Rumours’: Cannes Review
Cate Blanchett and Alicia Vikander in this G7 summit-set pulp horror co-directed by Guy Maddin
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‘Eephus’: Cannes Review
Two local, middle-aged baseball teams play one final game in this poignant slice of Americana