Festival reviews – Page 27
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Reviews‘The Imaginary’: Annecy Review
Studio Ponoc’s ’appealing, engaging’ anime for Netflix is set in the English countrysde
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Reviews‘Where Elephants Go’: Transilvania Review
A 20-something drifter and a young cancer patient make a connection in this Bucharest-set comedy/drama
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Reviews‘Despicable Me 4’: Annecy Review
Gru’s domestic bliss is shattered by a new arch-nemesis in Illumination’s latest gag-packed caper
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Reviews‘The Colours Within’: Annecy Review
Naoko Yamada’s ’strikingly-lovely’ 2D animation is centred around three high school misfits who decide to form a band
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Reviews‘Ghost Cat Anzu’: Annecy Review
Manga adaptation veers wildly in tone but is always claw-cuttingly sharp
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Reviews‘Savages’: Annecy Review
Claude Barras follows My Life As A Courgette with an eco-animation set in Borneo
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Reviews‘Memoir Of A Snail’: Annecy Review
Oscar-winner Adam Elliot’s tragi-comic claymation is voiced by Sarah Snook and a rogue’s gallery of Australian character voices
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Reviews‘Flow’: Cannes Review
Tour-de-force animation about a cat and his fellow tsunami survivors is an Un Certain Regard standout
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Reviews‘She’s Got No Name’: Cannes Review
Peter Chan delivers a stirring widescreen melodrama set in Shanghai of the 1940s to round out Cannes 2024
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Reviews‘The Most Precious Of Cargoes’: Cannes Review
Michel Hazanavicius’s animated Competition title is set against the backdrop of Holocaust
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Reviews‘The Seed Of The Sacred Fig’: Cannes Review
Mohammad Rasoulof delivers a flawed but urgent exposure of the societal tensions within Iran
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Reviews‘Across The Sea’: Cannes Review
North African exiles in Marseilles search for their future in this decade-spanning drama from Saïd Hamich Benlarbi
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Reviews‘The Count Of Monte-Cristo’: Cannes Review
Pathe follows up the Three Musketeers with another lavish spin of a classic Alexandre Dumas swashbuckler
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Reviews‘All We Imagine As Light’: Cannes Review
Payal Kapadia’s eloquent fiction debut follows three women attempting to find their place in modern Mumbai
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Reviews‘Nasty - More Than Just Tennis’: Cannes Review
Colourful documentary profiles the impact of Romanian player Ilie ‘Nasty’ Nastase on the world of tennis and beyond
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Reviews‘Beating Hearts’: Cannes Review
Adele Exarchopoulos and Francois Civil play teenage lovers reunited in adulthood in Gilles Lellouche’s Competition melodrama
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Reviews‘Niki’: Cannes Review
Charlotte Le Bon embodies French artist Niki de Saint-Phalle in Celine Sallette’s vivid biopic
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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