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Festival reviews – Page 5
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Reviews‘A Magnificent Life’ review: Sylvain Chomet animates the life of Marcel Pagnol
’Triplets of Belleville’ director presents presents a rose-tinted view of the writer/director
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Reviews‘Pillion’ review: Alexander Skarsgard and Harry Melling star in frank British debut
Writer/director Harry Lighton sensitively explores a submissive gay relationship
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Reviews‘Orwell: 2+2=5’ review: Raoul Peck links the writer, thinker and activist to the Orwellian present day
Peck’s wide-ranging, cluttered film is several documentaries in one
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Reviews‘No One Will Know’ review: A Parisian bar plays host to a looping crime thriller
Vincent Maël Cardona’s follow-up to ’Magnetic Beasts’ plays as a Cannes Midnight screening
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Reviews‘Die, My Love’ review: Jennifer Lawrence sparks Lynne Ramsay’s portrait of a troubled marriage
Robert Pattinson also stars in Ramsay’s unnerving Competition entry about new parents under extreme stress
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Reviews‘Dangerous Animals’ review: Sean Byrne’s Australian sharksploitation lacks real bite
Jai Courtney and Hassie Harrison star in this messy genre mash-up
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Reviews‘Nouvelle Vague’ review: Richard Linklater dramatises the making of Godard’s ‘Breathless’
Black-and-white French-language homage stars Guillaume Marbeck as legendary director Jean-Luc Godard
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Reviews‘Renoir’ review: A grieving 11-year-old retreats into fantasy in 1980s Tokyo
Chie Hayakawa’s elegant second feature plays Cannes Competition
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Reviews‘I Only Rest In The Storm’ review: Pedro Pinho visits neo-colonialism in Guinea-Bissau
A Portuguese engineer becomes embroiled with two locals while working in Guinea-Bissa
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Reviews‘Love Letters’ review: Drama charts lesbian couple’s rocky road to parenthood in 2014 France
Alice Douard’s confident feature debut stars Mona Rumpf and Monia Chokri
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Reviews‘A Useful Ghost’ review: A haunted vacuum cleaner collides with Thailand’s recent past
This deadpan Thai comedy-drama takes big risks and comes out swinging
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Reviews‘Mirrors No. 3’ review: Rich study of trauma and grief unfolds in the German countryside
Christian Petzold’s fourth collaboration with actor Paula Beer is small but mighty
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Reviews‘Urchin’ review: Harris Dickinson directs an elevated study of addiction
British actor-turned-filmmaker bows in Un Certain Regard
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Reviews‘Wild Foxes’ review: Samuel Kircher lands a punch in school boxing drama
Kircher headlines Valery Carnoy’s thoughtful Directors’ Fortnight debut
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Reviews‘The Wave’ review: Sebastian Lelio's ambitious feminist musical is set to Chile’s university strikes
Ambitious project set during the 2018 protests is an over-reach for the Oscar-winning director
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Reviews‘The Chronology Of Water’ review: Kristen Stewart’s debut is an intense deep-dive into the life of a troubled artist
Length and repetition undermines a fiery film anchored by Imogen Poots
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Reviews‘Sons Of The Neon Night’ review: With no expense spared, Juno Mak constructs an alternate 1990s Hong Kong
The actor/director’s tricky, long-awaited follow-up to ‘Rigor Mortis’ bows in Cannes’ Midnight strand
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Reviews‘Bono: Stories Of Surrender’ review: U2’s Bono looks back in energetic solo show
Andrew Dominik turns Bono’s 2022 stage tour into an immersive performance for Apple
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Reviews‘Eddington’ review: Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal face off in Ari Aster’s wan satire
Pandemic-era Competition title falls short in its attempts to skewer right-wing American ideology
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Reviews‘The Little Sister’ review: Hafsia Herzi explores identity and faith in coming-of-age story
The film adaptation of the award-winning novel The Last One premieres in Cannes’s Main Competition