All articles by Fionnuala Halligan – Page 8
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Comment
Comment: our chief film critic’s five key takeaways from Cannes 75
Screen reviewed every title in Official Selection, Directors’ Fortnight and Critics’ Week.
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Reviews
‘The Natural History Of Destruction’: Cannes Review
Sergei Loznitsa’s seventh archival doc is an intense, conscience-stirring work
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‘Moonage Daydream’: Cannes Review
Brett Morgen takes a sensory voyage through David Bowie’s estate in this dizzying doc
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‘Crimes Of The Future’: Cannes Review
Blending body horror and climate change, this future of body alteration is ‘pure, essential Cronenberg’
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‘Holy Spider’: Cannes Review
A spate of murders in the holy city of Mashhad is at the heart of Ali Abbasi’s arresting Iranian noir
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‘Pamfir’: Cannes Review
A bold and brave story of a family man at the mercy of small town corruption
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‘War Pony’: Cannes Reviews
Riley Keough makes her co-directorial debut with this measured look at life on a Native American reservation
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‘Aftersun’: Cannes Review
A daughter tries to piece together a childhood trip to Turkey with her father in Charlotte Wells’ promising debut
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‘The Stranger’: Cannes Review
Joel Edgerton’s brooding performance anchors this intense Australian true crime thriller
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'One Fine Morning’: Cannes Review
Léa Seydoux is luminous in Mia Hansen-Løve’s intimate drama about loss and love
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‘God’s Creatures’: Cannes Review
Emily Watson puts in a commanding performance in this trad rural Irish mother-son drama
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Features
22 films to look out for at the Cannes Film Festival
Screen’s reviews editor and chief critic Fionnuala Halligan has picked out a few of the stand-out titles from this year’s line-up.
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Reviews
‘Men’: Cannes Review
Alex Garland’s outrageous rural horror is a disorientating and roundly unpredictable piece
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‘Downton Abbey: A New Era’: Review
The tearjerker reunion of this increasingly creaky cast goes beyond vanilla viewing
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News
7 key takeaways from the Cannes 2022 line-up
An intriguing Competition; the return of Hollywood; and familiar gender balance complaints.
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Comment
Comment: Cannes takes a stand by selecting Russian and Ukrainian filmmakers
The festival has programmed titles by both Russian filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov and Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa.
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Reviews
‘The Northman’: Review
Robert Eggers’ gore-soaked assault on Scandinavian legend goes full-out gonzo
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Features
“For us, this was the last straw”: film critic describes her last day in war-torn Ukraine
Ukrainian film critic Natalia Serebryakova was attending the Berlin Film Festival in February.
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Reviews
‘All The Old Knives’: Review
Thandiwe Newton and Chris Pine star as former spies and lovers in Janus Metz’s cat-and-mouse thriller
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News
Rebel, ratings and no-shows: seven talking points from the Baftas
The major prizes were spread out and the return to a live event was welcome – but how well did it pay off?