
Lisa Nesselson
- Reviews
‘Brother And Sister’: Cannes Review
A sterling cast headed by Marion Cotillard and Melvil Poupaud anchor Arnaud Desplechin’s intense sibling saga
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‘The Night Of The 12th’: Cannes Review
Dominik Moll returns to Cannes with this fascinating police procedural
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‘Scarlet’: Cannes Review
Directors’ Fortnight opens with Pietro Marcello’s unusual period semi-musical drama
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‘Notre Dame On Fire’: Review
Jean-Jacques Annaud’s ambitious thriller is a suspenseful recreation of the 2019 Notre Dame cathedral fire
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‘Maigret’: Review
Gerard Depardieu leads an excellent ensemble cast in Patrice Leconte’s take on the classic French detective
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‘Deception’: Cannes Review
Arnaud Desplechin’s French-language adaptation of Philip Roth’s 1990 novel is ’accomplished French filmmaking the way arthouse denizens like it’
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‘Drive My Car’: Cannes Review
Japanese filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi effectively adapts a short story by Haruki Murakami
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‘Good Mother’: Cannes Review
Hafsia Hersi shows her mettle in her second film, set in a Marseilles housing estate
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‘Playground’: Cannes Review
Life in a French primary school is a trauma to be endured in Laura Wandel’s gut-punch debut
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‘Onoda - 10,000 Nights in the Jungle’: Cannes Review
Opening Un Certain Regard, Arthur Harari’s feature follows a Japanese soldier who fights on through the decades
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‘The Gravedigger’s Wife’: Cannes Review
The business of life and death in Dijibouti City forms the basis for this Critics Week title
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‘The Swarm’: Cannes Label Review
Crunchy debut about a locust farm which was set for Cannes Critics Week and bought by Netflix
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‘Last Words’: Cannes Label Review
Jonathan Nossiter enlists a starry cast for his end-of-days misfire
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‘DNA’: San Sebastian Review
Maïwenn’s Cannes Label drama tracks a French-Algerian family after the death of its patriarch
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‘Summer Of 85’: Review
Francois Ozon’s film of an English novel was selected for Cannes and now releases on Bastille Day across France
- Features
What’s it like to go back to the cinema in the Covid era?
Cinemagoers in Tokyo, Copenhagen, Rome, Hong Kong, Seoul, Paris and Barcelona discuss their experiences.
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‘Love Affair(s)’: Cannes 2020 Label Review
Emmanuel Mouret delivers his take on the ‘Unapolagetic French Art Film’
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‘Josep’: Cannes 2020 Label Review
A delicate rendering of how Spanish artist Josep Bartoli escaped a prision camp in France