All Reviews articles – Page 13
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Reviews‘All Of A Sudden’ review: Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto form a magnetic connection in Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s rich Paris drama
The film marks the third time that Hamaguchi has played in Cannes Competition
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Reviews‘The Blow’ review: Raw, affecting French debut explores the fault lines in a troubled family
Julien Gaspar-Oliveri’s Critics’ Week title stars Diego Murgia and Romane Fringeli
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Reviews‘Congo Boy’ review: Central African Republic debut is a warm, humane portrait of survival
Rafiki Fariala draws on his own experiences as a Congolese refugee for this authentic Un Certain Regard title
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Reviews‘Atonement’ review: Involving, balanced US-Iraq war drama stars a magnetic Hiam Abbass
Boyd Holbrook and Kenneth Branagh also star in Reed Van Dyk’s Directors’ Fortnight debut
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Reviews‘The Diary Of A Chambermaid’ review: Radu Jude adapts the 1900 novel into a biting commentary on the modern class divide
Melanie Thierry, Vincent Macaigne and Ana Dumitrascu star in the Romanian director’s restrained Directors’ Fortnight title
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Reviews‘A Girl Unknown’ review: Assured, controlled debut traces an adopted girl’s journey through China
Zou Jing’s Critics’ Week premiere features an impressive performance from Resurrection star Li Gengxi
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Reviews‘Species’ review: Astute, extreme French body horror explores the pressures of modern life
Marion Le Corroller’s unflinching debut bows in Cannes Midnight
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Reviews‘Marie Madeleine’ review: Haiti-set drama finds grace in the tension between sexuality and faith
Gessica Geneus follows debut Freda with a sensual, socially-grounded tale of belief, repression and change
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Reviews‘Parallel Tales’ review: Asghar Farhadi drama is convoluted, superficial musing on the interplay between fact and fiction
Farhadi’s French language Cannes Competition title stars Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira and Vincent Cassel
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Reviews‘Fatherland’ review: Sandra Hüller and Hanns Zischler command Pawel Pawlikowski’s finely-honed literary drama
Black-and-white Cannes Competition title follows Nobel-winning author Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika
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Reviews‘The Meltdown’ review: Distinctive drama sees a young girl lose her innocence in post-Pinochet Chile
Manuela Martelli second feature bows in Cannes Un Certain Regard
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Reviews‘Words Of Love’ review: Hafsia Herzi stars in energetic, lighthearted French family drama
Rudi Rosenberg’s Un Certain Regard title follows a young girl’s attempts to connect with her absent father
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Reviews‘Gabin’ review: Delicate, absorbing doc follows 10 years in the life of a boy in rural France
Maxence Voiseux’s debut documentary premieres in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight
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Reviews‘Alive’ review: Actress-filmmaker Aina Clotet’s grounded debut channels personal and global anxiety
Clotet’s Critics’ Week title delivers a controlled study of illness, impulse and the fear of time running out
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Reviews‘Forsaken’ review: Docudrama about 2020 murder of a French schoolteacher is uneasy retelling of a national trauma
Vincent Garenq’s exploration of the Samuel Paty murder combines careful reconstruction with more heavy-handed flourishes
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Reviews‘Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma’ review: Fear and desire are potent bedfellows in Jane Schoenbrun’s twisty satire
Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson star in Schoenbrun’s follow-up to ‘I Saw The TV Glow’
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Reviews‘A Woman’s Life’ review: A dynamic Lea Drucker fuels Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s restrained mid-life drama
Bourgeois-Tacquet’s follow up to ‘Anais In Love’ debuts in Cannes Competition
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Reviews‘Ashes’ review: Diego Luna directs a quiet exploration of the Mexican immigrant experience
Luna’s fourth directorial feature stars an impressive Anna Diaz and premieres as a Cannes Special Screening
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Reviews‘Nagi Notes’ review: A stranger unsettles a rural Japanese community in Koji Fukada’s subdued drama
Fukada’s Cannes Competition premiere stars Shizuka Ishibash and Takako Matsu
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Reviews‘Butterfly Jam’ review: Barry Keoghan, Riley Keough and Harry Melling star in unconvincing Cannes Directors’ Fortnight opener
Kantemir Balagov follows ‘Closeness’ and ‘Beanpole’ with drama set in New Jersey’s Circassian community