
Cannes Film Festival 2018: Day 1
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Cannes Film Festival 2018
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Cannes Film Festival 2018
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Cannes Film Festival 2018
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John Cameron Mitchell’s How To Talk To Girls At Parties is an unlikely mash-up of punk and aliens in the British suburbs.
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Cannes Film Festival 2018.
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Andrew Haigh’s Lean on Pete is coming-of-age road movie grounded in the all-American setting of quarter-horse racing.
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Michael Pearce’s assured feature debut Beast is a clever, feral psychological horror that constantly surprises.
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The Wound (Inxeba) by John Trengove stars Nakhane Touré in a tense drama of gay male sexuality brought into focus by the traditional Xhosa circumcision rite of passage.
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Funny Cow showcases Maxine Peake’s versatility when she stars as a ground-breaking female comedian surviving in the misogynistic Seventies.
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Juliette Binoche stars in a rom-com departure for Claire Denis in Let the Sunshine In (Un Beau Soleil Interior).
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The first ever Festival of Commonwealth film is on 14 and 15 April at the British Library, London.
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The captivating German/Bulgarian culture clash in Valeska Grisebach’s Western could only happen in the EU and it’s subversive.
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Savage satire by Sergei Loznitsa in A Gentle Creature eviscerates contemporary Russia.
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A film adapted from his stage play, Thoroughbreds is Corey Finley’s directorial debut. It’s a stylised teen thriller/black comedy of well-plotted cross and double-cross with two amoral central characters.
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In Wonderstruck Todd Haynes opens a cabinet of cinematic wonders as two deaf children’s stories interlink 50 years apart in the magic of New York.