Cannes Film Festival 2019: Day 4
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2019: Day 4
Cannes Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival: Sorry We Missed You (2019)
★★★★☆
Sorry We Missed You is another powerful, moving and important film from Ken Loach and his longtime collaborator and screenwriter Paul Laverty.
Cannes Film Festival: Sorry We Missed You (2019)
Sorry We Missed you is a coruscating anti-capitalist manifesto from veteran politically engaged filmmaker Ken Loach and his longtime collaborator and screenwriter Paul Laverty.
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Cannes Film Festival: Atlantiques (Atlantics) (2019)
★★★★☆
Atlantics (Atlantiques) is Mati Diop’s dreamlike feature debut focusing on the women left behind when Senegalese migrant workers take to the seas.
Cannes Film Festival: Bacurau (2019)
★★★★☆
Bacurau by Kleber Mendonça Filho is an exhilarating mixture of genres – political satire, western, science fiction – underpinned by savage political and social comment. It’s a blast.
Cannes Film Festival 2019: Day 2
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Cannes Film Festival Day 2
Cannes Film Festival 2019: Day 1
★★★★☆
Opening Film Cannes Premiere – an ubercool deadpan zombie horror comedy by Jim Jarmusch that never quite come alive.
Madeline’s Madeline (2018)
★★★★☆
Josephine Decker’s Madeline’s Madeline is a fragmented collage in image and sound of impressions – a disorientating, passionate welter of dreams, fantasy and reality – that tries to get inside the conflicted head of a 16-year-old aspiring actress.
Woman at War (2018)
★★★★☆
Woman at War ((Kona fer í stríð) by Benedikt Erlingsson is an environmental drama and a whimsical mid-life-crisis comedy.
Ash is Purest White (2018)
★★★★★
The exquisite Ash Is Purest White by Jia Zhang Ke, starring Tao Zhao in an extraordinary performance, follows the lives of its characters against the background of a rapidly transforming China.
Donbass (2018)
★★★★★
In Donbass Sergei Loznitsa’s anger at the war in eastern Ukraine pours out like red-hot lava in 13 episodes of a vicious cycle of dark comedy, absurdity, brutality and horror.
Happy as Lazzaro (2018) (Lazzaro felice)
★★★★☆
Happy as Lazzaro by Alice Rohrwacher is a magical-realist fable that features types of exploitation.
3 Faces (2018)
★★★★☆
3 Faces is Jafar Panahi’s fourth film since receiving a 30-year ban on filmmaking (or leaving Iran). It’s an involving, compelling, deeply ingrained criticism of the society it quietly observes.
Under the Silver Lake (2018)
★★★☆☆
Under the Silver Lake is David Robert Mitchell’s dreamlike, rationality-transcending contemporary noir, starring Andrew Garfield.