Cannes Film Festival
From Cannes Film Festival Wilson Kwong reviews Payal Kapadia’s Grand Prix winning All We Imagine as Light and Rúnar Rúnarsson’s When the Light Breaks.
From Cannes Film Festival, Wilson Kwong reviews
Magnus von Horn’s The Girl with the Needle and Agathe Riedinger’s Wild Diamond.
Jonathan Millet’s Ghost Trail and Guan Hu’s Black Dog both tackle serious subject matter with subdued restraint.
It’s truly difficult to qualify the beast of an experience that is Megalopolis, and because of that, there’s an undefinable elegance.
At Canne’s 2024, Film Inquiry reviews Quentin Dupieux’s The Second Act (Le Deuxieme Acte), and Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, is a prime example of how to craft a narrative expansion that ignites a creative spark worthy of praise.
Wilson Kwong dives into two films that are interesting examples of dramatic French cinema with clear commercial appeal.
Delphine Deloget’s social-realist French drama, “All to Play For,” also known as “Nothing to Lose,” premiered at Cannes in 2023.
Légua is a feature with various artistic virtues and moments of stunning visual prowess and a strong tendency toward mood and atmosphere.
Omen is an undeniably beautiful film that is a prime showcase for Baloji’s talents as a visual storyteller.
L’abbe Pierre stuns with incredible, reflective artistry, designing a an exquisite stage Benjamin Lavernhe dominates from start to finish.
Jonathan Glazer has made a film like no other with The Zone of Interest, one that festers in the mind like a disease.
With its gorgeous cinematography and an incredible performance from Mouna Hawa, Inshallah A Boy proves that freedom is in the fight.
Claude Schmitz’s The Other Laurens may not be the most intense thriller at times, its slow-burn mystery will prove itself alluring and transfixing.
There are many reads you could take from Vincent Must Die and how its theme speaks to you will be your own experience.