Cannes Film Festival

Everything We Know About Pedro Almodóvar’s STRANGE WAY OF LIFE
Everything We Know About Pedro Almodóvar’s STRANGE WAY OF LIFE

Strange Way of Life could fulfill all the clichés of the genre, with gunslingers, ranches, and a sheriff, but with a completely different angle.

Cannes Film Festival 2022: Alice Winocour’s PARIS MEMORIES is a Mature Study of Violence and Healing
Cannes Film Festival 2022: Alice Winocour’s PARIS MEMORIES is a Mature Study of Violence and Healing

Paris Memories was the final film I saw at the fest and in its quiet, assured way, was one of the most satisfying.

Cannes 2022: EL AGUA: A Beguiling Mystery in Rural Spain
Cannes Film Festival 2022: EL AGUA: A Beguiling Mystery In Rural Spain

Elena López Riera’s El Agua is a slow, seductive, and assured tale of young love and mysticism in an exquisitely rendered Spanish village.

Cannes Film Festival 2022: Cristian Mungiu Delivers Another Searing Masterpiece With R.M.N.
Cannes Film Festival 2022: Cristian Mungiu Delivers Another Searing Masterpiece With R.M.N.

R.M.N. is the work of an artist with a rare gift for transmogrifying culture, politics, and ideology into human drama.

Cannes Film Festival 2022: CORSAGE Is A Fresh, Fantastic Take On The Suffering Royal Woman Story
Cannes Film Festival 2022: CORSAGE Is A Fresh, Fantastic Take On The Suffering Royal Woman Story

Amidst a sea of dull, insipid, even sadistic takes on the beautiful, suffering royal lady story we’ve seen, Corsage breaks like the sun through the clouds.

“I Reject Your Hypothesis”: A Justified Comment From Quentin Tarantino?

Is Quentin Tarantino just another white male director carelessly contributing to the gender bias in cinema with Once Upon a Time in Hollywood?

ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD: Tarantino's Timeless, Meta Masterpiece Is The Ultimate Ode To Cinema
Cannes Days 9, 10 & 11: Festival Closes With Tarantino & Talking Fridges

In our final Cannes roundup, the team reviews some of the festival’s hotly anticipated films, including the latest by Quentin Tarantino and Xavier Dolan.

Jumping Borders With Bong Joon-ho's Universal Language
Cannes Days 7 & 8: Portraits, Peaches And Vacations In Portugal

In our latest Cannes roundup, the team reviews a variety of films, from Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire to Boon Joon-ho’s latest Parasite.

Cannes Days 5 & 6: Neon Lights, Strobe Lights And Lighthouse Keepers
Cannes Days 5 & 6: Neon Lights, Strobe Lights And Lighthouse Keepers

Alistair Ryder and Gus Edgar report from Cannes Film Festival with reviews of Gaspar Noé’s latest, Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse and more.

Cannes Day 3 & 4: UFOs, Malevolent Plants & Elton John
Cannes Day 3 & 4: UFOs, Malevolent Plants & Elton John

Gus Edgar, Maria Lattila and Alistair Ryder report from Cannes Film Festival 2019 with reviews of Little Joe, First Love, Rocketman, Atlantics and more.

Cannes 2019 Days 1 & 2: The Festival Opens With Zombies, Revolutions & Killer Style
Cannes 2019 Days 1 & 2: The Festival Opens With Zombies, Revolutions & Killer Style

Gus Edgar & Alistair Ryder report from Cannes, with reviews of The Dead Don’t Die, Deerskin, Les Miserables, Bull and A Brother’s Love.

Cannes 2018 Days 7, 8 & 9: A Fantastic Final Few Days

Gus Edgar reports from Cannes Film Festival, where he saw Solo: A Star Wars Story, Lars Von Trier’s The House That Jack Built, and more, and lists the winners of the festival’s Awards.

Cannes 2018 Days 5 & 6: Drugs, Farce & The Best Film Of The Festival So Far
Cannes 2018 Days 5 & 6: Drugs, Farce & The Best Film Of The Festival So Far

On Cannes days 5 & 6, Gus Edgar saw a variety of films, including Gaspar Noe’s Climax, Mandy, and Spike Lee’s latest BlacKKKlansman.

Cannes 2018 Days 3 & 4: Tragic Love, Maternal Love & Mads Mikkelsen
Cannes 2018 Days 3 & 4: Tragic Love, Maternal Love & Mads Mikkelsen

Reporting from Cannes Film Festival, Gus Edgar reviews Eva Husson’s Girls of the Sun, Jean-Luc Godard’s The Image Book, and more.

Cannes 2018 Days 1 & 2: Birds, Wars & LGBT Romances
Cannes 2018 Days 1 & 2: Birds, Wars & LGBT Romances

Gus Edgar reports from Cannes Film Festival and shares some of his first two days in the French Riviera. He reviews Kenyan LGBT film Rafiki, Paul Dano’s directorial debut Wildlife, Colombian film Birds of Passage, and more.