Cannes
AuroraWednesday, 07 November 2012
Three hours is a testing length for any film. Directors may stretch to that because they’re telling a huge story with plenty of plots and characters, but in Aurora, Romania's Cristi Puiu pares down plot, such as it is, to an absolute minimum.... Read more... |
ElenaThursday, 25 October 2012
Elena is a story of two households, two families each unhappy in their own ways. Linking them is the title character (played by Nadezhda Markina, outstanding in a screen role that could have been written for her) who moves between two very different... Read more... |
Cannes 2012: Haneke wins the Palme d'OrSunday, 27 May 2012Michael Haneke has won his second Palme d’Or in three years, with Amour. The moving portrait of an octogenarian couple whose comfortable life is turned upside down as the woman becomes terminally ill was widely tipped for the top prize here.The... Read more... |
Cannes 2012: A dog's life on the roadSunday, 27 May 2012
Sightseers is the third film by the young British director Ben Wheatley and the first that might be deemed a comedy; that said, as befits the man who made Down Terrace and Kill List, it is a decidedly twisted one.Chris (Steve Oram) and Tina (Alice... Read more... |
Cannes 2012: Cronenberg's CosmopolisSaturday, 26 May 2012
It’s quite a coincidence when two of the competition films in Cannes take place almost entirely within a stretch limousine. Then again, considering that the movie stars here travel the most ridiculously short distances in such vehicles, it’s... Read more... |
Cannes 2012: Making a killing on the Côte d'AzurThursday, 24 May 2012
The last time that actor Brad Pitt and New Zealand director Andrew Dominik teamed up it was for the epic and elegiac western The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Their new one, in competition in Cannes, couldn’t be more... Read more... |
Cannes 2012: Festival falls in love with LoveMonday, 21 May 2012
Michael Haneke likes to challenge and provoke us, whether it’s with intellectual puzzles (Hidden), bleak character studies (The Piano Teacher) or a brand of horror that makes us feel uneasily complicit (Funny Games). He’s a brilliant director, and a... Read more... |
Cannes 2012: Sleeper hits and big-name bombsSunday, 20 May 2012
It’s a normal day in Cannes, which means that I’ve just chatted to Mexican heart-throb Gael García Bernal on the beach, while a mini sand storm battered the doors of our marquee. Bernal is in town with his new film, No, about the events leading... Read more... |
Cannes 2012: Tim Roth – the Brit in the hot seatFriday, 18 May 2012
It's a real pleasure to see Tim Roth strutting his stuff in Cannes, on screen and off. Roth knows the place well, having been here as an actor in Pulp Fiction, and as the director of The War Zone. This year he’s president of the jury for the un... Read more... |
Cannes 2012: French master turns up the temperatureThursday, 17 May 2012
The first full day of Cannes started with a cracker, appropriately by a Frenchman and one of my favourite contemporary directors, Jacques Audiard. Rust and Bone features a love story between a woman who’s had her legs bitten off by a killer whale... Read more... |
Cannes 2012: Heavyweights on La CroisetteWednesday, 16 May 2012
The 65th edition of the Festival de Cannes opens today, with Wes Anderson’s latest slice of leftfield whimsy, Moonrise Kingdom, and continues for almost two weeks of frantic film-going, star-spotting, wheeler-dealing and beach partying. For these... Read more... |
Thai Film Takes the Top Prize in CannesSunday, 23 May 2010
At last, some good news for this beleaguered country: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, by the Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, took the Palme D'Or in Cannes tonight. Hailed as one of the most striking and unusual films in... Read more... |
