Cannes Film Festival

‘Amour fou’ We begin with Variety‘s Justin Chang: “An event that could hardly be described as a laughing matter somehow yields a dryly amusing and …

‘Wild Tales’ “As the new kid on the Competition block, Argentina’s Damián Szifron wasn’t taking any chances,” writes Mike D’Angelo at the Dissolve. “His Wild …

Gaspard Ulliel as YSL “Even in a contemporary film culture where no idea seems too thin to try twice, the arrival of two Yves Saint …

Guy Pearce and Robert Pattison in ‘The Rover’ David Michôd’s The Rover “could perhaps be labelled dystopian ozbilly noir,” suggests the Guardian‘s Peter Bradshaw: “violent, …

‘Winter Sleep’ “Nuri Bilge Ceylan is at the peak of his powers with Winter Sleep, a richly engrossing and ravishingly beautiful magnum opus that surely …

‘The Blue Room’ “Mathieu Amalric, an actor with the charm of an elf and the eyes of a rodent, caught the pundits by surprise when …

‘Catch Me Daddy’ Catch Me Daddy has premiered in this year’s Directors’ Fortnight, and so far, the critical reception’s looking pretty good. “Here is a …

‘The Captive’ “Aggressively stupid when it’s not downright illogical, it is hard to imagine a film less deserving for a competition slot at this year’s …

‘FLA’ Djinn Carrenard’s FLA has opened this year’s Critics’ Week and, as Ben Kenigsberg explains at RogerEbert.com, the title “stands for ‘faire l’amour’ (‘to make …

Maayan Turgeman in ‘That Lovely Girl’ “Coming from Camera d’Or-winning Israeli filmmaker Keren Yedaya (who took home the trophy in 2004 for Or), [That Lovely …