Cannes Film Festival

‘Dheepan’ “Jacques Audiard has made his name, in films such as A Prophet, Rust and Bone and The Beat That My Heart Skipped, for a …

‘Mediterranea’ Jonas Carpignano’s Mediterranea “looks at migrant life from the perspectives of Ayiva (Koudous Seihon) and Abas (Alassane Sy), two friends from Burkina Faso who …

‘Love’ “Gaspar Noé may be the only director in history who could make a two-and-a-quarter-hours-long pornographic film in 3D and then have it legitimately described …

‘The Assassin’ Dispatching back to the New York Times from Cannes, Manohla Dargis reports that “Hou Hsiao-Hsien blew the roof off one of the biggest …

François Truffaut and Alfred Hitchcock “The marathon 1962 interview of Alfred Hitchcock by François Truffaut that became one of the seminal books on filmmaking itself …

‘Youth’ “Paolo Sorrentino’s visual prowess is almost always let down by his scriptwriting,” begins Giovanni Marchini Camia at the Film Stage. “That’s why his only …

‘Mountains May Depart’ We begin with Variety‘s Scott Foundas: “The cinema’s consummate chronicler of a China evolving so rapidly that its own citizens can scarcely …

‘Cemetery of Splendour’ “Apichatpong Weerasethakul‘s quietly incandescent new feature, Cemetery of Splendour, is so serene, so perfectly meditative, that it puts the viewer in precisely …

Emily Blunt in ‘Sicario’ “The violence of the inter-American drug trade has served as the backdrop for any number of films for more than three …

‘Marguerite & Julien’ “This buttock-clenchingly embarrassing movie from director Valérie Donzelli,” begins the Guardian‘s Peter Bradshaw, “is a pre-Revolutionary period drama from the quality end …