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Category Archive: Cannes 2019

Cannes Review: “Little Joe” Offers Modest “Black Mirror” Vibes

Little Joe
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Jessica Hausner’s sci-fi yarn about plants that emit happy drugs doesn’t branch out as widely as one would like.

Matt Cipolla Posted on May 27, 2019July 2, 2020

Cannes Review: “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” Paints a Picture of Incredible Passion

Portrait of a Lady on Fire
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Céline Sciamma’s queer period romance is an intimate visual feast, filled with uncanny empathy and admirable aesthetics.

Matt Cipolla Posted on May 27, 2019July 2, 2020

Cannes Review: Pedro Almodóvar Interrogates the “Pain and Glory” of His Own Career

Pain and Glory
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As self-reflective as it is starkly modernist, Pedro Almodóvar’s latest is navel gazing at its finest.

Matt Cipolla Posted on May 26, 2019July 2, 2020

Cannes Review: “The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil” Delivers Blood-Soaked Korean Action

The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil
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Lee Won-Tae piles on the cheese in this pulpy gangster thriller that rewards mightily, if you’re in the right mood.

Matt Cipolla Posted on May 25, 2019July 2, 2020

Cannes Review: “Once in Trubchevsk” Uses Domestic Conflict as Cultural Wallpaper

Once in Trubchevsk
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Larisa Sadilova’s probing drama highlights small-town Russian culture through an opaque lens.

Matt Cipolla Posted on May 25, 2019August 25, 2019

Cannes Review: “All About Yves” Takes Its Crazy Premise To Banal Limits

All About Yves
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It takes some doing to make a movie about a talking fridge boring, but by gum, Benoît Forgeard’s messy comedy manages to pull it off.

Matt Cipolla Posted on May 25, 2019May 25, 2019

Cannes Review: “Atlantics” Is Grippingly Dense Afrofuturist Romance

Atlantics
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Mati Diop’s expansion of her documentary short is a scifi-tinged genre experiment that admirably swings for the fences, even if it doesn’t land with complete success.

Matt Cipolla Posted on May 24, 2019July 2, 2020

Cannes Review: Ken Loach Dips Back Into the Misery Porn Well With “Sorry We Missed You”

Sorry We Missed You
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Following up I, Daniel Blake with another grim drama about English poverty, Ken Loach spits venom about the dark side of capitalism to mixed results.

Matt Cipolla Posted on May 24, 2019July 2, 2020

Cannes Review: “Oh Mercy!” Fumbles Its Arthouse Murder Mystery

Oh Mercy
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Arnaud Desplechin shifts gears with an all-too-straightforward cop drama mired in cliche.

Matt Cipolla Posted on May 23, 2019July 2, 2020

Cannes Review: Xavier Dolan Returns with the Idiosyncratic “Matthias and Maxime”

Matthias and Maxime
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The off-kilter French-Canadian auteur returns with a resonant if overlong drama that ends just a bit too messily.

Matt Cipolla Posted on May 23, 2019July 2, 2020
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