The main difference that sets the Cannes Film Festival apart from other fests is the anticipation: you want to see the films debuting in the competition, especially if they are directed by the likes of the Coen brothers, Alexander Payne, Roman Polanski, and Asghar Farhadi, to name four. Few shots in the dark here. There […]
Written & Directed by Rama Burshtein Produced by Assaf Amir Released by Sony Pictures Classics Hebrew with English subtitles Israel. 90 min. Rated PG With Hadas Yaron, Hila Feldman, Irit Sheleg, Renana Raz, Razia Israeli & Yiftach Klein Fill the Void feels like a folk tale set in a rural village. These folk dress and […]
Directed by Margarethe von Trotta Produced by Bettina Brokemper & Johannes Rexin Written by Pamela Katz & von Trotta Released by Zeitgeist Films English & German with English subtitles Germany. 113 min. Not rated With Barbara Sukowa, Axel Milberg, Janet McTeer, Julia Jentsch, Ulrich Noethen, Klaus Pohl, Nicolas Woodeson & Michael Degen Hannah Arendt humanizes […]
Written & Directed by Alice Winocour Produced by Isabelle Madelaine, Emilie Tisné, Michèle & Laurent Pétin Released by Music Box Films France. 102 min. Not Rated French with English subtitles With Vincent Lindon, Soko, Chiara Mastroianni, Olivier Rabourdin, & Roxane Duran Augustine is the third film in as many years about real 19th/early 20th century […]
Directed by Ben Wheatley Produced by Nira Park, Claire Jones & Andy Starke Written by Alice Lowe & Steve Oram Released by IFC Films UK. 88 min. Not rated With Alice Lowe, Steve Oram & Eileen Davies After a career directing TV, Ben Wheatley made his first feature Down Terrace (2009), an understated comedy about a […]
Directed by Jean François Laguionie Produced by Eric Jacquot Written by Anik Le Ray Released Gkids France. 76 min. Not rated The Painting begins with the image of an empty picture frame that expands to fill the screen. It’s a succinct statement of the film to follow, which has all the charm and depth of […]
Directed by Susanne Bier Written by Anders Thomas Jensen, based on a story by Bier & Jensen Produced by Sisse Graum Jorgensen & Vibeke Windelov; Released by Sony Pictures Classics Danish, English & Italian with English subtitles Denmark/Sweden/Italy/France/Germany. 110 min. Rated R With Pierce Brosnan, Trine Dyrholm, Molly Blixt Egelind, Sebastian Jessen, Paprika Steen, Kim […]
Written & Directed by Tanner King Barklow & Gil Kofman Produced by Francis Krow Released by Seventh Art Releasing/Antidote Films USA/China. 90 min. Not rated Unmade in China tells a story that is both entertaining and unsurprising, tracking the trials and tribulations of Gil Kofman, an American director (The Memory Thief) trying to make a […]
Written & Directed by Ron Morales Produced by Rebecca Lundgren Released by Alamo Drafthouse Films Tagalog with English subtitles Philippines. 84 min. Not rated With Arnold Reyes, Menggie Corabarrubias, Dido de la Paz, Leon Miguel, Ella Guevara, Marife Necesito & Patricia Ona Gayond Marlon Villar (Arnold Reyes) is caught between the many responsibilities he has […]