Revoir Paris (Paris Memories) | Cannes Film Festival 2022
By Kent Turner May 29, 2022
It took 10 days to find this personal favorite at this year’s festival.
It took 10 days to find this personal favorite at this year’s festival.
The most entertaining and slick genre film at Cannes, and among the few in this year’s competition where a woman really held all the cards.
The most audacious, funniest, and unpredictable work seen at this year’s festival.
Director Charlotte Wells has struck gold with her young discovery, Frankie Corio, who delivered one of the best and most lived-in performances in the festival’s entire lineup.
Few movies can be as topical right now as Happening. It plunges us back to the rotten old days when there were almost zero options out of an unwanted pregnancy.
Part of the movie’s punch can be chalked up to the sheer audacity of its titular character: a monster of self-absorption, flighty, rude, and prone to oversharing and interrupting.
A deadpan depiction of a fallen society, in which the seismic effects of war for years have yielded lawlessness and chaos.
An engaging, if familiar, cinematic bonbon that owes its appeal to Catherine Frot’s winning performance and its unusual subject, the rarified world of rose breeding and flower competitions. Oh, for the revival of Odorama!
Kate Dolan’s ability to create maximum tension with a minimal budget and scant practical effects marks her as a director to watch.