More than 60 hours of rushes of Agnes Varda’s 2000 documentary feature The Gleaners and I will now be available for the next generation of international filmmakers thanks to a new educational initiative from France’s National Audiovisual Institute (INA) and Ciné-Tamaris (Agnès Varda's company run by her daughter Rosalie Varda). The five-year project offers students a bilingual platform available 24/7 where they can view and download the complete collecti...
By Moira Sullivan
Top prizes for Un Certain Regard were announced tonite at Cannes. Best film went to Les Pires - "The Worst Ones" directed by Lise Akoka & Romane Gueret (France). The film concerns a film shooting in Picasso, a suburb of Boulogne-sur-mer in north France. Four teenagers are chosen to play in the film. and everyone in the neighborhood is surprised: why only take the “worst ones?
Jury prize went to the first Pakistani film to screen at ...
Fallen Leaves directed by Aki Kaurismaki is a fourth trilogy on Beauty and love in this world, a brief encounter kept simple. Aki sets his colours and two actors against a glow of crimson and offers green and white asparagus tips, the perfect companiment to “Un Vin mousseuz, un tout petit verre, ca s’appetite un aperitif”.
There is love and there is comedy, and pride in hard work and very funny Trap (the Finnish translation for Alma’s character). Jussi plays his role w...
The film stars Sandra Hüller as a writer trying to prove her innocence in her husband's death. The film had its world premiere at the 76th Cannes Film Festival on 21 May 2023, where it competed for the Palme d'Or and the Queer Palm, and won the Palm Dog Award.
Sketched by Nesta Morgan during the press conference
Nesta's sketchbooks are full of the character and environment settings of both cinema and literary worlds, they are an origin...
Omen (Augure), the first feature film by Belgian-Congolese musician and actor Baloji, won the “New Voice” prize in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival. The film screened May 22 stood out from the crowd of films in this section as something special with a rich visual language previously experienced in Baloji's music videos and heard in his electrifying four part symphonic masterpiece, the soundtrack for Augure.
This sumptuous directorial debu...
Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro Incorporate story expressed by engagement with language. Truth, Freedom and Who didn’t do or create earnest prayer. Behind the humour is work.
Nesta
Nesta's sketchbooks are full of the character and environment settings of both cinema and literary worlds, they are an original storyboard collection of festival travel sketches, with pen and paper.
Nesta's Sketch Collection commenced in 2007 covering The Berlinale Tale...
Production designer Chris Oddy built the garden set in Auschwitz as location for The Cannes festival film in competition, Zone of Interest. Director Jonathan Glazer strikes calm on set by his and the crew’s organised absence, leaving the cinematography to unfold with no lights and only cameras placed to surround the performance of the cast. Sandra Huller and Christian Friedel are dressed to perform their roles in costumes that are spoken of as super present by the costume designer Malgor...
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Focused on arthouse, artistically daring films, the 2023 Un Certain Regard selection has included 20 feature films – 8 of which are first features also competing for the Caméra d’or. This year, the opening film was Thomas...
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Focused on arthouse, artistically daring films, the 2023 Un Certain Regard selection has included 20 feature films – 8 of which are first features also competing for the Caméra d’or. This year, the opening film was Thomas...
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Nuri Ceylan's About Dry Grasses becomes a frontrunner in the main competition of Cannes Film Festival 2023 after a unanimous positive reception. And with the Turkish director known for his philosophical yet intriguing stories, viewers expected nothing less from About Dry Grasses.
In a cold town in Anatolia where it is either an extremely cold winter or dry summer, Samet leads a boring life with dreams of moving to Istanbul for some excite...
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The Short Films and La Cinef Jury presided by Ildikó Enyedi and comprised of Ana Lily Amirpour, Shlomi Elkabetz, Charlotte Le Bon and Karidja Touré has awarded the 2023 La Cinef...
Marco Bellocchio's dramatic narrative Rapito (Kidnapped) premiered at Cannes where the award winning and esteemed Italian director spoke about why he chose the project about a Jewish boy kidnapped by the Papal states in 1858. Baptised Catholic by a servant, after failed attempts to convince the boy's parents to raise him as a Christian, Edgardo is kidnapped by the Inquisitor of the Holy Office Pier Gaetano Feletti (Fabrizio Gifuni) for Pope Pius IX (Paolo Pierobon...
Wes Andersson's Asteroid City premiered at Cannes to a standing ovation on May 23 at the the Grand Théatre Lumière. Featuring an ensemble cast shot during August and October 2021, the film is set in 1955 where 3070 years ago an asteroid fell to earth in the US southwest desert populated by saguara and mesas. To commemorate this landing, Asteroid City is home to the national Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention attended by parents and students on annua...
Premiering at the renowned Cannes Film Festival, Jessica Hausner's "Club Zero" presents a unique concept but fails to fully deliver on its potential. This manipulation-focused film explores the theme of conscious eating through the perspective of Miss Novak (Mia Wasikowska) a teacher who joins an internation boarding school to instruct a conscious eating class, advocating for the idea that eating less is synonymous with being healthy. However, despite the intriguing premi...
La Passion De Dodin Bouffant (In Competition) by Hung Tran Anh
Premiering 6:30pm Grand Theatre Llumière
Il Sol Dell'Avvenire (In Competition) by Nanni Moretti
Premiering 10:00pm Grand Theatre Llumière
L'Amour et Les Forets (Cannes Premiere) by Valérie Donzelli
Premiering 8:00PM Debussy Theatre
Kennedy (Séance De Minuit) by Anurag Kashyap
Premiering 12:15am Grand Theatre Llumière
Hopeless (Un certain Regard) by Cha...
"The Idol" by Sam Levinson is a gripping and thought-provoking exploration of modern society's obsession with celebrity culture and the consequences it has on both individuals and society as a whole. Levinson's direction is bold and audacious, utilizing a mix of intense visuals, sharp dialogue, and a pulsating soundtrack to create an immersive cinematic experience.
The film follows the journey of a young aspiring actress who becomes entangled in the ruthless...
Aki Kaurismaki's new film Fallen Leaves is a comedy in a world he feels has very little left of humanity. He wastes no time to not give his opinion about other filmmakers or even his own films that he never sees -- all except Chaplin who he says is the best due to his simplicity. That sums up the Finnish director whose simple responses to questions about the world, other filmmakers and his own work is deadpan humor of the highest order. And in subtle ways he explains aspects of ...
Cate Blanchett was a good sport starting her 'Women in Motion Kering Talk' May 20 at Cannes after the hosts cleared away boisterous photographers yelling her name out like on a photo shoot. Cate went on to talk about her role as a producer with Coco Francini in their production company "Dirty Films" .
The Kering Talks was founded by Kering CEO François-Henri Pinault in 2015, husband to Salma Hayek Pinault. It was first thought to be a networking forum...
Banel & Adama by Ramata - Toulaye Sy is in the offficial competition. The press conference was not full of journalists for a debut film by a young director raised in France who chose to film in Senegal - but what a surprise to hear what she had to say. Ramata - Toulaye Sy explained that she just didn't show up yesterday with her film and has gone to film school and worked really hard to be at Cannes.
The Franco-Senegalese wri...
Premiering yesterday at the 76th Cannes Film Festival, Tae Gon Kim's "Project Silence" proves to be an exhilarating and gripping addition to the Korean thriller genre. With its compelling narrative, deft direction, and powerhouse performances, this film delivers a thrilling experience that keeps audiences on the edge of their seats while exploring the darker aspects of internal politics
"Project Silence" takes us on a relentless journey into the lif...
A pair of former hired-gunslingers in the Old West reconnects after working together more than 25 years earlier. However, it soon becomes clear that the reason for their meeting is not strictly friendly or coincidental.
Almodóvar combines Wester's style and LGBTQ+'s theme. So we have a fun mixing short movie about two pistoleros ex lovers. One became sherif ( Ethan Hawke ) and the other is trying to protect his son from the law ( Pedro Pascal ). Pedro Al...
Monia Chokri is a superb actress who has made her mark as a director on three films. Her visual sensibility and meticulousness earned her the admiration of the Un Certain Regard Jury in 2019, for La Femme de mon frère (A Brother’s Love). Today, she is presenting Simple comme Sylvain (The Nature of Love) which follows the torments of Sophia, a philosophy teacher. She has been in a relationship for ten years but falls in love at first sight when she meets Syl...
In his first feature film, Felipe Gálvez focuses on a hidden aspect of his country’s history, The Invisibility of Chilean Indigenous populations. Brought to the screen for the first time, In Selection by Un Certain Regard. Los Colonos (The Settlers), a historical thriller co-written with Antonia Girardi, lifts the veil on the genocide of native people at the beginning of the 20th century in Chilean Patagonia.
Few ...
