Tag: cannesfilmfestival
Cannes 2026 Interview: TITANIC OCEAN Director Konstantina Kotzamani on How Personal Experience Inspired Her Dreamlike Debut
Bringing a flash of neon colour to the 79th Cannes Film Festival this year, Greek director Konstantina Kotzamani’s feature debut Titanic Ocean premiered in Un Certain Regard at the festival. Inspired by the Japanese aquarium industry and the Greek myth...
Cannes 2026 Review: THE ELECTRIC KISS (La Vénus Électrique), Gallic Comedy Parodying Spirit Possession
Anaïs Demoustier, Pio Marmaï, and Gilles Lelouche star in the French romantic movie.
Cannes 2026: Kicking Off
To paraphrase Shakespeare *, some attend Cannes, some yearn to attend Cannes, and some watch Cannes selections months or years later. I have been in the third camp all my life, but I remain eager to see what films are...
Cannes 2025 Review: NOUVELLE VAGUE Knows It Shouldn't Exist
Richard Linklater and co. go walking, talking, and exploring with the Cahiers crew.
Cannes 2025 Review: DEATH DOES NOT EXIST, Existential Angst in Animated Feature
Directed by Félix Dufour-Laperriére, the Canadian-French film deals with a hefty subject in an unique and intriguing way.
Cannes 2024 Wrap: What We Saw, Liked, and Loved
From May 14-25, 2024, the center of our genre-film loving world moved to the south of France, where the Cannes Festival unveiled a broad and diverse selection of films from around the world. Our own contributors Martin Tsai, Eric Ortiz...
Cannes 2024 Review: THE SHROUDS Contemplates Necrophiliac Possibilities of Digital Afterlife
David Cronenberg doesn't get introspective with his most personal film.
Cannes 2024 Review: THE BALCONETTES Paints a Portrait of Modern Ladies on Fire
Women get bloody man trouble in French comedy horror.
Cannes 2024 Review: THE SURFER Rides the Wave of Nicolas Cage Gonzo Midnight Flicks
The actor-producer undergoes another full meltdown in captivating Australia-set curio.
Cannes 2023 Review: THE OTHER LAURENS, Deadpan Belgian Neo-Noir with Visual Flair
Olivier Rabourdin and Louise Leroy star; Claude Schmitz directed.
Cannes 2023 Review: CREATURA, Frightening Female Sexuality
Director Elena Martîn Gimeno gives a committed, bracing performance in her film, without sensationalizing its subject.
Busan 2022 Review: NEXT SOHEE, Bae Doona Shines in July Jung's Memorable Slowburn
Good things come to those who wait, and so it is with Next Sohee, the blunt and powerful new film from director July Jung, which bowed at the Cannes Film Festival this spring, following eight years after her sensational debut,...
Cannes 2020: Festival Officially Cancels Physical Edition, Unveils Other Plans
The Cannes Film Festival has officially canceled its physical edition for 2020. Originally scheduled to begin this week, those plans were halted in March due to the global pandemic, with the hope that the festival could still be held at...
Review: PARASITE Burrows in Deep, but You Won't Want it Out
For every Host, there must be a Parasite. Since his debut Barking Dogs Never Bite 19 years ago, Bong Joon-ho's works have always resisted easy classification. Within stories that stray from one genre to the next, surprising things tend to...
Cannes 2019 Review: THE GANGSTER, THE COP, THE DEVIL, Ma Dong-seok Pummels His Way through Rip-Roaring Korean Thriller
The gangster drama and serial killer thriller join hands and chow down on steroids in the by-the-numbers but thoroughly enjoyable and gleefully violent Cannes midnight selection The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil. Burly Korean leading man and future MCU actor...
Cannes 2017 Review: THE MERCILESS Punches Up Familiar Gangster Tale
After helming a low-key music drama (The Beat Goes On) and a romantic comedy (Whatcha Wearin'?), director Byun Sung-hyun finally shows off what may be his true colors in the brash and confident half gangster thriller, half prison drama The...
PATERSON Trailer Premiere: Jim Jarmusch's lyrical drama is transporting
Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson, a lyrical drama that pivots around a bus driver who moonlights as a poet, looks uniquely intriguing even from his earlier works; which, if you think about it, is only the filmmaker being consistent. In the case...
First RAW Clips Give Us Something to Chew On
One of the standout films at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival was Julia Ducaurnau's French campus, coming of age cannibal flick, Raw. The assured and unflinching debut had viewers scrambling for the exits to go off and write good things about...
Cannes 2016 Review: TRAIN TO BUSAN, A Zombie Thrillride With Social Bite
For his live-action debut Train to Busan, indie animation director Yeon Sang-ho, whose films The King of Pigs and The Fake have drawn international acclaim, has taken the zombie thriller, stuck it into the claustrophobic confines of a train, and...
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Na Hong-jin's Blistering Thriller THE WAILING Gets US Trailer And Release Date
Ahead of its premiere this month at the Cannes Film Festival, Na Hong-jin's The Wailing, his follow-up to The Chaser and The Yellow Sea, has been picked up for North American distribution by Well Go USA, which just launched the...
