More from Leslie Felperin
‘The Most Precious of Cargoes’ Review: Michel Hazanavicius’ Mawkish Animated Holocaust Fable
The French Oscar winner ('The Artist') premiered his latest, about a Jewish baby abandoned in the woods during World War II, in the main Cannes competition.
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‘Armand’ Review: Ingmar Bergman’s Grandson Directs Renate Reinsve as a Mother Defending Her Son in Ambitious School-Set Drama
Writer-director Halfdan Ullmann Tondel makes his feature debut with this contender in Cannes' Un Certain Regard section.
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‘The Shrouds’ Review: Vincent Cassel and Diane Kruger Star in David Cronenberg’s Sincere but Undercooked Sci-Fi Drama
The auteur's latest Cannes competition entry is about a widower businessman who invents a device that allows him to monitor his dead wife.
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‘The Balconettes’ Review: Noemie Merlant’s Genre-Bender About Female Friendship and Sexual Violence Is a Hot Mess
Souheila Yacoub, Sanda Codreanu and Lucas Bravo co-star alongside the director in a movie whose script had collaborative input from Celine Sciamma.
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‘Rumours’ Review: Cate Blanchett and Alicia Vikander Play Clueless World Leaders in Guy Maddin’s Very Funny, Truly Silly Dark Comedy
Canadian directors Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson satirize the ineffectual meagerness of global summits and draft resolutions in their Cannes-premiering romp.
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‘Limonov: The Ballad’ Review: Ben Whishaw in Kirill Serebrennikov’s Perplexing Portrait of a Russian Writer and Dissident
The Cannes competition regular returns with his first English-language (but heavily Russian-accented) effort, about poet-punk-prisoner-gadfly-neo-Fascist Eduard Limonov.
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‘The Invasion’ Review: Sergei Loznitsa’s Doc About Ukrainian Life During Wartime Is Quietly Devastating
The footage observes ordinary citizens and soldiers and folks who are a bit of both trying to get on with things in the few years since Russia crossed the border.
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‘The Surfer’ Review: Nicolas Cage Goes Entertainingly Mad in Fun, Flashy Australian Thriller
Director Lorcan Finnegan's fourth feature revolves around a man whose surfing plans are thwarted by menacing thugs and even more menacing wild animals.
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‘Three Kilometers to the End of the World’ Review: An Overly Tidy Romanian Drama About a Homophobic Hate Crime
Ciprian Chiujdea stars in director Emanuel Parvu's third feature as a young man forced to reveal a secret after he's brutally attacked.
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‘Bird’ Review: Andrea Arnold Switches Up Her Playbook With a Warmhearted Fable Starring Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski
Newcomer Nykiya Adams co-stars as a 12-year-old trying to protect her younger siblings and herself from domestic violence in working-class England.
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‘The Girl With the Needle’ Review: A Dark, Urgently Timely Danish Drama About an Unwanted Pregnancy
The Palme d'Or competitor from Magnus von Horn centers on the vulnerability of pregnant women at a time when abortion was illegal and other options few and far between.
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‘Back to Black’ Review: Flawed but Affecting Amy Winehouse Biopic Benefits From Marisa Abela’s Intensely Physical Performance
Sam Taylor-Johnson's film about the dazzlingly talented English singer who died at age 27 also features Jack O'Connell, Eddie Marsan and Lesley Manville.
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