Cannes 2012. Top Picks
Daniel KasmanA rough ordering of my most (and least) favorite films in Cannes 2012.
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Cannes 2012. Kôji Wakamatsu's "11/25 The Day Mishima Chose His Fate"
Daniel KasmanKôji Wakamatsu continues his look at Japanese history with a micro-biopic on the passion of Yukio Mishima.
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Cannes 2012. David Cronenberg's "Cosmopolis"
Daniel KasmanIn adapting Don DeLillo’s novel, Cronenberg continues A Dangerous Method’s talky abstraction, here seeing the end of the world as theory.
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Cannes 2012. Films by Takashi Miike, Leos Carax, Jaime Rosales
Daniel KasmanThree standous: a school musical brawl film by Miike, an episodic, shapeshifting nightcrawl by Carax, and fragments of grief from Rosales.
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Cannes 2012. Alain Resnais' "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet"
Daniel KasmanAlain Resnais returns to the play between theater, cinema and life in his new film.
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Cannes 2012. Abbas Kiarostami's "Like Someone in Love"
Daniel KasmanAbbas Kiarostami shoots a movie in Japan and the result is the strangest, most mysterious film playing in Cannes.
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Cannes 2012. Hong Sang-soo's "In Another Country"
Daniel KasmanIsabelle Huppert collaborates with Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo in his latest film.
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Cannes 2012. Raúl Ruiz's "La Noche de enfrente"
Daniel KasmanSupposedly the final film for the Chilean master—and a rare Chilean production too—sees a man preparing for retirement and his death.
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Cannes 2012. Darezhan Omirbaev's "Student"
Daniel KasmanKazakh master Darezhan Omirbaev continues adapting Russian literature—after Chekhov and Tolstoy—with a moving, pared Crime and Punishment.
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Cannes 2012. Ulrich Seidl's "Paradise: Love"
Daniel KasmanThe first part in a trilogy of films on “paradise” by Austrian director Ulrich Siedl. Love focuses on sex tourism in Kenya.
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Cannes 2012. Apichatpong Weerasethakul's "Mekong Hotel"
Daniel KasmanA small feature film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul imaginatively uses minor means to unite strands of documentary and fiction.
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Cannes 2012. Yousry Nasrallah's "After the Battle"
Daniel KasmanEgyptian director Yousry Nasrallah ambitiously engages with the complexity of stories and storytelling surrounding the Egyptian revolution.
