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.
Three standous: a school musical brawl film by Miike, an episodic, shapeshifting nightcrawl by Carax, and fragments of grief from Rosales.
Alain Resnais returns to the play between theater, cinema and life in his new film.
Abbas Kiarostami shoots a movie in Japan and the result is the strangest, most mysterious film playing in Cannes.
Isabelle Huppert collaborates with Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo in his latest film.
Supposedly the final film for the Chilean master—and a rare Chilean production too—sees a man preparing for retirement and his death.
Kazakh master Darezhan Omirbaev continues adapting Russian literature—after Chekhov and Tolstoy—with a moving, pared Crime and Punishment.
The first part in a trilogy of films on “paradise” by Austrian director Ulrich Siedl. Love focuses on sex tourism in Kenya.
A small feature film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul imaginatively uses minor means to unite strands of documentary and fiction.
Egyptian director Yousry Nasrallah ambitiously engages with the complexity of stories and storytelling surrounding the Egyptian revolution.
The hero attempts to shoot out the sun in Fritz Lang’s The Tiger of Eschnapur.
A report from the retrospective on the Oberhausen Manifesto’s 50th anniversary, at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.
Dario Argento one-ups Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest in his horror classic Suspiria.