"This genre-bending high-school thriller-drama about three students who go missing at a French lycee opens like a teen B-movie, but soon moves into more intriguing territory," writes Lee Marshall
Todos vós sodes capitáns (Oliver Laxe, Spain) Another simple one: I like the title. The film is about children learning to make movies, and then having that project canceled and going out from the
"French riot police thronged the Croisette this weekend during the premiere of the Algerian epic Outside the Law," reports Charles Ealy for the Austin Movie Blog. "People attending the Cannes Film
"Beyond eXistenZ filmmaker David Cronenberg, has there ever been a filmmaker able to mine worthwhile ideas from the unsteady relationship between reality and the virtual kind?" asks Aaron Hillis
"In 1971," begins Melissa Anderson for Artforum, "about twenty miles northeast of Cannes, the Rolling Stones began recording their first double album, Exile on Main Street, in the basement of Nellcôte
Poetry (Lee Chang-dong, South Korea) Films about artists or someone creating art are incredibly difficult to pull off. It has something to do with audience verification–if we
MUBI and Cisco, maker of the Flip Video Camcorder, have teamed up to encourage Short Film Corner directors who've come to Cannes not only to watch films but also to make films with the Cannes à la Flip
I’ve been thinking a lot about Alain Resnais at this festival, not just because his masterpiece Wild Grass played here last year, but simply because I continue to find such strong echoes of his art and
I have admit it up front: I only speak English (which is something of an embarrassment in Cannes, where just about every non-American speaks at least their own language and English). This leads into
"Michelangelo Frammartino's Le Quattro Volte [The Four Times] has won the Europa Cinemas Label as Best European Film in Cannes Directors' Fortnight," reports Wendy Mitchell for Screen. "The jury
Apichatpong Weerasethakul has generated the first truly electric buzz to come out of Cannes this year. Twitter began lighting up all but immediately after the first press screening of Uncle Boonmee
"One of the most purely baffling entries in this year's Competition, Daniele Luchetti's would-be melodrama sets up all the ingredients for a rewarding highbrow soap along the lines of his excellent