"Screening out of competition, Woody Allen's latest film You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger added some welcome levity amid the festival's myriad screenings involving murder, hostage standoffs, self
The first Romanian realist film in Un Certain Regard (we strain to avoid any cheap “new wave” categorization) is Radu Muntean’s absolutely and completely respectfully straightforward Tuesday, After Christmas
French actor Mathieu Amalric’s fourth feature is an ungainly, but flexible creature. Shot: drawn out one way with the Amalric not just filming but acting as well, fulfilling a by-the-books character
"Age, happiness and the passing of time are the themes that percolate movingly through Mike Leigh's Another Year, his first film since 2008's punchy, upbeat Happy-Go-Lucky." Dave Calhoun in Time
Photo by Fabrizio Maltese/EF Press/fabriziomaltese.com.
"Tuesday, After Christmas opens with a lengthy, static shot of a man and woman lying naked in bed, spent and happy, utterly comfortable in each other's presence," writes Mike D'Angelo at the AV Club
"Michael Douglas returns as ruthless Wall Street trader Gordon Gekko, out of the joint, enjoying his new celebrity as a semi-recovering dosh addict and still looking to make a deal," writes the
"This joyous French documentary proved a worthy opener to the Directors' Fortnight strand at Cannes," writes the Telegraph's David Gritten. "It's about a group of seven Congolese musicians, the
"The Strange Case of Angelica, which met with enthusiastic applause after its first press screening on Thursday, is a gift from a filmmaker who, at 101 years old, is nearly as old as cinema itself
Above: Mimi Branescu (left) in Tuesday, After Christmas. Eyes crammed with images, ears filled to the brim with sound, and the brain jet-lagged, over-tired, over-joyed, and over-wearied—
"As the only Chinese film selected for the official competition section at the Cannes Film Festival that opened Wednesday, Chongqing Blues (Rizhao Chongqing) is based on the story of a father reaching
"Working the same seedy, rumpled cool that he brought to Arnaud Desplechin's Kings and Queen and A Christmas Tale, [Mathieu] Amalric himself anchors [On Tour] as Joachim, a formerly successful