Cannes 2010. Lee Chang-dong's "Poetry"
David Hudson"Korean auteur Lee Chang-dong's quietest and most thematically complete film to date, Poetry charts a grandmother's attempt to write a single poem, while she deals with a failing body and mind
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Cannes 2010. Olivier Assayas's "Carlos"
David Hudson"How good is Olivier Assayas's Carlos?" asks Steven Zeitchik in the Los Angeles Times. It's a rhetorical question. "Think of The Bourne Identity with more substance, or Munich with more of a pulse
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Cannes 2010. Sergei Loznitsa's "My Joy"
David Hudson"The only debut feature presented in competition this year at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival, Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa's My Joy yesterday plunged the press into a totally black world where
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Cannes 2010. Ken Loach's "Route Irish"
David Hudson"Ken Loach's last minute addition to Cannes competition is a hard-edged thriller — his first, in fact, since Hidden Agenda played competition here in 1990 — covering dirty deeds by contractors in
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Cannes 2010. Xavier Beauvois's "Of Gods and Men"
David Hudson"One-time enfant terrible Xavier Beauvois has long been a respected presence on the French scene, making his name with dramas such as Don't Forget You're Going To Die (1995) and the police story
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Cannes 2010. Quentin Dupieux's "Rubber"
David Hudson"Quentin Dupieux's Rubber would have made an absolutely stellar twenty minute short," suggests Todd Brown at Twitch. "Yes, this is really a film about an angry psychic tire. And, yes, it is every
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Cannes 2010. Cam Archer's "Shit Year"
David Hudson"Premiering at the Directors' Fortnight, Shit Year, Cam Archer's second feature (after 2006's mildly experimental gay coming-of-age tale Wild Tigers I Have Known), is more satisfying to say than
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Cannes 2010. Stephen Frears's "Tamara Drewe"
David Hudson"Sassy, slick, slight and speedy, Stephen Frears's Tamara Drewe explores the same territory as Woody Allen's similarly out-of-competition You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger — the heart is capricious
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Cannes 2010. Abbas Kiarostami's "Certified Copy"
David Hudson"The best film so far in this year's Cannes competition, Abbas Kiarostami's first feature made outside Iran is in many ways a departure in terms of style and content, yet at the same time it is
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Cannes 2010. Alejandro González Iñárritu's "Biutiful"
David Hudson"Beneath all the swift camerawork and rapid editing, Alejandro González Iñárritu remains a sentimentalist," writes Anthony Kaufman at IFC.com. "In his latest, Biutiful, a stylized paean to a devoted
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Cannes 2010. Jia Zhangke's "I Wish I Knew"
David Hudson"Like his last film, 2008's 24 City, Jia Zhangke's Un Certain Regard title I Wish I Knew is a documentary/fiction hybrid about modern-day China," begins Matt Noller at the House Next Door. "Where
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Cannes 2010. Jean-Luc Godard's "Film Socialism"
David HudsonCraig Keller has been doing outstanding work in the run-up to the passionately anticipated new film from Jean-Luc Godard, Film Socialism — translating interviews and press materials and keeping the