Updated through 5/21. Salon's Andrew O'Hehir: "One of the first films to be picked up for American distribution out of the main competition here this year has the following qualities: It's French, and
No other time, no other place sees a greater concentration of the world's film journalists than the Cannes Film Festival. If you've got an announcement to make, Cannes is the when and where to make
Gus van Sant attempts to rectify the expressions and evocations of his high-art re-invention, the so-called "death trilogy" (Gerry, Elephant, Last Days), with accessible storytelling in his latest, Restless
Updated through 5/21. "The political and social tension surrounding the recent imprisonment of Mohammad Rasoulof will inevitably influence the way his most recent film, Good Bye, is received at Cannes
Updated through 5/21. "As movie titles go, The Kid with a Bike could hardly be more direct and explicative in its unadorned simplicity," writes David Rooney in the Hollywood Reporter. "Which is a perfect
Updated through 5/20. Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, which opened the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday, already has its own entry, of course (and it's still being updated, too), but it's here that
Updated through 5/20. "An intriguing tale of an ethical dilemma complicated by academic rivalries and family tensions is told in erratic fashion in Footnote," begins Todd McCarthy in the Hollywood Reporter
Alice de Lencquesaing, a touching young presence in year after year of French festival films (see: Summer Hours, Father of My Children), drops in on Maïwenn (Le Besco)'s Polisse and verily
Updated through 5/21. To follow up on yesterday's "Snapshot" from Marie-Pierre Duhamel, a roundup of what, in this case, we might as well refer to as The Raves of Others. "Inspired by the true story
Declaration of War (Valérie Donzelli, France) — Opening Night, Critics' Week It’s a love story, an action and war movie, where fantasy fights against a descent into hell. After
Updated through 5/17. "Arirang, a kind of morbid pseudo-therapy session/confessional from director Kim Ki-duk, is one of those self-indulgent messes only a very talented but screwed up auteur could
Updated through 5/15. "Horror elements are wrapped around the unsurprising notion that management fosters an unequal power distribution with workers in the icy neo-thriller Hard Labor [Trabalahr Cansa