I’m a German based passionate film lover with main interests in contemporary, arthouse and independent cinema. I love the cinematic experience on screen, unconventional storytelling and getting carried away by it. Besides film, I am also interested in general pop culture and addicted to way too many TV shows I never seem to be able to catch up on.
The second and only other animated feature that screened in Cannes in an out-of-competition slot besides Inside Out was the first ever animated adaptation of one of the most beloved children’s books directed by Mark Osborne: The Little Prince. The timeless story by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry about an aviator who meets a small prince and learns about his…
The new Pixar animation film Inside Out had its world premiere in an out-of-competition slot at the Cannes Film Festival and opened to rave reviews. Directors Peter Docter and Ronaldo Del Carmen take their audience on a spectacular trip inside the mind of an 11 year-old girl who struggles when having to move away from her Minnesota home because of her…
Editor’s Note: The following capsule reviews are part of our coverage of the 2015 Cannes Film…
Youth is directed by Paolo Sorrentino and marks his second English-language film after This must be the Place. The visually beautiful and thematically sophisticated drama tells the story of Fred (Michael Caine), a retired composer-conductor and Mick (Harvey Keitel), an ambitious director, who spend their vacation in a Swiss spa on the foothills of the…
One of the most anticipated films of this year’s Competition – that also lived up to its expectations – includes Todd Haynes’s lesbian love-story Carol, an adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel The Price of Salt by screenwriter Phyllos Nagy. When the novel got first published in 1952, Highsmith used an alias because of its daring subject matter at that time…
Yorgos Lanthimos returns to the Croisette after winning the Un Certain Regard prize for his bizarre feature Dogtooth back in 2009. This year the Greek director moves up in the ranks of the festival by competing for the Palme d’Or with his star-studded English-language dystopian love story The Lobster that can also ironically be described as a satire of our…
Natalie Portman’s directorial debut A Tale of Love and Darkness screened as a Special Screening during the Cannes Film Festival, giving her the opportunity to promote this first film at the festival outside the competition unlike her actor-turned-director fellow Ryan Gosling, whose debut feature Lost River screened in last year’s Un Certain Regard and received mixed and harsh reviews…
As a German, I have obviously come across the widespread fact that we are not the funniest people (thanks for pointing that out again, Kathleen Madigan) and that we are unable to understand or at least fully “get” humor and therefore have been the butt of many jokes, but then again, who am I to tell?…
With Clouds of Sils Maria, the Official Competition featured another film that can be described as a backstage drama, looking behind the scenes of the film business through the eyes of the aging Hollywood actress Maria Enders (Juliette Binoche) and her personal assistant Val (Kristen Stewart). Twenty years after her breakthrough role in “Maloja Snake”, a film based on a…
Once upon a time, there was a young girl who believed in the power of kindness, fell in love and married her Prince Charming and lived happily ever after. Based on Charles Perrault’s French fairy tale Cendrillon, ou la Petite Pantoufle de verre, the timeless and much-loved story of Cinderella finds its way…