Written and directed by David Michôd, The Rover played as part of the Midnight Screening in Cannes. The drama, starring Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson as the main leads, is set in dystopian Australia, when western civilization has failed and crime is of daily occurrence…
Xavier Dolan, the 25-year old French-Canadian director, has an impressive Cannes history for such a young filmmaker. His critically acclaimed first feature I Killed My Mother premiered in 2009 in the “Quinzaine des réalisateurs” section of the Cannes Film Festival. He then returned the following year with his second film Heartbeats and celebrated the Cannes…
Prior to this 67th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, this is what the history books might’ve read under Dardenne brothers: ‘The very definition of a staple of the festival, the duo have been gracing the seaside town’s scarlet carpet with clockwork reliability since winning the Palme with Rosetta in 1999. Yet perhaps more striking than the frequency of their appearances…
Ryan Gosling’s debut feature received pretty controversial reactions by polarizing the audiences at Cannes. Lost River, previously known under its working title How to Catch a Monster, was written, directed and produced by actor and director Gosling. It is quite obvious that he was visually and thematically inspired or influenced by surrealist art-house directors…
The feature directorial debut of July Jung, who used to be a short-film producer until then, premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of this year’s Festival de Cannes. A Girl at my Door is a Korean social drama, heavy with various forms of abuse including alcoholism, physical and mental violence as well as accusations of molestation. Despite these negative…
The title of the Argentinian-Spanish co-production (including the Almodóvar brothers) “Relatos Salvajes” that translates to Wild Tales could not be more appropriate and fitting since the feature competing for the Palme d’Or is as wild as it can get. Written and directed by Damián Szifrón, Wild Tales consists of six self-contained stories connected through the common…
The first out of three Canadian features in the official selection of the Competition had its premiere on the Croisette today. Atom Egoyan, a Cannes regular who already won awards for Exotica in 1994 and The Sweet Hereafter in 1997, returns with a thriller starring Ryan Reynolds and Mireille Enos in the lead. By reading the synopsis or watching the trailer of the film, one…
After winning the Best Director award for Naked in 1993 and being awarded with the Palme d’Or for Secrets & Lies in 1996, Mike Leigh returns to the Croisette with his biopic Mr. Turner, a film about the revolutionary British painter J.M.W Turner. Mostly known for his dramatic marine and landscape paintings, Turner was one of the leading artists of Romanticism and a
Olivier Dahan’s Grace of Monaco already caused quite some controversy even before it was officially released as the opening film of the Festival on Wednesday night. Not only did the Royal family of Monaco describe the film as a “farce” long before its release in Cannes, Dahan and distributor Harvey Weinstein had an ongoing heated discussion about the film’s final cut. Once…