CANNES 2022

Holy Spider

Dec 7, 2022 | CANNES 2022, Festivals, International Oscars 2024, Spotlight

Ali Abbasi’s Iranian-set noir, based on a real serial killer of prostitutes, explores the social and religious culture that is often used as an excuse for violence against women.

Nostalgia

Dec 7, 2022 | CANNES 2022, Festivals, International Oscars 2024

Mario Martone directs an emotional terror tour through Baroque, Camorra-ridden Naples, where actor Pierfrancesco Favino has a rendezvous with destiny.

Domingo and the Mist

Dec 6, 2022 | CANNES 2022, Festivals, International Oscars 2024

In Costa Rica’s Oscar entry, magic realism meets environmental degradation in the austere tale of a widower’s resistance against ruthless developers.

Along with the shiny gold button given to badge-holders celebrating Cannes’ 75th glorious anniversary, this year’s festival can justly be hailed as a return to normality after the Covid-19 pandemic canceled it in 2020 and severely truncated it in 2021. Whether it’s...

Sick Of Myself

Jun 3, 2022 | CANNES 2022, Festivals, Spotlight

With a deft hand for black comedy, Norwegian director Kristoffer Borgli takes his examination of modern narcissism to its body-horror extreme.

Cannes 2022: The Awards

Jun 3, 2022 | CANNES 2022, Festivals

Palme d'Or TRIANGLE OF SADNESS directed by Ruben ÖSTLUNDGrand Prix (jointly awarded) CLOSE directed by Lukas DHONTSTARS AT NOON directed by Claire DENISBest Director PARK Chan-wook for DECISION TO LEAVE Best Screenplay Tarik SALEH for BOY FROM HEAVEN Jury Prize...

The Worst Ones

Jun 3, 2022 | CANNES 2022, Festivals

Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret’s film is a solid debut indebted to the impressive performances of its child actors.

War Pony

Jun 2, 2022 | CANNES 2022, Festivals

WINNER OF THE CAMERA D’OR IN CANNES FOR BEST FIRST FILM. ‘War Pony’, from first-time directing duo Riley Keough and Gina Gammell, deeply immerses the viewer in the roughshod coming-of-age drama of two teenage boys who live on the fringes of the law on a Native American reservation in South Dakota.

Mariupolis 2

Jun 2, 2022 | CANNES 2022, Festivals, Spotlight

Lithuanian filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravi?ius was killed by Russian soldiers after shooting footage for this gritty and unnerving documentary about life in the besieged, bombed-out Ukrainian city of Mariupol.

99 Moons

Jun 2, 2022 | Cannes, CANNES 2022, Cannes 2022, Festivals

Sex and love don’t always make for ideal bedmates, and the strain one places on the other is at the heart of Swiss writer-director Jan Gassmann’s latest feature, 99 Moons. Provocative but also thought-provoking, this story of a couple that meets through a Tinder-like...