Tag: Cannes Film Festival 2021

A Tale of Love and Desire

Posted by Jay Weissberg | Sep 2, 2021 | Cannes |

There are so many good ideas in Leyla Bouzid’s second feature A Tale of Love and Desire, so many rarely-addressed issues deserving attention, that it’s especially frustrating how faintly the sparks fly between her two main...

Feathers

Posted by Jay Weissberg | Sep 1, 2021 | Cannes, Featured |

The distinctive vision that Omar El Zohairy brought to his two prize-wining shorts is much in evidence in his meticulously crafted absurdist feature debut Feathers. It’s amusing to imagine how he pitched the project at the...