Despite all the beautiful water, sun, and half-naked bodies, what I was left with as the credits rolled was a mere trace memory of stylish vacuity.
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Ten favorites from the Cannes Film Festival 2021
This year’s selection included everything from a highly anticipated rock opera to compelling documentaries to an award-winning film featuring a character who lactates motor oil.
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An outsider on the inside of Cannes
Walking the red carpet, breaking VIP barriers, and searching for Bill Murray
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In Shoplifters, the sharpest insights are blurred by sentimentality
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s film about an impoverished makeshift family won the Palme d’Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.
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How Filip Rymsza finally finished Orson Welles’s The Other Side of the Wind
A tale of a novice producer and a legendary film that no one ever thought would ever play in theaters.
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BlacKkKlansman retells the true story of a black cop who joined his local Klan chapter
Spike Lee’s latest is set in 1970, but it’s all about 2018.
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Free will is a bitch in Claude Sautet’s Les Choses de la Vie
Michel Piccoli stars as an emotionally conflicted man rescued from choosing by an awful car crash.
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Okja is a big-screen fantasy you won’t see on the big screen
Bong Joon-ho, creator of The Host and Snowpiercer, bypasses theatrical exhibition for Netflix.
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American Honey is an exercise in radical subjectivity
British director Andrea Arnold challenges viewers to hit the road with a gang of runaway kids.
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In Chronic, a private nurse gets a little too private
Tim Roth stars in this haunting drama from the director of Daniel & Ana.
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Jacques Audiard’s movies are the kind Hollywood should make
The director’s Palme d’Or-winning Dheepan is yet another film that challenges the conventions of both art-house and mainstream cinema.
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Experience Cannes vicariously by reading Roger Ebert’s journal
University of Chicago Press reprints the film critic’s account of the 1987 edition of the festival.
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Mom’s the word in Xavier Dolan’s Tom at the Farm
The Quebecois filmmaker takes another look at maternity in this 2013 drama, finally receiving a limited U.S. release.
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Manuscripts Don’t Burn takes us inside the Iranian police state
Mohammad Rasoulof directed the uncompromising Iranian drama Manuscripts Don’t Burn—which may be his last.
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Blood Ties and Gambit: Two genre films for the grown-ups
Blood Ties and Gambit: two genre films from the “disappearing middle” of American cinema