Critics Week
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Cannes 2025
Cannes 2025 (Critics’ Week): Imago | Interview with Déni Oumar Pitsaev
“To build a house that cannot be destroyed." We interviewed Chechen director Déni Oumar Pitsaev who won L’Oeil d’or, the…
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Cannes 2025
Cannes 2025 (Critics’ Week): Nino (dir. Pauline Loquès) | Review
Théodore Pellerin delivers a remarkable performance as Nino, raggedly heartbreaking as a character whose life is shattered in Pauline Loquès’…
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Cannes 2025
Cannes 2025 (Critics’ Week): Love Letters (dir. Alice Douard) | Review
"Love Letters" is a striking feature debut, presenting love as the shining armor amidst thorny obstacles—elevated by Douard’s visionary direction…
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Cannes 2025
Cannes 2025 (Critics’ Week): A Useful Ghost (dir. Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke) | Review
A vacuum cleaner possessed by a kind spirit gets a death-changing assignment in Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s witty horrormedy infused with sentimental…
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Cannes 2025
Cannes 2025 (Critics’ Week): Adam’s Sake (dir. Laura Wandel) | Review
The 2025 Cannes Critics’ Week Opening Film "Adam's Sake" ("L'intérêt d'Adam") arrives with a heavy battle against morality. Laura Wandel’s…
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Cannes 2025
Cannes 2025 (Critics’ Week): Reedland (dir. Sven Bresser) | Review
Evil lurks deeper in the reed beds. The further the eyes perceive, the darker the anxiety unfolds. Sven Bresser’s "Reedland"…
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Cannes 2024
Cannes 2024 (Critics’ Week): Julie Keeps Quiet (by Leonardo Van Dijl) | Review
This expertly made first feature about a promising tennis player who decides to remain silent when her coach falls under…
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Cannes 2024
Cannes 2024 (Critics’ Week): Locust (by KEFF) | Review
Director KEFF's engrossing and taut directorial debut explores a young man's world turned upside down when political corruption, disloyalty, and…
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Cannes 2024
Cannes 2024 (Critics’ Week): Sauna Day (by Anna Hints & Tushar Prakash) | Review
Estonian filmmaker Anna Hints teams up with the editor of her captivating "Smoke Sauna Sisterhood" (2023) in "Sauna Day," gracefully…
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Cannes 2024
Cannes 2024 (Critics’ Week): Simon of the Mountain (by Federico Luis) | Review
Federico Luis skillfully explores a subtly nuanced coming-of-age tale centered on the disabled community in his insightful and finely crafted…
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