Critics Week
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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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Fantasia 2023
Fantasia 2023: Vincent Must Die | Interview with Stéphan Castang
We interviewed Stéphan Castang, director of Vincent Must Die, an entertaining horror social satire, playing at the 27th Fantasia Film…
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Cannes 2023
Cannes 2023: Sleep | Review (Critics’ Week)
Jason Yu shows great promise in his sly and absurd genre debut, Sleep, efficiently using a single location with endless…
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Cannes 2023
Cannes 2023: It’s Raining In The House | Interview of Paloma Sermon-Daï (Critics’ Week)
We interviewed Belgian director Paloma Sermon-Daï about the making of her first feature fiction film, It’s Raining In The House,…
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Cannes 2023
Cannes 2023: Tiger Stripes | Interview of Amanda Nell Eu (Critics’ Week)
We were pleased to interview director Amanda Nell Eu about Tiger Stripes, which swept the Grand Prize of the 2023…
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Cannes 2022
Cannes Film Festival 2022: Sons of Ramses | Interview of Karim Leklou
We interviewed actor Karim Leklou who shines in Clément Cogitore’s Sons of Ramses (Goutte d’Or), presented at the 61st Critics’…
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