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Cannes 2013 Review: ‘Miele’ is a Virtuoso Masterpiece From Valeria Golino In...
Miele is directed by Valeria Golino, best known to English-speaking audiences as Topper Harley’s sexy, exotic girlfriend in the popular Hot Shots duology. That description, however, might be a...
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Cannes 2013 Review: ‘Like Father, Like Son’ is a Heartfelt Family Drama and...
Like Father, Like Son is a film almost guaranteed to have gone down well with this year’s head of the In Competition jury, Steven Spielberg, what with its shared focus on riveting drama concerning an...
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Cannes 2013 Review: ‘Stop the Pounding Heart’ Forgets to Include Any
The toxic effects of religious indoctrination have been dutifully exposed in eye-opening documentaries such as Jesus Camp, yet in the gritty and authentic drama Stop the Pounding Heart — the finale in...
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Cannes 2013 Review: ‘Jimmy P.’ is a Solidly Acted Psychological Drama That...
The clunkily titled Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian (aka Jimmy P.) is Arnaud Desplechin‘s first film in a whole five years, though disappointingly proves a shakily uneven return for the...
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Cannes 2013 Review: ‘Grand Central’ is a Beguiling Romance That Will Stick...
Lea Seydoux and Tahar Rahim are unquestionably two darlings of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, taking front and center in two films a piece (the respective others being Blue Is the Warmest Colour...
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Cannes 2013 Review: With ‘Seduced and Abandoned’ James Toback and Alec...
James Toback and Alec Baldwin‘s fascinating documentary Seduced and Abandoned opens with a quote from Orson Welles, which attests that 95% of the time and energy expended making a film is actually...
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Cannes 2013 Review: ‘Borgman’ Is a Dementedly Funny Drama and a Sinister Delight
Alex van Warmerdam‘s Borgman is the first Dutch film to play In Competition at Cannes in just shy of 40 years, and with its daring, deeply dark yet also rib-ticklingly amusing subject matter it...
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Cannes 2013 Review: ‘Bite the Dust’ is an Execrable Dud
It might surprise many to learn that Bite the Dust is the single Russian film in this year’s Official Selection, and consequently expectations are understandably high for the apocalyptic comedy farce,...
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Cannes 2013 Review: ‘Bends’ is a Detached Drama That Fails to Engage
Bends, the feature debut from writer-director Flora Lau, isn’t a film that, with its potent framework of famial dissaray, should struggle to engage on an emotional level. Yet this slight, deliberate...
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Cannes 2013 Review: ‘Blue is the Warmest Color’ is an Affectionate, Raw...
Lea Seydoux has been one of the toasts of the Cannes Film Festival this year, what with her stellar work opposite Tahir Rahim in Un Certain Regard entry Grand Central, and now, In Competition, she...
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‘Blue is the Warmest Color’ and Latest Coen Brothers Film Win Top Honors at...
Three-hour lesbian drama Blue is the Warmest Color was announced the winner of the prestigious Palme d’Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, a choice that many foresaw as likely but not a sure thing....
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