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HOLY MOTORS

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 15:30:27 +0000

Leos Carax has created a perfect actor’s vehicle for Denis Lavant that is also so much more: a puzzle, an inquiry, a funhouse and a world of meanings ready to be scrutinized and pored over.

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Cannes 2012 Dispatch #10: Love, Actually

Sun, 27 May 2012 19:59:07 +0000

Back in my Polish flat mere hours before the closing ceremony of this year’s festival—my elbows still sore from fighting my way into press screenings—I duly watched the verdict unravel upon my Twitter feed, hitting the ‘refresh’ button incessantly as […]

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COSMOPOLIS

Fri, 25 May 2012 15:24:57 +0000

David Cronenberg’s much-awaited adaptation of Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis is a mesmerizing, utterly cerebral inquiry into the current economic crisis as channeled by its main character’s slowly imploding mind.

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Cannes 2012 Dispatch #8: Hello, I Must Be Going

Thu, 24 May 2012 13:17:03 +0000

Another sunny day here in Cannes started with a loud round of booing to greet the end credits of Lee Daniels’ The Paperboy: a pulpy, finger-painted piece of unfocused melodrama that stands a good chance of spawning a midnight cult […]

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Cannes 2012 Dispatch #6: Gently, Last Summer

Tue, 22 May 2012 13:52:45 +0000

Hong Sang Soo’s In Another Country and Abbas Kiarostami’s Like Someone In Love If anything, a couple of days at the Cannes Film Festival quickly teaches you to ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive. Competition disappointments aplenty (the latest one being Andrew Dominik’s […]

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Cannes 2012 Dispatch #4: Weekend At Joe’s

Sun, 20 May 2012 00:59:09 +0000

Extra! Extra! Some fresh disappointments in the main competition at Cannes: Cristian Mungiu’s long-awaited Beyond the Hills—save for a single, riveting opening shot—proved to be anticlimactic and rather shallow in its indictment of organized religion, while John Hillcoat 1930s bootlegers’ […]

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Cannes 2012 Dispatch #3: Reality Checks

Fri, 18 May 2012 15:59:14 +0000

The main competition at Cannes visibly perked up this morning, thanks to Matteo Garrone’s ironically titled and superbly crafted Reality: a movie about a dreamer gradually losing his grip on the eponymous environment, as he indulges in a fantasy of […]

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Cannes 2012 Dispatch #2: Main Competition Hits The Rocks

Thu, 17 May 2012 16:08:55 +0000

After shooting for the moon on its opening night—and by no means missing, courtesy of Wes Anderson’s superb Moonrise Kingdom—this year’s main competition at Cannes hits a palpable slump with two movies committing very different sins. Yousry Nasrallah’s After the […]

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