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Nitram, Itinerary of a Killer at the Cannes Film Festival The Restless ©YesICannes.com The Official Competition of the Cannes Film Festival ends with Justin Kurzel’s Nitram and Joachim Lafosse’s The Restless. D-1 before the Palme d’or… After Macbeth, Australian director Nitram, a chilling film that follows the itinerary of Martin Bryant, the perpetrator of the 1996 Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania, which plunged Australia into mourning. Les Intranquilles, the fourth Cannes particip...

Scene from Hit the Road by Panah Panahi. Courtesy Celluloid Dreams Standing in the check-in queue at LAX, checking that I had my negative PCR test results ready with my passport, I looked up to find a colleague gazing at me, his eyes amused over the line of his mask.  “We’re really doing this, huh?” he said.  We were. The Air France flight was packed, restrictions to Europe having been lifted for US citizens and residents just three weeks earlier. Eleven hours later we were in Paris, e...

That there is something not right about Grazia, all the village agrees. "Bring her shot!" her husband calls out at fraught moments, and the children and neighbors hold her down while he jabs her with a needle filled with--what? It calms her down, anyway. There is said to be a doctor in Milan who could help her, but when the entire village unites in favor of the Milan trip, Grazia runs away and is thought to be dead in the sea. The village is angry at her because Grazia opened the doors of an ol...

At Cannes Film Festival too, Italy is every bit the winner Issued on: 12/07/2021 - 05:35 Salsa Rossa pizzeria owner Giuseppe Esposito and his son gear up for the Euro football final at the restaurant in Cannes. © Benjamin Dodman, FRANCE 24 6 min Italy’s Euro football triumph on Sunday was loudly celebrated on the Italophile French Riviera, where the world’s premier festival has been blessed by a bevy of movies from the penins...

Postcard from Cannes #5: Life, like cinema, is an adventure RFI 11 Jul 2021, 04:16 GMT+10 When the world went into lockdown due to Covid-19, time seemed to stand still. Filmmakers, however, used the period of confinement to explore their creative options. This was clearly reflected in the winners of a sidebar short film competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Friday morning began with a screening over at the Palais des Festivals to find out who won the Nespresso Talents 2021 prizes. The initia...

How to Have Sex wins the Next Step Award in Cannes Director Molly Manning Walker Since 2014, the Cannes Film Festival’s Critics’ Week accompanies its talents from short to feature-length film through its Next Step programme. But the workshop, offered every year to laureates (read the news on their latest selection of filmmakers), also organises since 2019 a competition to reward one of them. This year, it’s the British project How to Have Sex by Molly Manning Walker, produced by Wild Sw...

Robust Review: An Acting Legend and a Rising Star Make for a Soulful French Odd-Couple Dramedy Robust Review: An Acting Legend and a Rising Star Make for a Soulful French Odd-Couple Dramedy An aging movie star bonds with his minder despite having apparently little in common in this supremely well-performed French feature debut. Jessica Kiang, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Running time: Running time: 95 MIN. Courtesy of Cannes Critics Week At a table in his house, Georges, an aging movie sta...

Heres an experiment: Try watching "The Souvenir Part II" without seeing the first part. "Maybe some of you didnt see part one—it probably doesnt matter, I dont know," the filmmaker, Joanna Hogg, told the audience at Directors Fortnight after the screening this morning. Id be curious to hear how "Part II" plays completely fresh. Personally, though, I think thats ill-advised. "The Souvenir Part II" is in effect the second half of a single four-hour movie. It picks up right where the first one ...

Scandinavian Films to Watch for at Cannes Lise Pedersen, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail A tribute to the Nordic film industry’s resilience, four Nordic titles have made it through to Cannes’ Official Selection. And unlike previous years, when Denmark (Lars Von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg) or Sweden (Rüben Östlund) drew most of the worldwide attention, audiences should watch out for new and established voices from Norway, Finland and Iceland.   More from Variety “Compartment No. 6”  ...

Annette Opens 74th Festival de Cannes ©YesICannes.com The 74th Festival de Cannes continues its legend: after a glamorous Red Carpet, star-studded with international stars, the Opening Ceremony kicked off the competition with the screening of Leos Carax’s Annette. Festival de Cannes 2021: the Competition Jury, chaired this year by the American militant director Spike Lee, was welcomed on the stage of the Grand Théâtre Lumière of the Palais des Festivals by the Master of Ceremonies, the...