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Cannes Film Festival Recap and Reviews. Netflix and chill? Not in Cannes. The 7. Cannes Film Festival began with a controversy over Netflix's inclusion in the competition (Netflix debuted both The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) and Okja this year) and the resulting rule that the streaming giant would be barred from future festivals unless their films received a theatrical release in France. Stars, directors, executives, theater owners and festival organizers all weighed in, but with Netflix not going away, it will be an evolving story for years to come. Opinions were also quite varied about the actual films screening at Cannes this year. Only one title left the festival with a Metascore in the 9.
Agnes Varda and JR’s documentary Faces Places (Visages Villages). In the end, the jury spread the awards around and gave Nicole Kidman, who had three films and a TV miniseries (The Beguiled, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, How to Talk to Girls at Parties, and Top of the Lake: China Girl) at Cannes this year, a special 7. Anniversary Prize. Overall, reviewers felt that this year’s slate of films was weaker than those of the previous two years. But the jury, led by filmmaker Pedro Almod. The Square’s Palme d'Or victory was a more popular choice amongst critics than 2.
I, Daniel Blake or 2. Dheepan, but some critics were less forgiving of its overstuffed and shapeless nature than others. The only film to take away two awards (Best Screenplay and Best Actor) was Lynne Ramsay’s fourth film, You Were Never Really Here, a bleak 8. Metascore of any competition title other than the Jury Prize winner, Loveless. Amazon Studios will be releasing You Were Never Really Here in theaters, and maybe Netflix will follow their distribution model in the future.
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Day 2 of Cannes 2017 includes the latest from Todd Haynes. Opening on May 17, the Cannes International Film Festival turns an astounding 70 years old with this 2017 birthday edition. The venerable festival bears down on us in. Speak Now is the third studio album by American country singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was released on October 25, 2010, by Big Machine Records. Our recap of the 70th Cannes Film Festival includes a list of award winners and reviews and scores for over 30 notable film (and TV) debuts.
Then again, probably not. The award winners Palme d'Or (1st place): . And it succeeds,” according to The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw. Rory O’Connor of The Film Stage agrees that while it’s “not as slick and streamlined a film as Force Majeure it still hunts for that same meaty psychological game,” resulting in an “acerbic, sphincter- tightening dark comedy that works as a sort of drawn- out spiritual castration for its .
Writer- director Robin Campillo’s follow- up to Eastern Boys centers on ACT UP AIDS activists in Paris in the early 1. In his 5- star review, Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian praises the film’s ability to combine “elegy, tragedy, urgency and a defiant euphoria.”Jury Prize (3rd place).
The New York Times’s Manohla Dargis claims it’s a “vision of breathtaking, casual cruelty that inexorably shifts from the personal into an indictment of a soul- sick country,” and Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian believes the film has a “hypnotic intensity and unbearable ambiguity.”More awards. Other winners in the main competition this year include: Outside the main competition, Mohammad Rasoulof’s follow- up to Manuscripts Don’t Burn, A Man of Integrity, won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard section of the Festival. Best Director there went to Taylor Sheridan for Wind River, which premiered at Sundance in January (and thus isn't listed below) and will hit U. Brigsby Bear (2017) The Movie High Quality. S. A special award for Best Poetic Narrative went to Mathieu Amalric’s meta- biopic of French singer Barbara, starring Jeanne Balibar. The Critic’s Week sidebar awarded Emmanuel Gras’ documentary Makala with the Nespresso Grand Prize, and Gabriel and the Mountain, directed by Fellipe Barbosa (Casa Grande), won the France 4 Visionary Award for best first or second feature. The Directors’ Fortnight Art Cinema Award went to The Rider (detailed below) and Mediterranea director Jonas Carpignano’s A Ciambra won the Europa Cinemas Label Award.
Finally, this year’s Palm Dog (presented for the best canine performance) went to Bruno, a standard poodle from Noah Baumbach's The Meyerowitz Stories. He's a very good boy.
Other notable films premiering at Cannes Titles that previously debuted at another festival are not included here. The late Abbas Kiarostami’s final film is a “major work, and particularly indispensable to fans yearning to spend another two hours with a master who was taken too soon,” writes The Playlist’s Bradley Warren.
The film consists of 2. Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s “The Hunters In The Snow” and 2. Kiarostami’s own photographs. Within each short, the frame comes to life through animation, the computer effects adding animals or snow as music and other sounds bring even more life to the still images.
Variety’s Owen Gleiberman believes “Kiarostami isn’t just making hypnotic images; he’s communing with the audience (as he always did).”Writer- director Michel Franco’s follow- up to his 2. Cannes best screenplay winner, Chronic, is his “finest directorial work yet,” according to Jordan Ruimy of The Film Stage. The drama begins when absentee mother April (Julieta’s Emma Suarez) pushes her way into the lives of her two daughters, pregnant Valeria and her half- sister Clara. But as the actions taken by the characters become less believable, THR’s Boyd van Hoeij feels “all the illuminating mise- en- scene and framing in the world can't compensate for a screenplay that has some focus issues.”The latest from Roman Polanski, a psychological thriller adapted with Olivier Assayas (Clouds of Sils Maria) from Delphine de Vigan’s novel and starring Eva Green and Emmanuelle Seigner as rival writers, divided critics. Screen Daily’s Jonathan Romney believes it’s a “teasing, tricksy, hugely entertaining, in some ways old- fashioned divertissement,” but Nikola Grozdanovic of The Playlist claims it’s “one of the director’s worst films, if not the worst.”Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s diverse filmography (Creepy, Tokyo Sonata, Pulse) gets another strange addition with this alien invasion movie adapted from a play by Tomohiro Maekawa. Following three aliens as they scout humanity by taking over the bodies of an estranged husband, a violent young girl, and a young man who enlists a journalist as his guide, the film failed to impress THR’s Stephen Dalton, who notes, “Kurosawa's lackadaisical direction does not help, deflating any suspense and stretching audience patience with his snoozy pacing and baggy running time.” However, while Rory O’Connor of The Film Stage admits the film is a “sort of skittish and overlong, albeit pleasantly existential oddity,” it’s still an “alien- invasion B- movie packed with A- grade ideas and craft.”Writer- director Sofia Coppola’s first feature film since 2.
The Bling Ring is a remake of Don Siegel’s 1. Clint Eastwood as an injured Union soldier who finds refuge and then trouble at a girls boarding school in Louisiana. Also based on Thomas Cullinan’s novel, Coppola’s version stars Colin Farrell as the soldier who has eyes for Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, and Elle Fanning.
Screen Daily’s Tim Grierson believes the result is “supremely immersive and thought- provoking,” and Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian claims it’s “a tremendously watchable movie, a drama- thriller with subtle touches of noir and black comedy.” But THR’s Todd Mc. Carthy prefers the original film, finding this one to be “a respectable but pallid redo.” The Beguiled opens in a few theaters on June 2. Takashi Miike’s 1. Assassins. Indiewire’s Ben Croll praises the film’s “great action and idiosyncratic antagonists,” but finds the 1. However, Jordan Hoffman of The Guardian advises, “If you are going to see one outlandish and occasionally nauseating bloodbath samurai pic this year, this is the one.”In one of his two films playing at Cannes (this one as a special screening), writer- director Hong Sang- soo reunites with his In Another Country star, Isabelle Huppert, and pairs her with the star of his last four films, Kim Min- hee.
As a gesture it would feel unimpeachable, honouring the film’s bidding about living your politics in the first person. He’s not the most polished filmmaker of this bunch, but the sex scenes do an amazing job of deepening the characterisation. On balance, this is the favourite. Could win instead for: Actor (Nahuel P.