Raphael Deutsch

[Cannes Review] Mustang

The first feature film from director Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Mustang (recipient of the Europa Cinemas Label Award at Cannes' Directors' Fortnight program), follows...

[Cannes Review] The Chosen Ones

It is difficult to equitably handle and deal with particular subject matter in a film without feeling exploitative. Yet David Pablos has managed to walk this fi...

[Cannes Review] Rams

Following his 2010 debut, Summerland, Rams marks the second feature film from Icelandic director Grimur Hakonarson. Premiering as part of Cannes' Un Certain Reg...

[Cannes Review] The Shameless

There is something to be said about the satisfying catharsis from a pure melodrama -- a movie that is so earnest and excessive in service to its genre conventio...