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[Cannes Review] Hanezu

Filmmaker Naomi Kawase has been a soft spoken staple at the Cannes film festival ever since being the youngest recipient to win the Camera d'Or for her debu...

[Cannes Review] This Must Be The Place

In Paolo Sorrentino's This Must Be the Place, Sean Penn plays a spoof of The Cure's Robert Smith named Cheyenne. Dressed in all black with disheveled hair and...

[Cannes Review] Le Havre

Deadpan comedies are a trademark of Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki. He specializes in creating atmospheres devoid of overtly acted emotions, opting instea...

[Cannes Review] Drive

In Drive, Ryan Gosling plays a lone-wolf type who likes to do precisely what the title explicitly says. Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn, best known fo...

[Cannes Review] The Skin I Live In

Director Pedro Almodóvar is a true master at weaving multiple relationship threads and themes in a seemingly nonchalant fashion. His ability of control seem...

[Cannes Review] Pina

After watching Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams, a 3D film about prehistoric paintings in France, it became clear that perhaps there is an appropria...

[Cannes Review] Wu Xia

In Peter Chan's action packed epic Wu Xia (or Swordsmen), the successful Chinese director takes the classic wu xia genre of films made popular by the Shaw Bro...