Cannes Film Festival 2021: All the awards
★★★★★
Cannes Film Festival 2021: All the awards
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Cannes Film Festival 2021: All the awards
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Cannes Film Festival Day 9: Titane
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Cannes Film Festival 2021 Day 10
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Cannes Film Festival 2021 Day 7: Neptune Frost (2021) and Mes Frères et Moi (2021)
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Cannes Film Festival 2021 Day 7: Tre Piani (Three Floors) (2021)
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Cannes Film Festival 2021 Day 7: Petrov’s Flu (2021)
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Still in cinemas
Sundance Film Festival: London 2021
★★★★☆
Sundance London 2021 – 29 July to 1 August 2021.
Supernova (2020)
★★★★☆
Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci are superb in Harry MCQueen’s Supernova, this intimate portrayal of a couple facing a challenging future with one of them suffering from early onset dementia.
Cannes Film Festival 2021: the 74th
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2021: Official Selection
The Human Voice (2020)
★★★★☆
The Human Voice is a gripping half-hour monologue of madness and melancholy that brings director Pedro Almodóvar and other-worldly actress Tilda Swinton together in an artistic marriage made in heaven.
Frankie (2019)
★★★☆☆
In Frankie, written and directed by Ira Sachs, Isabelle Huppert stars in an ensemble piece that illuminates a terminally ill actress’s final attempts to control the tangled relationships of her extended family.
Film reviews
Cannes Film Festival 2021 Day 3: Lingui (2021) and others
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2021 Day 3: Lingui, La Fracture, The Worst Person in the World, After Yang and The Gravedigger’s Wife.
The Man with the Answers (2020)
★★★☆☆
A burgeoning connection with a stranger may deeply affect the life of an ex-diving champion in writer/director Stelios Kammitsis’s charming but slight The Man with the Answers.
FÁTIMA (2020)
★★★☆☆
Fátima is a fascinating glimpse of Catholic faith, respectfully translated to the screen by Marco Pontecorvo.
Agony (2020) – on demand
★★☆☆☆
Agony (original title The Executrix) by Michele Civetta, starring Asia Argento, is a heavily atmospheric Italian-set gothic horror-cum-giallo.
Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman streams all his films for free
★★★★☆
Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman to stream all his films for free from 21 to 30 May.
Frankie (2019)
★★★☆☆
In Frankie, written and directed by Ira Sachs, Isabelle Huppert stars in an ensemble piece that illuminates a terminally ill actress’s final attempts to control the tangled relationships of her extended family.
Sound of Metal (2019)
★★★★☆
Sound of Metal by Darius Marder, starring Riz Ahmed, is the sensitively told and brilliantly acted story of every musician’s worst nightmare – going deaf.
The Mauritanian (2021) – on digital
★★★★☆
The Mauritanian, directed by Kevin MacDonald, brings a legal drama to devastating life on screen from the New York Times acclaimed best-selling memoir Guantánamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was tortured and detained without charge in Guantánamo for 14 years.
Truman and Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation (2020) – on demand
★★★★☆
Truman and Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation is a fascinating documentary by Lisa Immordino Vreeland about two groundbreaking giants of contemporary literature and the creative process.
Oscar Winners 2021
★★★★★
Oscar Winners 2021 – 93rd Academy Awards.
