Close (2022)
★★★★☆
Close by Lukas Dhont (Girl) is a heartbreaking film of two boys’ friendship.
Cannes Film Festival
EO (2022)
span style=”color:#D1A316″>★★★★☆
EO, veteran director Jerzy Skolimowski’s compelling, beautifully shot homage to Bresson’s classic, takes a donkey’s eye view of the vagaries of life.
Decision to Leave (2022)
★★★★☆
Cannes-award-winning unforgettable Decision to Leave directed with pyrotechnical flair by Park Chan-wook is a haunting Korean neo-noir and yet so much more.
Holy Spider (Ankabut-e moqaddas) (2022)
★★★★☆
Holy Spider, angrily written and directed by Ali Abbasi (Border), is a grisly, reality-based story of violence against women in a patriarchal, theocratic society.
Neptune Frost (2021)
★★★☆☆
Neptune Frost, a visionary collaboration between poet/artist Saul Williams and actress and playwright Anisia Uzeyman, is a unique Afro-futurist political musical filmed in Rwanda.
Triangle of Sadness (2021)
★★★★☆
Triangle of Sadness, Ruben Ôstland’s second Palme d’or winner, is an uncompromising black contemporary satire.
Hit the Road (Jaddeh Khaki) (2021)
★★★★★
In Hit the Road by Panah Panahi an Iranian family say so much and yet leave so much unsaid.
Everything Went Fine (2021) (Tout s’est bien passé)
★★★★☆
Everything Went Fine by François Ozon is a tender, surprisingly darkly humorous look at euthanasia and family relationships.
Cannes Film Festival 2022 Day 1: Opening Film Coupez! (Final Cut) 2022
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival Day 1: Opening Film Coupez! (Final Cut) 2022 – the Opening Film Out of Competition is Final Cut directed by Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist).
Cannes Film Festival 2022: Directors’ Fortnight Selection
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2022: Directors’ Fortnight Selection
75th Cannes Film Festival 2022 Official Selection
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2022 Official Selection
Drive My Car (2021)
★★★★★
strong>Drive My Car, directed with a delicate, luminous touch by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, deservedly won the Oscar this week for Best Film International Feature, the first Japanese film ever to do so.
The Worst Person in the World (2021)
★★★★☆
The Worst Person in the World is an enchanting but dark Nordic coming-of-age-rom-com by Joachim Trier, starring a luminous, award-winning central performance by Renate Reinsve.
Flee (2021)
★★★★★
Flee, by Jonas Poher Rasmussen, a documentary made with a blend of animation and archive footage tells an immensely powerful true story of a gay Afghan refugee in Denmark.