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609 articles available in total starting from 18/07/2003. Last article published on 15/09/2025.

Review: The Divide

Review: The Divide

CANNES 2021: Over one very agitated night at the hospital, Catherine Corsini intersects, with a good balance between comedy and drama, several hot social issues that are dividing France  

10/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Review: Benedetta

Review: Benedetta

CANNES 2021: Religion, power, manipulation, miracles and stigmata, truths and falsehoods are all on the ambiguous, intelligent, black humour-filled agenda of Paul Verhoeven’s excellent film  

09/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Review: Lingui, The Sacred Bonds

Review: Lingui, The Sacred Bonds

CANNES 2021: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun delivers a luminous work about a mother whose love for her daughter causes her to change course and to set about surmounting social and religious taboos  

09/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Review: The Worst Person in the World

Review: The Worst Person in the World

CANNES 2021: Joachim Trier delivers a perfectly watchable love story, or stories, but his female protagonist seems lifted from a fantasy land  

09/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Review: The Hill Where Lionesses Roar

Review: The Hill Where Lionesses Roar

CANNES 2021: Luàna Bajrami delivers a fine first feature, fresh and full of punch, about three girls who metamorphose into a pack of thieves in order to escape the destiny already drawn out for them  

08/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: Ahed’s Knee

Review: Ahed’s Knee

CANNES 2021: An irascible Israeli filmmaker comes to a small town in the Negev desert for a retrospective screening of his work in Nadav Lapid’s follow-up to Synonyms  

08/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Review: Everything Went Fine

Review: Everything Went Fine

CANNES 2021: François Ozon gets back to basics exploring death and euthanasia by way of a simple, realistic and modestly restrained family portrait which will resonate with many  

07/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Review: Annette

Review: Annette

CANNES 2021: Part-prestige production, part-cult curio, Leos Carax’s weird creation is a Cannes opener to remember  

07/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova  • Directors of Women Do Cry

Interview: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova • Directors of Women Do Cry

“This is not a normal film”

CANNES 2021: The women in this Un Certain Regard entry have a lot on their minds and have to learn to stop sweeping things under the carpet  

06/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Un Certain Regard

Review: The Land of Sons

Review: The Land of Sons

The new film from Claudio Cupellini, adapted from the graphic novel of the same name by Gipi and set in a post-apocalyptic future, is an ancestral, disturbing mirror of the present  

01/07/2021 | Films | Reviews | Italy/France

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