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

Review: The Traitor

Review: The Traitor

CANNES 2019: With his story of the mafia boss-turned-informant Tommaso Buscetta, Italian director Marco Bellocchio once again raises the bar on his own special brand of social cinema  

23/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Review: Oh Mercy!

Review: Oh Mercy!

CANNES 2019: Arnaud Desplechin tackles the genre of the crime thriller against the backdrop of poverty, but struggles to be convincing despite a great performance from Roschdy Zem  

23/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Ira Sachs  • Director of Frankie

Interview: Ira Sachs • Director of Frankie

“I am interested in people being, not acting”

CANNES 2019: We met up with Ira Sachs, the director of Frankie, a French-Portuguese-Belgian-US co-production shown in the main competition  

23/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Corneliu Porumboiu • Director of The Whistlers

Interview: Corneliu Porumboiu • Director of The Whistlers

"I watched all those films that I liked in my childhood again, and it was a pleasure to play with that"

CANNES 2019: Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu, who is in participating in the Palme d'Or competition for the first time, talked to us about his new film The Whistlers  

22/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Diao Yinan • Director of The Wild Goose Lake

Interview: Diao Yinan • Director of The Wild Goose Lake

"I very much want to rely on the visual language, rather than on dialogues"

CANNES 2019: We met up with Chinese filmmaker Diao Yinan, who is participating for the first time in the Palme d'Or competition with his new film The Wild Goose Lake  

21/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Review: Frankie

Review: Frankie

CANNES 2019: In what feels like one of the longest 98-minute-long films ever made, Ira Sachs talks about a terminal illness and, fittingly enough, leaves you comatose  

21/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne • Directors of Young Ahmed

Interview: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne • Directors of Young Ahmed

"The child is more radical than the radicals"

CANNES 2019: We met with the Dardenne brothers on the occasion of their 8th visit to the Cannes competition with yet another film, this time in the form of Young Ahmed, their 11th feature  

21/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Review: Young Ahmed

Review: Young Ahmed

CANNES 2019: The Dardenne brothers return to their core film values, painting a modest portrait of a child caught in the vortex of religious radicalisation  

20/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Review: Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Review: Portrait of a Lady on Fire

CANNES 2019: Céline Sciamma puts her name to a magnificent period drama on passionate love, art and the destiny of women, featuring the exceptional acting talent of Noémie Merlant and Adèle Haenel  

20/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Review: The Wild Goose Lake

Review: The Wild Goose Lake

CANNES 2019: Co-produced by France, the new film noir by Chinese director Diao Yinan, who triumphed at the Berlinale 2014 with Black Coal, Thin Ice, is a work of stunning virtuosity  

19/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

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