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20
May
#Cannes2013 review of the film Omar
Omar is the new feature film from the Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad, selected for the official competition in the Un certain regardcategory at the 66th Cannes Festival. Here’s an extract from the film: It tells the story of three childhood friends, three Palestinians, against the backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The action is set in the [...]
19
May
The Lunchbox #Cannes2013
Director: Ritesh Batra Actors: Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur, Nawazuddin Siddiqui Country: India, France, Germany Year: 2013 In Mumbai, the number of lunch boxes, or dabbas, delivered every day by thousands of dabbawallahs is astonishing! This was the inspiration for the film, which tells the story of how a (statistically unlikely) mistake can lead to a [...]
19
May
#Cannes2013 review of Monsoon Shootout
Bollywood is dead! Long live Indian films! Everyone has their preference, of course, but Bollywood films are a very specific genre that I’m not really keen on. However, almost the entire Indian cinema industry is based on these kitsch musical comedies. Well times are changing, and the most prolific country in terms of film production [...]
19
May
review of Like Father, like Son #cannes2013
The Cannes Film Festival is well known for placing the spotlight on Asian cinema, as it did with Bends and A Touch of Sin. This is also true of Soshite Chichi ni Naru, which has even made it to the official selection. Ryota and Midori, a dynamic young professional and his charming wife have a [...]
18
May
#Cannes2013 review of the film Bends
With her first feature film, the Chinese director Flora Lau has been selected to compete in the Un certain regard section with her film Bends. The film tells the story of the wife of a wealthy man and that of her chauffeur. Two parallel stories that will eventually merge. Two protagonists whose lives will change [...]
18
May
#Cannes2013 critique of the film Grand Central
After having been selected in 2010 at the Semaine de la Critique with Belle Epine, Rebecca Zlotowski returns to Cannes this year, but in competition in the Un certain regard section with the film Grand Central. Grand Central is a kind of modern-day Germinal: The workers don’t go to the mine, but to a nuclear [...]
17
May
review of A Touch of Sin #cannes2013
The Cannes Festival is also an opportunity to come across the kind of films that you can’t find anywhere else (like the controversial Stranger by the lake) even in the Competition. This is probably the case of A Touch of Sin or Tian Zhu Ding in the original version. Four stories, four “textbook cases”. So [...]
17
May
Review of the film Le Passé #cannes2013
Third day at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival and my 4th film is Le Passé [The Past] by the great Iranian Director Asghar Farhadi, already responsible for many masterpieces, including About Elly and A Separation. Synopsis: Marie-Anne is like most women: Men come and go in her life, leaving more or less of a mark, [...]
17
May
#Cannes2013 film review of Stranger by the Lake
The Cannes Film Festival has something for everyone: films that are scandalous, disturbing, over-the-top, and films that make you nauseous and wish you hadn’t watched. Those films, luckily, are merely sideline attractions. This morning I had the chance to see one of those films as part of the Un certain regard selection, Cannes’ other competition. [...]
17
May
#Cannes2013 – Review of Fruitvale Station
Screened in the Un Certain Regard category during the Cannes Film Festival 2013, Fruitvale Station is the story of a police blunder: an African American gets shot and killed by a white policeman. Fruitvale Station (Trailer) par tv-prime The incident is based on a true story, the sort you read about regularly in the papers [...]
