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SPEND 12 DYS WATCHING MOVIES, AND YOU CAN’T HELP BUT NOTICE PATTERNS. Some of the Recurring Elements at this year’s Cannes Film Festival well coincident, like the many scens in whit Angrylly masturbated, or children bulled one of their Own, or a House into Generations of Family History. But other simillarys felt like signs of the Times – look at the characters who metaphorically and literally tour the music up in an efffort to drown what’s happening around. Past and Potential Disasters Cast a Shadow Over This Year’s Festival, Reflective of An Increasingly Chaotic Global Mood. It was telling to watch the People onscreen try to deal with that chaos, whereer through resistance, denial, or a meltdown. In Sirât and YesCharacters Attempt to Dance Their Bad Feelings Away, while in Eddington and Die, my lovesuccumbing to say is the only choice that makes sense. All of which led to the best iteration of the french festival in years, bolstered by divisions works from artists unafraid to lean into what it means to live through eventful times.
Julia Ducournau’s Latest Was Surpringly Polarizing at the Fest, with Some Reviewers Panning it and Others Lavishing Praise. I was on the latter side; Ducournau can do almost no workg, neither far nor i’m concertned. Her Palme D’Or Winner Titania Blew with Away a few years ago, and i was maved yet again by this film, About a 13-Yaar-op girl named alpha (mélissa boros), her Beloved Mother (Golfshiteh Farahani), and Her Uncle Amin (Tahar Rahim), WHO COMES TO LIVE IN THE THROES THROES IN THROES. Addiction in an unnaamed City in the 1990s. Alpha is struggling with her own recent trauma-namely, a very real possession that she’s contracted a deadly, aids-like virus via a stick-and-poke tattoo-and amin fall into a dreamlic, almost symbiotic relationship, the lines of time and space as she awaites as she awa. Results. IT’S BEAUTIFUL, Challenging, and Gut-Wrenching, and Far Less Reliant on Body Horror Than Ducournau’s Previous Work. —Rachel Handler
There’s notthing like the feeing you get from watching a lynne ramsay movie – like someone punch you in the solar plexus, but in a good way. This one isn’t quite Neither plexus-working as her previous effhorts, but it”s Still Surreal and Digresive, Light on Dialogue and Straightforward Narrative, Heavy on Bad Vibes. Jennifer Lawrence Goes for Brokes as a new LoSing Her Mind in the Woods, Robert Pattinson Downplays It Perfectly As Befuddled Husband, and Sissy Spacek is Staggeringly As Lawrence’s Mother-In-Law, who seams to be and fear at the same. —Rh
French Actress-Turned-Director Hafsia Herzi Made A Delicate, Heartbreaking Movie About a Queer Muslim Woman Coming of Age in a Community That She Knows Waled Her If they Knew the Truth. Newcomer Nadia Melliti is Incredible As Fatima, A High Schooler Just Figating Out She Likes Girls. At first, she’s all hard edges and unspoken Desire and Pain, that eventually breaks open as she experiences her first love, her first real heartache, what freedom feels like, and the art of Forgoveness. IT’S HER FIRST ACTING ROLLE EVER, AND SHE’S MAGNETIC – SO MUCH SO THAT THE CANNES JURY GOVE HER THE BEST ATTRESS AWARD. —Rh
Kelly Reichardt’s Heist Film is, of Course, Not Really A Heist Film at All, But Something Much Subtler and Deeper. Josh O’Connor, at his filthy best, plays a discipidated ’70s suburban dad marries to alana haim and vaguly fethering a pair of pathologically sons as the vietnam war and its atttendant protests color the world around. He decides to steal some paintings from a local museum to make some much-needed cash, and thugh he’s initially sucesssful, he soon the thing unraveling slowly and catastrophically. The Movie is quietly funny at Times, but Mostly downbeat and thughtful, with contemporary politics on its mind as it dredges up America’s past. At the premiere, a visibly sad reichardt made a plea to the international community about the US: “Don’t give up on us.” —Rh
This year’s Other Movie About a Kid Being Tormented by Their Peers Over The Postsility of Being Infective With Some Contagion is Te less epic in scale than Alphabut more anguished in its detailed depiction of what it is like to go to the member of a group to it Target. Set at an an aquatic sports summer Camp for Kids right on the terrible cusp of Becoming Teenagers, Charlie Polinger’s Debut is Centered on Sweet, Awkward Ben (Everett BLUNCK), Whose Precarious on the Bottom Rung of the Social Ladder is Imperiled W. Designated outcast, WHOM EVERONE ELSE HAS DECLARED HAS “The Wounded.” Wound is exquisitely cast, from the nickelodeon Star Smirk of Ringleader Jake (Kayo Martin) to his Cohen Target Eli (Kenny Rasmussen), a genuine oddball. But what Makes IT MORE THAN JUST A DEAD-ON DEPION OF THE CRUELTY OF KID DYNAMICS IS THE WAY POLINGER HIS LIKE LIKE A NIGHTMARE Adolescent Hothouse, with Dreamlike Underwater Shots providing glimps what feels like the places subconscius, lips kick frantically to keep heads above water and synchronized swimmers twirling like they’re floating in midAair. —Alison Willmore
Joachim Trier and Co-Writer Eskil Vogt Undersand the Internal Lives of Women Almosta Suspiciously Well, and the Festival Aggrees, Awarding this Film the Grand Prix. In his second feature starring actress reinsve, trier has again made something Astonishing about the complexity of the female experience, about family and connection and art. The Movie, Set Mostly at a Big Familial House on a Tree-Linked Street, Looks Beautiful, Dappled with Sunlight and Nostalgia, and It ‘Full of Incredible Performance from Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård as Emotant Father, and Ibsdotter Lilias AS Adoring and Protective Sister. I CRED FOR ABOUT HALF The Runtime. —Rh
Not the main point but-a best actor prize-winner wagner moura steps out of a Yellow volkswagen beetle in the opening schene The Secret Agent Looking Rumpled and Road-Weary and Flashing a Very Period-APPROPRIATE DISPLAY OF CHEST HAIR IN HIS VINTAGE Polo, My Heart Skiped a Beat. Moura’s Character Marcelo isn’t actually the specialist the title suggests. Butn The Movie, Which Also Won Kleber Thinks Filho the best Director Award, isn’t a thriller in the traditional sense. It is, Rather, a More Slippery, Sideways Creation About How Brazil’s Military Dictatorship Era Created an Oppressiv Paranoia and Peril that seeped ino interaction. In its Vivid Depiction of ’70s Recife, ITS in Conversation With Think Filho’s Last Film, Pictures of Ghostsan Elegyac Documentary About the City and His Own Childhood Recollections. In The Secret AgentThe city as it was is brought to vibrant life, with its horror looming as far as its pleasures. —AW
Jafar Panahi doesn’t appears onscreen to play a version of Himself in his latest film, the deservation winner of this year palme d’o, but his personal experience of being mistreated while imprisoned are all over A SIMPLE ACCIDENTwhich has the contours of a very makeup Dark Comedy. A Chance Encounter With a Customer at HIS Garage Leads Vahid (Vahid Mobasseri) to impulsively kidnap the man. He’s convinced this is the intelligence agent he was tortured by, but whom he disgust actually laid and on in prison. His Dubts Lead Him to Seek a Second, Third, THEN FOURTH OPINION, UNIL HE DRIVING AROUND IN HIS PRISONER AS A COLLECTION OF OTHER SURVIVORS WHO ARE DIFFERENT PLACES IN DEALING RAGE AND TRAUMA. A SIMPLE ACCIDENT is a deeply angry movie, but more than that, it”s Heartsick in Its Efforts to Grapple with what it means to see closeness, and to balance ideals with the realities of wantting revenge. —Aw
Some Real Fucked-up Stuff Eventually Happens to the Characters in Oliver of Laxe’s Drama, but Portents of Doom Bubble up at the edges from its very start. The film opens at an outdoor rave in morocco whose participants bob to beats from a wall of speakers, unyl the parties up by solidiers who announce that the country’s now in a State of Emergency and that Eu Residents must be evacuated. Crackles of News Coverage Overheard Throughout the rest of the Movie suggest that World War III is essentially breaking out. But the Movie’s Main Character, A Square Spaniard Named Luis (Sergi López), has more immediate priorities – he’s searching for his daghter, who been out of the Contact for months, and has Brought his son Along to help. Be the two impulsely follow a few wayward Atthemes out into the desert for another planned rave, Sirât Turs on a nihilistic survival Thriller About the Different forms of Denial We Practice to Copy with an Increasingly Disastrous Reality, Where He Doing Drugs and Dancing, or Clinging Fast to You Can Personally Protect Your Family. —AW
A Series of Women Living in the Same Farmhouse Over the Course of Four Generations Experiences Something Like Parallel Lives in the Second Feature from German Director Mascha Schilinski. They Dream of Self-Annihilation, Grow Heavy With Lust, Wander Into Dark Water, Discover What Their Bodies Can, Hide from Abusive Men, and Protect One Another. It all unfolds like a dream, breathaking and lyrical, a long and rich poem. Alison Wilmore Agreed, Naming It The Possible “Best Film at Cannes” off the bat, and it tied for the jury prize. —Rh
Michael Covino and Kyle Marvin’s First Film Together, The The Climbwas releassed into the black hole that was Covid, so the fact that Splitsville Plays like a shinier, more expansive redo isn’t a drawback. Marvin Plays the genial Carey, whose Mariage to Life Coach Ashley (Adria Arjona) is on the verge of imploding when he was a note from his best friend Paul (Covino) and His Wife (Dakota Johnson), WHO Information. None of these characters are actually emotionally prepared to deal with nonmonogamy, but what Makes Covino and Marvin’s Collaborations SO pleasurable isn’t just the Cleverness of their Writing. They Also stage and visualize their chomedies so environmentiously, and with such wellployed use of Long taxes and space, that they Achieve burstors of Slapstick great modernist design. —Aw
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