Cannes 2018 Archives - The Playlist

‘Border’: Trolls Get Their Due In Strange, But Touching Swedish Drama [Cannes Review]

May 28, 2018 9:26 am

Bashing skulls, killing hobbits, or living under bridges, trolls aren’t generally afforded much empathy in cinema let alone in form of storytelling, but these mythical, cave-dwelling creatures receive a profoun...

‘Whitney’: Kevin MacDonald Delivers A Moving Portrait Of A Tragic Icon [Cannes Review]

Jordan Ruimy

May 25, 2018 4:48 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

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Our morbid fascination with rise and fall narratives is entrenched in the culture and all-too-common tragic stories about stardom and pop figures practically beg for cross-examined relitigation. The sad tale of...

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Oscar Still On Hold After Foreign Language Focused Cannes

Gregory Ellwood

May 25, 2018 3:18 pm

Awards, Awards Campaign, Festivals, News

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It's been almost a week since the 71st Festival de Cannes came to a close and the festival bubble is starting to dissipate. That means the realization of what we assumed before it all began comes into clearer f...

‘Dogman’: Matteo Garrone’s Back With Ferocious Bite [Cannes Review]

Jordan Ruimy

May 25, 2018 1:45 pm

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Following two Cannes efforts both met politely, but a little meso meso by critics, the comedy "Reality" and the dark fantasy of "Tale Of Tales," Italian filmmaker Matteo Garrone returns to the crime genre that ...

Nadine Labaki’s ‘Capernaum [Capharnaüm]’ Restlessly Moves Like An Uber-Realist ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ [Cannes Review]

Jordan Ruimy

May 24, 2018 5:21 pm

News, Reviews

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Stories that trade in narratives about child exploitation, abuse and neglect often run the risk of manipulation through phony sentimentality or affected misery porn. Lebanese director Nadine Labaki's Cannes eff...

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Ciro Guerra & Christina Gallego’s ‘Birds Of Passage’ Is A Colombian Crime Saga Masterpiece [Cannes Review]

Jessica Kiang

May 23, 2018 12:50 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

We humans have a mania for classification. We divide things into epochs and eras -- Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous; Elizabethan, Victorian, Edwardian. We draw borders around regions, cutting rivers in half, lik...

Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Wordy, Windy, Wearying ‘The Wild Pear Tree’ [Cannes Review]

Jessica Kiang

May 23, 2018 12:16 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

At least it's mostly outdoors. Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan's new Cannes competition title, "The Wild Pear Tree," an extravagantly wordy, three-hour-plus rumination on masculinity and morality in modern T...

Lee Chang-dong’s ‘Burning’ Is A Masterfully Mysterious Psychological Thriller [Cannes Review]

Jordan Ruimy

May 21, 2018 5:05 pm

News

According to South Korean director Lee Chang-dong, Haruki Murakami's short story "Barn Burning," is a story wherein "nothing happens." It's then a risky endeavor for Chang-dong to wholeheartedly embrace the con...

‘Shoplifters’: Hirokazu Kore-eda Finds Empathy & Grace In Family Again [Cannes Review]

Jordan Ruimy

May 20, 2018 7:04 pm

News, Reviews

What constitutes a family? It's a theme, like an instinctual migratory destination, that the compassionate Japanese helmer Hirokazu Kore-eda ("Like Father, Like Son") returns to time and time again. Following t...

Cannes: ‘Shoplifters’ Wins The Palme d’Or; Spike Lee’s ‘BlackKklansman’ Takes Grand Prize

Rodrigo Perez

May 19, 2018 9:12 pm

Festivals, News

That’s a wrap on Cannes. The closing night ceremony of the 71st Cannes Film Festival took place this afternoon with President Cate Blanchett presiding over her group of jurors including Lea Seydoux, Kristen Ste...

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