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German teenager Franny (newcomer Naomi Cosma) arrives in New Mexico to spend the 2001-02 academic year at a high school in Las Cruces, living with a local family, just before the terrorist attacks of 9/11 in writer-director Katharina Rivilis’ wispy but engaging debut feature. Even if you didn’t know that this was inspired by Rivilis’…
Japanese genre maven Kiyoshi Kurosawa is mostly known outside his homeland for eerie, visually inventive films like Cure, Pulse and Loft that brought the J-horror trend into the arthouse. But he’s also made psychological thrillers (Creepy), serial killer flicks (Serpent’s Path), science-fiction movies (Before We Vanish), a darkly comic anti-capitalist actioner (last year’s Cloud) and…
Lean, mean and frequently terrifying, The Birthday Party (Histoires de la nuit) is a home-invasion thriller in the vein of films like Funny Games and Speak No Evil, even if it stops well short of the sadistic shocks of either of them. Adapted from a French bestseller by Laurent Mauvignier, writer-director Léa Mysius’ third feature shares its remote setting and appetite…
The names of French actresses Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos will be forever intertwined in the Cannes record book, so it is serendipitous that both are returning to this year’s festival. Back in 2013, they starred in director Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue Is the Warmest Color, playing young women who share a sexually charged relationship. The…
Legendary Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda has become a mainstay of the Cannes Film Festival. His newest film, Sheep in the Box, a sci-fi tale about a couple who adopt a humanoid robot after the death of their son, will be his eighth film to play in competition. The Toyko-born Kore-eda served on the jury, headed…
When Tao Okamoto first read the script for Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden, one scene told her above all others that this was hers for the taking. The sequence saw her character, a well-regarded playwright named Mari, explaining the systemic failures of modern capitalism. The monologue is long and complex, propelled by interconnecting arguments that,…
Marco Perego, a conceptual artist whose work has been displayed around the world, grew up on world cinema and tends to watch a movie every day. Yet the Italian native has operated mostly outside filmmaking circles — until now. Coming off of his feature directorial debut from 2023, The Absence of Eden — which starred his wife,…
The title of the new film from Austrian auteur Marie Kreutzer (Corsage) tips us off that we will have to get ready to face potential horrors and uncomfortable questions – Gentle Monster. World premiering in the competition program of the Cannes Film Festival on Friday night, the movie focuses on two women, portrayed by French…
I’ve been back to Cannes something like 15 times. I was there with Valérie Donzelli’s film [Marguerite & Julien in 2015] in Competition and with the closing film [2012’s Thérèse] from Claude Miller. I’ve had films in Critics’ Week and Un Certain Regard. I was President of the Jury that awarded the Camera d’Or [to…
The first animated film to open the Cannes festival’s Critics’ Week, In Waves is an understated marvel, its elegant hand-drawn simplicity bolstered by a strong emotional throughline. The love story it tells — spirited, tender and wrenching — begins with the clumsy meet-cute in a suburban Los Angeles high school of AJ, an introverted skateboarder,…