‘Left-Handed Girl’ Review: Striking, Sean Baker-Penned Drama Sketches Compelling Portrait of Mothers and Daughters in Taiwan

‘Left-Handed Girl’ Review: Striking, Sean Baker-Penned Drama Sketches Compelling Portrait of Mothers and Daughters in Taiwan

It is an unfortunate reality that in many cultures around the world, the left hand is taboo. Some traditions consider it unclean, others brand anyone who uses it to be impure on a physical and spiritual level. When I-Jing (Nina Ye), one of the protagonists in Shih-Ching Tsou‘s accomplished solo feature directorial debut, Left-Handed Girl,…

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‘Little Amélie,’ World Premiering at Cannes,  Lets Us See the World Through a Young Girl’s Eyes (Trailer With English Subtitles)

‘Little Amélie,’ World Premiering at Cannes, Lets Us See the World Through a Young Girl’s Eyes (Trailer With English Subtitles)

Dive into the wondrous world of a little Belgian girl in Japan with the official trailer with English subtitles for the animated Cannes Film Festival movie Little Amélie (Amélie et la Métaphysique des Tubes). In their feature directorial debut, directors Maïlys Vallade (The Lighthouse Keeper; layout and storyboard artist on I Lost My Body and…

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Cannes: Alice Rohrwacher to Lead Golden Camera Jury

Cannes: Alice Rohrwacher to Lead Golden Camera Jury

Italian director and screenwriter Alice Rohrwacher (La Chimera, Heavenly Body) has been chosen to chair the jury of the Caméra d’or, the Golden Camera jury, in Cannes. This award honors the best first feature film presented in the Official Selection at the Critics’ Week or the Directors’ Fortnight. Rohrwacher, “whose delicate work blossomed in Cannes,”…

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#Thierry Frémaux: ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Was a Cannes “Triumph,” Despite Tom Cruise Being “Stressed and Afraid”

#Thierry Frémaux: ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Was a Cannes “Triumph,” Despite Tom Cruise Being “Stressed and Afraid”

Cannes film festival boss Thierry Frémaux has lifted the curtain on the venerable French festival and its influence, including how the success of ‘Top Gun: Maverick‘ left global star like Tom Cruise in a flop sweat. “In Cannes, the big films protect the small films,” Fremaux told a Red Sea Film Festival session at the…

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#Thierry Frémaux on ‘Lumière! The Adventure Continues!’ and Finding Inspiration From Cinema’s Founding Fathers

#Thierry Frémaux on ‘Lumière! The Adventure Continues!’ and Finding Inspiration From Cinema’s Founding Fathers

Cannes festival boss Thierry Frémaux will be presenting some of the world’s oldest moving images at the Red Sea International Film Festival when he premieres his latest documentary, Lumière! The Adventure Continues, a deep dive into the origins of cinema. The doc, a sequel to Frémaux’s Lumière! The Adventure Begins (2016) will be screened as…

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