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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,…
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,…
As Baby opens, the title character, whose given name is Wellington, has a taste of freedom for the first time in nearly two years. He’s ending his stint in a youth detention center, a place with the grim industrial aura of a high-security prison — but also one where there are occasional breaks for drum-and-brass…
Belgian director Leonardo Van Dijl’s assured debut feature, Julie Keeps Quiet, builds a riveting psychological drama around the choice of a star player from an elite youth tennis academy not to speak up in the wake of tragedy. In her first acting role, young tennis ace Tessa Van den Broeck internalizes the title character’s brooding…
When New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael wrote a long and heated rave of Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris after its premiere in 1972, she stated, among other things, that “this is a movie people will be arguing about for as long as there are movies.” Kael may have been overdoing it when she…
Oliver Stone has always had one eye pointed south of the U.S. border. It began with his phenomenal script for Brian De Palma’s Scarface, which transformed the famous Chicago gangster into a hardened Cuban refugee. After that, Stone directed the photojournalist saga Salvador, about the deadly civil war that gripped El Salvador in the 1980s….
Films about the ecological stakes of contemporary life often center the results of unfettered human consumption. By showing the abuses suffered by the environment, they function as both an urgent warning and a desperate plea. Claude Barras takes a different route in Savages (Sauvages), his incisive and edifying animated feature about an 11-year-old girl trying…
Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s filmography could be neatly divided into three genre buckets: feature films (the last two were Donbass and A Gentle Creature, both from the last decade), documentaries compiled entirely from archive sources (The Kiev Trial), and documentaries about current events, filmed by Loznitsa himself and small crews. The most well-known example from…
It wouldn’t be the Cannes Film Festival nowadays without at least one film featuring the prolific Franco-Belgian actress Virginie Efira, who’s become a regular on the Croisette ever since starring in director Justine Triet’s second movie, Victoria, back in 2016. Last year, Efira toplined Serge Bozon’s Don Juan and Alice Winocour’s Paris Memories, while also…
The captivating opening sequence of Nanni Moretti’s A Brighter Tomorrow (Il Sol dell’Avvenire) watches as a dusty old Fiat passes Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome and pulls up next to the Tiber. A man with a can of red paint and a rope steps out and scoots halfway down the stone wall that hugs the riverbank,…