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Cannes Film Festival

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Festivals

The Book of Solutions – first-look review

by Mark Asch

A film­mak­er in cri­sis finds inspi­ra­tion in the moun­tains in Michel Gondry’s first film in eight years.
Three women in intimate, relaxed poses on a bed. Warm tones, dark hair, clothing in polka dot and red patterns.
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Four Daughters – first-look review

by Rafa Sales Ross

The lat­est doc­u­men­tary from Tunisian direc­tor Kaouther Ben Hania cen­ters a quar­tet of young women whose lived are changed for­ev­er when two of them join ISIS.
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Along Came Love – first-look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Sprawl­ing and poet­ic French peri­od dra­ma pow­ered by an under­stat­ed chem­istry between Anaïs Demousti­er and Vin­cent Lacoste.
Two people in traditional clothing standing in front of a vintage car, one wearing a patterned blanket.
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Killers of the Flower Moon – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Mar­tin Scorsese’s wist­ful remem­brance of tragedies that befell the Osage nation is a film of high seri­ous­ness and low spectacle.
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The Zone of Interest – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Jonathan Glaz­er returns with his first film in nine years – an aus­tere, chill­ing depic­tion of a Ger­man fam­i­ly main­tain­ing nor­mal­cy in close prox­im­i­ty to the Holocaust.
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Pictures of Ghosts – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Brazil’s Kle­ber Men­donça Fil­ho returns with this extreme­ly charm­ing per­son­al sur­vey of the grand pic­ture palaces of Recife.
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About Dry Grasses – first-look review

by David Jenkins

More ver­bose mag­nif­i­cence from Turkey’s Nuri Bilge Cey­lan, who makes three-and-half hours whiz by with this com­ic por­trait of an untreat­able misanthrope.
Two figures, one hooded in a dark cloak, embracing a woman wearing a light-coloured dress. Dark background.
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The New Boy – first-look review

by Charles Bramesco

War­wick Thornton’s spir­i­tu­al­ly-inclined Out­back dra­ma sees a name­less abo­rig­i­nal boy face off against Cate Blanchett’s anx­i­ety-prone nun.
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Lost in the Night – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Mex­i­can provo­ca­teur Amat Escalante makes a half-cocked bid for main­stream respectabil­i­ty in this intrigu­ing tale of a young man’s tor­rid search for his miss­ing mother.
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Youth (Spring) – first-look review

by Caitlin Quinlan

The Chi­nese mas­ter of slow cin­e­ma cov­ers life in some of the coun­try’s 18,000 gar­ment fac­to­ries in this sprawl­ing but focused documentary.