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Festivals

God’s Creatures – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Emi­ly Wat­son and Paul Mescal enter into a bat­tle of moth­er-son wills in this gor­geous­ly-mount­ed but uno­rig­i­nal Irish thriller.
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Tchaikovsky’s Wife – first-look review

by Mark Asch

Kir­ill Sere­bren­nikov focus­es on the rela­tion­ship between one of Russia’s great­est com­posers and his ador­ing, but unloved, partner.
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Final Cut – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Michel Haz­anavi­cius comes up short in his under­pow­ered remake of Shinichi­rou Ueda’s zom-com, One Cut of the Dead
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Scarlet – first-look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Pietro Mar­cel­lo adapts Alexan­der Grin’s fairy tale about a pover­ty-strick­en fam­i­ly with breath­tak­ing results.
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Cannes Film Festival

24 curious facts about the Cannes Film Festival

by Saskia Lloyd Gaiger

Some of the best nuggets of glitz and scan­dal through­out the his­to­ry of the most famous inter­na­tion­al film festival.
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Mark Jenkin and Mia Hansen-Løve will unveil new films at the 54th Directors’ Fortnight

by David Jenkins

They’ll be joined by fel­low lumi­nar­ies Alex Gar­land and Pietro Mar­cel­lo when the Quin­zaine returns to Cannes next month.
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Claire Denis and David Cronenberg headline the 2022 Cannes Film Festival

by David Jenkins

This year’s stacked line-up also includes new work Kel­ly Reichardt, Ruben Ostlünd and Park Chan-wook – but no David Lynch.
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A handful of pre-announcements foretell a robust Cannes slate

by Charles Bramesco

A hand­ful of big names — Elvis! George Miller! Tom Cruise! — have been locked in pri­or to the offi­cial selection.
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France – first-look review

by Mark Asch

Léa Sey­doux plays a TV jour­nal­ist in Bruno Dumont’s satire-of-sorts about France’s rela­tion­ship with its media and itself.
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Nitram – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Justin Kurzel’s dif­fi­cult dra­ma about a noto­ri­ous mass mur­der­er falls into famil­iar pit­falls of the true crime genre.