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Hög på Nespressokaffe vandrade FLM runt på Croisetten, sov i städskrubbar och såg några av årets bästa filmer. Här är premiärerna från Cannes att se fram emot. […]
Post-Colonial Capitalistic Landscape: Selections from Cannes 2025
By Ali Moosavi. The difficult, tumultuous relationship between Celine and Margueritte is at the core of Love Letters, while Félix Dufour-Laperrière delivers Death Does Not Exist.“ The films in the main competition […]
Promising Side Programs: Selections from Cannes 2023
By Ali Moosavi. Selections from Un Certain Regard, Directors’ Fortnight, Critics’ Week, and ACID.” Often ignored are the side programs of Cannes, including Un Certain Regard, Directors’ Fortnight, Critics’ Week, ACID (Association for the International […]
Panorama of Change: Venus By Water (Cannes 2021)
By Yun-hua Chen. A tribute to all women who flourish against all odds, showing unusual maturity and sobriety for a debut film.” A panoramic view on women’s living conditions in a southern Chinese […]
A Rural Portrait of China: Ripples of Life (Cannes 2021)
By Yun-hua Chen. With such a team, it is thus no surprise that Ripples of Life is able to tellingly allude to Chinese arthouse cinema’s current trend of exploring rural portraits, examine unequal […]
Ambiance over Narrative: Are You Lonesome Tonight? (Cannes 2021)
By Yun-hua Chen. With its fair share of problems, Are You Lonesome Tonight attempts to be unpredictable…like a film which indulges itself in ambiance at the expense of narrative.” Rarely do we see […]
A Traditional Period Piece: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Cannes 2019)
By Ali Moosavi. Twenty-five years ago Pulp Fiction premiered at Cannes, won the Palm D’Or, and had an everlasting impact on the art of film making. Numerous films have been influenced by its […]
At War with Trump, Etc: 2018 Cannes, Week One
By Ali Moosavi. The honor of opening the 71st Cannes Film Festival went to the Iranian director, and multi Oscar winner, Asghar Farhadi’s new film Everybody Knows. This thriller stars the real-life couple […]
There is No “There” Anymore: Shin Su-Won on Madonna (2015)
By Amir Ganjavie. What is particularly amazing about new Korean movies is their ability to be simultaneously popular and very critical of Korean society. We have already see this in masterpieces likes Memories of Murder ([…]