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‘The Story of My Wife’ Film Review: Old Style Euro-Pudding Epic Wears Out Its Welcome
Cannes 2021: Ildiko Enyedi’s art-house bling is artfully decorated and impeccably tailored, but nothing happens
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‘Deception’ Film Review: French Philip Roth Adaptation Is an Awful Slog to Sit Through
Cannes 2021: Despite the handsome production values, director Arnaud Desplechin’s talky drama is a postcard for archivists and a curio for obsessives
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‘Petrov’s Flu’ Film Review: Provocative Russian Drama Is Exhilarating and Exhausting
Cannes 2021: Kirill Serebrennikov made a formidable piece of filmmaking that also uses its own virtuoso technique as a blunt-force tool against the audience
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‘Compartment No. 6’ Film Review: Finnish Drama Is a Slow-Moving Train to Revelation
Cannes 2021: The story of a Finnish architecture student and a Russian boor sharing a train compartment is deliberate in pace and wintry in tone
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‘The Divide’ Film Review: Catherine Corsini Tackles French Troubles With Gallows Humor
Cannes 2021: The film wrangles the country’s various cultural, racial and social tensions under one leaky roof
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‘Playground’ Film Review: School Is Hell in Brutal Belgian Drama
Cannes 2021: First-time director Laura Wandel takes a schoolyard tale and treats it with same hard-nosed intensity as a prison thriller or war film
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‘Everything Went Fine’ Film Review: Francois Ozon Shaves the Rough Edges Off Euthanasia Story
Cannes 2021: Veteran French director has made a resolutely unsentimental and surprisingly genteel family drama starring Sophie Marceau
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‘Between Two Worlds’ Film Review: Juliette Binoche Puts a French Spin on ‘Nomadland’
Cannes 2021: Emmanuel Carrere’s drama stars Binoche as an author who tries to experience the gig economy firsthand
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Cannes Kicks Off With Onslaught of COVID Testing: ‘We’re Already Experts in Saliva’
Cannes 2021: The festival promised a global celebration, but for now it’s all about testing — and spit
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After Triumph and Tragedy, Cannes Gets a Reboot
TheWrap magazine: Cannes looks to find its footing with an in-person festival a year after canceling 2020 entirely because of the pandemic
