Cannes Report
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‘The Restless’ Film Review: Potent Belgian Drama Explores Family Torn Apart by Bipolarity
Cannes 2021: Damien Bonnard is riveting as an artist struggling with the condition, as is Leïla Bekhti as a wife trying to keep the family together
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‘Nitram’ Film Review: Somber Biographical Drama Tracks an Australian Mass Shooter
Cannes 2021: In Justin Kurzel’s film about the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, Caleb Landry Jones plays a real-life killer with pallid intensity
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Cannes 2021: What Has Sold So Far, From ‘Flag Day’ to ‘Bergman Island’ (Updating)
Hot packages like Zoe Kravitz’s directorial debut “Pussy Island” have also sold during the festival’s virtual film market
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Cannes Report Day 11: ‘Memoria’ Star Tilda Swinton Wins Praise, and So Do Her Dogs
Cannes 2021: Plus, Léa Seydoux’s “France” gets booed, and Neon and Magnolia each make sales
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‘Memoria’ Film Review: Tilda Swinton Stars in a Film From Another Planet
Cannes 2021: In Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s latest philosophical dreamscape, the actress channels David Bowie from “The Man Who Fell to Earth”
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Cannes Report Day 10: Can ‘Red Rocket’ Star Simon Rex Win Best Actor?
Cannes 2021: Plus, a ‘suspicious package’ causes a brief lockdown, and a Hong Kong protest documentary gets added to the slate
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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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Cannes Report Day 9: ‘A Hero’ Emerges as Palme d’Or Contender, ‘Titane’ Adds to Wild Festival
Cannes 2021: Plus, Lea Seydoux cancels her trip and ‘Blue Bayou’ drops a trailer
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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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Celine Dion Biopic ‘Aline’ Boggles Critics at Cannes With 57-Year-Old Playing Singer at Age 12
Cannes 2021: “You have not lived until you have seen this 57-year-old actress-director shrink herself down to Hobbit size to play a pre-teen,” a New York Times writer says
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‘Lingui, The Sacred Bonds’ Acquired by MUBI Out of Cannes
Cannes 2021: The abortion drama from Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun is playing in competition at the festival
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Cannes Report Day 8: Oliver Stone Says Hollywood Won’t Back JFK Doc, ‘French Dispatch’ Wows
Cannes 2021: Plus, the festival catches a break from Emmanuel Macron, and “F9” crashes the beach
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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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Wes Anderson’s ‘The French Dispatch’ Hailed as ‘Relentlessly Wonderful’ and as ‘Playful as They Come’
Cannes 2021: “It packs about 10 different movies in just 2 hours,” one critic writes
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‘JFK Revisited’ Film Review: Oliver Stone Keeps Digging, But He Still Doesn’t Have the Answers
Cannes 2021: In Stone’s new documentary about the JFK assassination, every gun becomes a smoking one, until there’s so much smoke you can’t see anything clearly
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Jason Solomons