Cannes Report
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‘Girls of the Sun’ Film Review: A Middle Eastern Feminist Hero Slays ISIS
Cannes 2018: The story of a female Kurdish unit brings to vivid life the stories we have all read but found so hard to imagine
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‘The World Is Yours’ Film Review: Romain Gavras’ Pop Comedy Is an Absolute Blast
Cannes 2018: Music-video director Romain Gavras has created a “Blues Brothers”-like jaunt for a generation raised on Adderall and French hip hop
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‘To the Ends of the World’ Film Review: At Last, Here’s France’s Vietnam War Movie
Cannes 2018: Guillaume Nicloux brings a touch of European art film to the conflict that has inspired American films like “Platoon” and “Apocalypse Now”
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Marion Cotillard’s Careless Motherhood Hurts in ‘Angel Face’
Cannes 2018: Cotillard plays bleached-blonde Marlene, the hard-drinking party girl who seems barely aware that she is a mother
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‘Secret Garden’ Gets North American Distribution Deal With Global Road
Cannes: Film based on classic children’s novel stars Colin Firth and Julie Walters
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Cate Blanchett Calls for ‘Parity and Transparency’ in Red Carpet Protest of Gender Inequity in Cannes
“We encourage all the women and men in the world who are standing for change,” Blanchett said in a speech with director Agnes Varda
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Cannes Report, Day 4: Sales Market Heats Up, ‘355’ Sparks Bidding War, Jean-Luc Godard Is Back
Cannes 2018: Rights to films are being bought and there’s even a bidding war going on for a package
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Jessica Chastain Spy Thriller ‘355’ Lands at Universal After Bidding War
Cannes 2018: Universal nabs the film that also stars Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Lupita Nyong’o and Fan Bingbing
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‘Girl’ Film Review: Transgender Teen Drama Is a True Cannes Discovery
Cannes 2018: The gentle but wrenching film about a teenager who “just wants to be a girl” is the first work from 26-year-old Belgian director Lukas Dhont
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‘Ash Is Purest White’ Film Review: The Characters Have Growing Pains, and So Does China
Cannes 2018: Like director Jia Zhang-Ke’s previous films, this one argues that China’s rapid economic rise has hardly benefited its numerous inhabitants
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Netflix Buys Animated Film ‘Next Gen’ for $30 Million
Cannes 2018: Voice cast includes Jason Sudeikis, David Cross, Michael Peña and Constance Wu
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Keanu Reeves Thriller ‘Siberia’ Picked Up by Saban Films
Cannes 2018: Matthew Ross directs crime thriller also starring Molly Ringwald
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‘Birds of Passage’ Film Review: You’ve Never Seen a Gangster Movie Like This Before
Cannes 2018: Ciro Guerra’s followup to the Oscar-nominated “Embrace of the Serpent” aims to expand the gangster genre
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Cannes Report, Day 3: Women Rule, ‘Cold War’ Hailed as ‘Best Film’ Yet
Ryan Coogler’s panel nabbed headlines while acquisitions are heating up
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Neon Picks Up Troll Love Story ‘Border’
Cannes 2018: Ali Abbas’ feature based on novel by author of “Let the Right One In”