Tag: Cannes 2015

Icelandic director Grímur Hákonarson has been making films since 2002, but his filmography  comprises only two features.  After being nominated for ...

In 2013, Blue Ruin burst onto the scene, a grim whirlwind of stripped down revenge and graphic violence. Keeping to ...

It’s hardboiled romance South Korean writer/director Oh Seung-uk promises, and it’s hardboiled romance he delivers. With Kim Nam-gil, a leading ...

With a small, eclectic collection of Jury members, Cannes is prone to throw up surprises. The 68th edition has proven ...

The red carpet is rolled up, market stalls have been dismantled and luxury yachts head off to the next party ...

There’s a strong dose of physician heal thyself in Chronic, Michel Franco’s third feature. Tim Roth’s nurse may be supremely ...

Justin Kurzel certainly knows how to capture a sense of time and place. Snowtown, his grim suburban serial killer debut ...

No matter how international they purport to be, all film festivals have to be based somewhere. The impulse to give ...

Adapting The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s incredibly popular story first published in 1943, does not come without risk. Deciding ...

I’ve experienced a lot of different things in the cinema, but the onset of agoraphobia is a new one. So ...