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‘Julie Keeps Quiet’ Review: Riveting Debut From Belgium Exposes the Ruptured Relationship Between a Teenage Tennis Star and Her Coach
Leonardo Van Dijl’s first feature casts young athlete Tessa Van den Broeck as a player whose own trauma is heightened by a fellow academy member’s suicide.
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‘Motel Destino’ Review: Karim Aïnouz’s Tropical Noir Conjures a Potent Atmosphere of Heat, Desire and Danger Even if the Payoff Loses Steam
An uneasy triangle forms when a young man in trouble with his criminal cohorts shacks up at a seedy roadside sex hotel in a Brazilian beach town.
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‘Grand Tour’ Review: Miguel Gomes’ Asia-Set Fever Dream Is Beguiling and Elusive
The director of 'Tabu' and 'Arabian Nights' plays Cannes' main competition for the first time with a movie that shifts between past and present, documentary and fiction.
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‘Gazer’ Review: A Striking ‘Memento’-Like Noir That Keeps Viewers at a Stylish Distance
A young mother with a deteriorating neurological condition gets caught up in a deadly mystery in this Cannes-bowing feature directorial debut by Ryan J. Sloan.
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‘Elementary’ Review: Claire Simon’s Compassionate Study of French Public Education
In her latest doc, which premiered at Cannes, the French director observes the daily life of a primary school in a suburb of Paris.
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‘Being Maria’ Review: ‘Last Tango in Paris’ Star Maria Schneider Gets a Behind-the-Scenes Biopic That Starts Strong but Fizzles Out
Anamaria Vartolomei ('Happening') plays the troubled French actress — alongside Matt Dillon as Marlon Brando — in Jessica Palud's film.
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‘Armand’ Review: Ingmar Bergman’s Grandson Directs Renate Reinsve as a Mother Defending Her Son in Ambitious School-Set Drama
Writer-director Halfdan Ullmann Tondel makes his feature debut with this contender in Cannes' Un Certain Regard section.
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‘Parthenope’ Review: Paolo Sorrentino’s Taste for Baroque Virtuosity Delivers a Lavish Banquet That’s Too Rich to Digest
Newcomer Celeste Dalla Porta stars in this story tracing the life of a Neapolitan woman as a reflection of the city itself, also featuring Stefania Sandrelli, Gary Oldman and Silvio Orlando.
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‘The Story of Souleymane’ Review: A Tough and Tender Look at a Migrant Worker Trying to Survive in the City of Lights
French director Boris Lojkine's third feature follows an African immigrant navigating Paris' labyrinthine streets as he struggles to make a living and get legalized. Â
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‘Marcello Mio’ Review: Chiara Mastroianni Transforms Into Her Father in Christophe Honoré’s Heartfelt if Tedious Cinema Homage
The latest collaboration between the actress and director also features Catherine Deneuve, Fabrice Luchini, Melvil Poupaud and several other French talents playing themselves on screen.
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‘Anora’ Review: Mikey Madison is a Delightfully Scrappy Force in Sean Baker’s Cracked Cinderella Story
A young sex worker’s romantic entanglement with the son of a Russian oligarch gets very messy in this screwball comedy set in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn.
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‘Ernest Cole: Lost and Found’ Review: Raoul Peck Poignantly Explores the Vital Work of a South African Photographer
The 'I Am Not Your Negro' filmmaker's latest investigates a mysterious cache of Cole's images, with LaKeith Stanfield giving voice to the chronicler of South African life.
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‘Lula’ Review: Oliver Stone Chronicles the Dramatic Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Brazil’s Current President
The filmmaker's latest doc, co-directed with Rob Wilson, features a lengthy interview with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva that revisits the politician’s rollercoaster of a career.
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‘Misericordia’ Review: Alain Guiraudie’s Twisted Small-Town Tale of Murder and Sexual Repression
The latest feature from the director of 'Stranger by the Lake' stars Félix Kysyl as a man who returns to his French village and stirs up plenty of trouble.
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‘The Apprentice’ Review: Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong Are Superb in Chilling Account of the Unholy Alliance That Birthed Donald Trump
Maria Bakalova and Martin Donovan also star in Ali Abbasi’s detailed chronicle of the future U.S. president’s rise in the 1970s and ‘80s under the tutelage of cutthroat lawyer Roy Cohn.
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‘The Falling Sky’ Review: A Vivid Portrait of an Indigenous People’s Urgent Fight for Survival
Premiering in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, the documentary spends time with the Yanomami people of the northern Amazon as they prepare for a sacred ritual and monitor the incursions of illegal miners.
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