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‘Black Dog’ Review: Man Bites Dog, Becomes His Best Friend in Gorgeously Offbeat Canine Caper From China
Director Guan Hu ('The Eight Hundred,' 'Mr. Six') won the top prize in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard sidebar for his darkly comic thriller starring Canadian-Taiwanese actor Eddie Peng.
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‘Universal Language’ Review: An Amusingly Offbeat Homage To Iranian Cinema, by Way of Winnipeg
The second feature by Canadian filmmaker Matthew Rankin ('The Twentieth Century') won the first-ever Directors’ Fortnight audience award in Cannes.
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A Trans Drug Kingpin, Masturbating Zombies and Emma Stone: THR’s Critics Pick the 20 Best Films of Cannes 2024
A Danish drama about an unwanted pregnancy, a portrait of two nurses chasing romance in Mumbai and a Corsican mafia thriller are among other standouts from the world's pre-eminent film festival.
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‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’ Review: Mohammad Rasoulof’s Powerful Indictment of Iranian Oppression Through the Eyes of One Unraveling Family
The writer-director ('There Is No Evil'), who fled Iran after receiving an eight-year prison sentence, unveiled his new film in Cannes’ main competition.
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‘Beating Hearts’ Review: Love Conquers All, Including Good Taste, in Overwrought French Crime Romance Starring Adèle Exarchopoulos
French actor turned director Gilles Lellouche’s sophomore effort also features François Civil and Vincent Lacoste.
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‘All We Imagine as Light’ Review: A Moving and Luminous Chronicle of Two Women Searching for Connection in Mumbai
Payal Kapadia’s competition entry stars Kani Kusruti and Divya Prabha as a pair of nurses who've settled in India’s largest city.
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‘To a Land Unknown’ Review: A Gritty Drama About Young Palestinians Caught in an Eternal State of Exile
Writer-director Mahdi Fleifel's second feature follows a pair of immigrants in Athens, trying however they can to make it out.
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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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‘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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‘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.
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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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‘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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