Category: cannes 2019

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May 27, 2019

Cannes 2019: Parasite, by Luiz Oliveira

It’s the middle of the Cannes Film Festival and it seems directors’ greatest fear today is not criticism but rather the modern malaise of spoiler culture. Bong Joon-Ho’s latest is preceded by a letter from the South Korean director himself,...

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May 22, 2019

Cannes 2019: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, by Luiz Oliveira

I know you’re expecting this fable to start in the summer of ’69. After all, that’s when the story you know happens, well, happens. But things started going wrong a bit before and when we first meet TV actor Rick...

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May 21, 2019

Cannes 2019: The Lighthouse, by Luiz Oliveira

Not since the Overlook hotel appeared on screen has any piece of remote real estate been so ominous and obviously dangerous as the simple, weather-beaten lighthouse on the coast of Maine that sits atop a cragged landscape in Robert Eggers’...

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May 20, 2019

Cannes 2019: Sorry We Missed You, by Luiz Oliveira

The Turner family, typically blue-collar and traditional (a husband, a wife, a teenage son and a ten year old daughter), are about to try for a more ambitious lot in life when Ricky (Kris Hitchen) realizes that, the way things...

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May 20, 2019

Cannes 2019: Bacurau, by Luiz Oliveira

Something threatening hangs over the village of Bacurau, in western Pernambuco. But perhaps no one cares. After all, in the near future, it has been literally erased from the map. When the new film by Kleber Mendonça Filho, this time...

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May 15, 2019

Cannes 2019: The Dead Don’t Die, by Luiz Oliveira

Those familiar with the work of American auteur Jim Jarmusch know what they’re headed into with his new film, The Dead Don’t Die, a chronicle of a small town that slowly becomes overrun with zombies. His apparent incursion into a new...

Category: cannes 2019

Cannes 2019: Parasite, by Luiz Oliveira

Cannes 2019: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, by Luiz Oliveira

Cannes 2019: The Lighthouse, by Luiz Oliveira

Cannes 2019: Sorry We Missed You, by Luiz Oliveira

Cannes 2019: Bacurau, by Luiz Oliveira

Cannes 2019: The Dead Don’t Die, by Luiz Oliveira

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