MACBETH (UK | USA | France/TBC/113mins) Directed by Justin Kurzel. Starring Muichael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jack Reynor, David Thewlis, Paddy Considine. THE PLOT: As Scotland tears itself apart with civil war, Macbeth (Michael Fassbender) hears a prophecy from a trio...
Thursday in Cannes saw the first real rain of the entire festival. We sadly left the flip flops at home and squelched down to the Palais to see Jacques Audiard’s film In Competition; DHEEPAN. The film tells the story of...
THE LITTLE PRINCE (France/TBC/108mins) Directed by Mark Osborne. Starring Rachel McAdams, Paul Rudd, James Franco, Marion Cotillard, Mackenzie Foy, Jeff...
CHRONIC (USA/TBC/90mins) Directed by Michel Fanco. Starring Tim Roth, Bitsie Tulloch, Claire van der Boom, David Dastmalchian, Sarah Sutherland, Tate...
VALLEY OF LOVE (France/TBC/91mins) Directed by Guillaume Nicloux. Starring Isabelle Huppert, Gerard Depardieu. THE PLOT: Isabelle (Isabelle Huppert) and Gerard (Gerard Depardieu) meet in the sweltering hot Death Valley. The couple were once married, and their son Michael has sent...
After the manic excitement of Saturday on the Croisette, Sunday was a much more relaxed affair as we mostly spent the day in cinemas or in various pavilions in the International Village. The first screening of the day was Maiwenn’s...
MON ROI (France/TBC/130mins) Directed by Maïwenn. Starring Emmanuelle Berco, Vincent Cassel, Louis Garrel, Ludovic Berthillot, Camille Cottin, Félix Bossuet. THE...
IRRATIONAL MAN (USA/TBC/96mins) Directed by Woody Allen. Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Parker Posey. THE PLOT: Abe (Joaquin Phoenix) is the typical clichéd tortured professor; he struggles to find a meaning for life, although he seems Romantic to those around...
SON OF SAUL (Hungary/TBC/97mins) Directed by László Nemes. Starring Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn, Sándor Zsótér, Todd Charmont, Christian Harting and Kamil Dobrowolski. THE PLOT: In the final days of Nazi Germany, a Hungarian prisoner at a concentration camp...
LOUDER THAN BOMBS (Norway | France | Denmark/15A/105mins) Directed by Joaquim Trier.Starring Isabelle Huppert, Gabriel Byrne, Jesse Eisenberg, Devin Druid....
