All France articles – Page 56
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‘The Dam’: Cannes Review
Ali Cherri’s Directors’ Fortnight feature debut about a Sudanese brick-maker is a striking allegorical tale
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‘Nostalgia’: Cannes Review
Pierfrancesco Favino anchors Mario Martone’s passionate contemporary ghost story set in Naples
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‘Tori And Lokita’: Cannes Review
The Dardenne brothers’ moving exposé on migrants arriving in Europe is up with their finest
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‘Our Brothers’: Cannes Review
Rachid Bouchareb returns to Cannes with a sobering story about the December 1986 Paris protests and police brutality
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‘The Five Devils’: Cannes Review
A girl’s powerful sense of smell suddenly starts to evoke times before she was born in Lea Mysius’ follow-up to ‘Ava’
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News
French give “loss of habit’ as key reason for not going to cinema post-pandemic
National Cinema Centre study probes ongoing 30% shortfall in cinema admissions a year after theatres reopened.
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‘Feminist Riposte’: Cannes Review
Engaged, spirited documentary following a new wave of feminist activists across France
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‘De Humani Corporis Fabrica’: Cannes Review
Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor explore the human body in intimate detail in their immersive documentary
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‘The Super 8 Years’: Cannes Review
A snapshot of the life of French writer Annie Ernaux, as told through lively home video footage
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News
Mad Solutions takes MENA rights to Soudade Kaadan’s ‘Nezouh’
It is Kaadan’s second feature after The Day I Lost My Shadow, which won Venice’s Luigi De Laurentiis Award for best first film in 2018.
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Vytautas Katkus’s ‘The Visitor’ wins Critics’ Week Next Step project prize
The prize is connected to the parallel section’s Next Step programme helping directors move from shorts to features.
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‘My Imaginary Country’: Cannes Review
Focusing on the protests of October 2019, Patricio Guzman’s involving doc reveals a Chile that is hungry for change
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‘November’: Cannes Review
Cédric Jimenez’s dramatic thriller about the November 13 Paris Bataclan terrorist attack is muscular but messy
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‘Irma Vep’: Cannes Review (TV)
Olivier Assayas reworks his own film in this cannily crafted and enjoyable meta investigation of today’s image culture and early cinema
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News
KimStim acquires Berlinale Encounters winner ‘Unrest’ (exclusive)
Paris-based Alpha Violet handles international sales on period drama exploring the birth of the anarchist movement in a Swiss valley.
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‘Smoking Causes Coughing’: Cannes Review
Quentin Dupieux returns with a frothy, loose ode to TV superheroes of old
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‘Don Juan’: Cannes Review
Serge Bozon’s offbeat musical interpretation of Molière’s work stars Tahar Rahim and Virginie Efira
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‘Forever Young’: Cannes Review
A celebrated French theatre school in the 1980s is the setting for Valeria Bruni Tedeschi’s excitable drama
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‘Holy Spider’: Cannes Review
A spate of murders in the holy city of Mashhad is at the heart of Ali Abbasi’s arresting Iranian noir
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‘The Worst Ones’: Cannes Review
The burgeoning genre of street-kid cinema is lampooned in this unbalanced satire