Sight & Sound articles
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In the land of Reagan, right-thinking types are shocked – shocked – at the rise of a prime-time blowhard and professional bully. Yet isn’t it our media naivety that’s on show here, asks Robert Greene?
Thursday 26 May 2016 -
Divines review: an exuberant young female buddy thriller
This go-its-own-way banlieu barnstormer from the self-taught Houda Benyamina was officially the best debut feature at Cannes 2016, says Isabel Stevens.
Sunday 22 May 2016 -
Isabel Stevens on Laura Poitras’s righteous, embedded portrait of Julian Assange and two years of WikiLeaking.
Sunday 22 May 2016 -
The Death of Louis XIV – first look
Six decades after The 400 Blows, Jean-Pierre Léaud plays the dying Sun King in a stately, majestic study of flesh and emblems from Albert Serra – surely the most beautiful film at Cannes 2016.
Sunday 22 May 2016 -
Cannes 2016: all the awards, and reaction
Ken Loach wins his second Palme d’Or, Andrea Arnold wins her third Jury Prize and Iran’s Asghar Farhadi wins two awards for best actor and screenplay – but Maren Ade’s widely admired Toni Erdmann leaves empty-handed. Do juries shun comedies? Do actors always lean to theatre stories, wonders Nick James?
Sunday 22 May 2016 -
A typically inimitable Isabelle Huppert takes no prisoners in Paul Verhoeven’s typically black-comic provocation, a rape-reaction art melodrama that’s his first film in ten years, writes Geoff Andrew.
Sunday 22 May 2016 -
For our second annual showcase of the festival’s best posters, we picked two winners – from a wonderfully rich field. Is a festival the best place to see the uncompromised art of the film poster, asks Isabel Stevens?
Sunday 22 May 2016 -
Chloe Roddick hails a fresh feminine (and sororal) horror from French first feature director Julia Ducournau, set in the blank spaces of a veterinary college.
Saturday 21 May 2016 -
Cannes 2016 roundup: what should win?
With the latter half of this year’s competition as discouraging as the first week was inspiring, Germany’s Maren Ade seems as deserving an awards candidate as the likes of Olivier Assayas, Jim Jarmusch, Kleber Mendoça Filho and Cristian Mungiu, says Nick James.
Saturday 21 May 2016 -
From the Magazine
Film of the week: Heart of a Dog
Laurie Anderson circles death in this paean to her late dog, and other lost loves, that’s less free-associative than it initially seems, says Nick Pinkerton.
Friday 20 May 2016
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