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Cannes 2012 preview: Hello boys
Nick James is on the plane to a man’s man’s man’s man’s Cannes.
Tuesday 15 May 2012 -
Cannes 2012: Great expectations
Cannes is where all the best directors are, says Geoff Andrew.
Wednesday 16 May 2012 -
Cannes 2012: Fleeting pleasures – Moonrise Kingdom
Day one, and Nick James is in two minds about Wes Anderson’s scout-island fantasia.
Thursday 17 May 2012 -
Cannes 2012: Simple versus simple – After the Battle
Yousry Nasrallah’s instantly derided melodrama of Egypt’s 25 January Revolution may simplify, says Nick Roddck – but at least it does so differently…
Friday 18 May 2012 -
Student review: crime and punishment in Kazakhstan
With the 2012 Cannes Film Festival’s slow start continuing, Geoff Andrew singles out a quietly resonant new riff on Dostoevsky in its Un Certain Regard sidebar.
Friday 18 May 2012 -
Cannes 2012: ‘No’ for a lighter, nicer Chile
Demetrios Matheou sees Pablo Larraín close out his trilogy about Chile’s years of dictatorship with wit and verve.
Saturday 19 May 2012 -
Cannes 2012: The wrong earlobes – The Imposter
Tom Charity on a smart doc fresh from Toronto’s HotDocs and Sundance – and Bernard Rose revisit Tolstoy in Hollywood.
Saturday 19 May 2012 -
Cannes 2012: Nuns on the verge of a nervous breakdown – Cristian Mungiu’s Beyond the Hills
Geoff Andrew on the Palme d’Or alumnus’s return to the Competition.
Sunday 20 May 2012 -
Cannes 2012: Sex on tap – Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise: Love
The Austrian director’s sex-tourism drama could be his richest film yet, says Pamela Jahn.
Sunday 20 May 2012 -
Cannes 2012: Love by Michael Haneke
Nick James checks his notes: the festival’s most tender as well as telling film so far comes from the Austrian disciplinarian.
Monday 21 May 2012 -
Cannes 2012: Mortal mischief – Raúl Ruiz’s La Noche de Enfrente
Jonathan Romney on the late Chilean master’s fond farewell to a life of artistic delinquency.
Monday 21 May 2012 -
Cannes 2012: Last works and wakes – Alain Resnais in the underworld
Amy Taubin hopes death succeeds patriarchy as the flavour of this year’s festival.
Tuesday 22 May 2012 -
Cannes 2012: Cinema-chewing: Leos Carax’s Holy Motors
Demetrios Matheou wonders at the French former wunderkind’s madly eclectic meta-movie – and, less happily, at a directorial feature debut from actress Sandrine Bonnaire.
Wednesday 23 May 2012 -
Me and You first look: Bernard Bertolucci goes underground
Geoff Andrew sees the veteran master make his long-awaited return with a modest, subterranean two-hander.
Wednesday 23 May 2012 -
Cannes 2012: Slow war cinema and Bollysploitation
Jonathan Romney hails the Tolstoy-esque simplicity of Sergei Loznitsa’s possibly bleak, certainly slow In the Fog – and the meta-Troma invention of Ashim Ahluwalia’s Miss Lovely.
Friday 25 May 2012 -
Cannes 2012: Muddy waters run deep
Geoff Andrew sees Take Shelter director Jeff Nichols close out this year’s Competition with an impressive Southern river adventure that owes a debt to Mark Twain.
Saturday 26 May 2012 -
Cannes 2012: A history of violence – After Lucia
Demetrios Matheou on this year’s Un Certain Regard winner, a powerful study of grief and abuse.
Tuesday 29 May 2012
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