Cannes 2014

Features

The Young and Prodigious Xavier Dolan

Unless you’ve been recently binge-watching all of the hot messes involved in Hollywood’s Annual Grand Carnival of Self-Congratulatory Wankery aka the Oscars, subsequently rendering you incapable of seeing real cinematic…

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Film Reviews

White God (2015)

Just when you thought that dogs are the most infinitely lovable and devoted creatures you think they are, Hungarian filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó punches through a poetic yet blistering slice of…

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Features

The Ten Definitive Nicole Kidman Performances

Grace of Monaco is released this weekend, and for those in-the-know, Olivier Dahan’s take on Grace Kelly’s regimented and conflicted Mónegasque, post-Hollywood life has recently been under fire in Cannes…

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Cannes Film Festival 2014: According to The Moviejerk Jury

So, the funster Nuri Bilge Ceylan won the Palme d’Or for his snoozefest Winter Sleep, the only film I’ve seen in Cannes this year where I actively engaged in a…

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Cannes 2014 Journal: Day Nine

It’s been a whirlwind week-and-a-half here in Cannes, and my last day has sadly arrived. The days fly by quickly when you’re having fun, indeed. It’s been a fabulous, stimulating…

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Cannes 2014: Mommy

There’s no stopping Xavier Dolan. Where many other filmmakers flit from one genre to the next, masking inconsistency with the desire to experiment, the 25-year old Québécois supremely talented, young…

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Cannes 2014: Maps to the Stars

Canadian stalwart David Cronenberg, who also happens to be one the world’s finest and most consistent filmmakers working today, has dealt with plenty of psychos in his entire career and…

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Cannes 2014: Foxcatcher

There have been many films made about wrestling and even moreso about America’s ruling elite, and Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher is perhaps one of the most muted and sombre evocations of…

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Cannes 2014 Journal: Day Eight

Film criticism is not a walk in the park, I tell you. Eight days into the festival with nearly twenty films crossed out and I’m still catching up with reviews.…

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Cannes 2014 Journal: Day Seven

My faith in cinema has been gloriously restored today by the new Dardenne brothers film Two Days, One Night (or its much better sounding title Deux Jours, Une Nuit). Perhaps…

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Cannes 2014: Two Days, One Night

We’ve already witnessed the superficial woes of the privileged class in the Croisette. Now, Belgian masters Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne are bringing cinema back down to the ground to depict…

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Cannes 2014 Journal: Day Six

Cannes has turned magnificently shitty today, pouring down with rain and lashing wet winds all day. Just when you thought it’s all perpetual sunshine in the Riviera. So I mostly…

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Cannes 2014: The Homesman

Wedged somewhere in between social realist dramas, biopics and Hollywood satires in Cannes this year is this Western by Tommy Lee Jones, who makes a sort-of-comeback into the filmmaking scene…

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Cannes 2014: Saint Laurent

Fashion biopics are slippery beasts – in their attempt to capture something ephemeral yet iconic, they subsequently turn familiar and forgettable, favouring ravishing style and pretty shots over meaty substance.…

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Cannes 2014 Journal: Day Five

Sundays are meant to be spent relaxing in bed with tea and croissant, and then fuelling up the entire day with Pinot Grigio while you lounge around in your shorts…

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Cannes 2014 Journal: Day Four

Fourth day into the festival and I’m already debilitated. I know, I know – we, the folks in Cannes, all have to do is queue up, sit down, watch film…

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Cannes 2014: How To Train Your Dragon 2

Cannes customarily shoehorns family-friendly animated films into the festival programme to give light-hearted breaks inbetween the godforsaken socio-realist miseries that inundate the competition strands. The offering this year is Dean…

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Cannes 2014: Winter Sleep

Oh, Ceylan. It must be such a tremendous hardwork to come up with a 3-hour and 16-minute epic and all I can heave is a nonchalant sigh. I liked Once…

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Cannes 2014 Journal: Day Three

I haven’t missed a press film screening in Cannes so far (despite of my lowest-of-the-low shit-coloured badge), thanks to the majestic 2,000+ seating capacity of the Grand Théâtre Lumière. Three…

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Cannes 2014: The Captive

Let me confess – I haven’t seen that many Atom Egoyan films, but allow me to offer you , a fresh perspective on his latest one The Captive, which premiered…

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