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CANNES 2012: And the Winners Should Be...
Read our critics' personal predictions of who SHOULD win the awards, and who WILL win the awards, at Cannes 2012...
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CANNES 2012: Jeff Nichols' MUD
Some film critics have described Jeff Nichols’s "Mud" as the perfect way to end Cannes 2012, a fun and accessible slice of cinematic Americana. But considering the film’s hammy sentimentality and bogus emotional connections, I can’t think of a more disappointing send off.
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CANNES 2012: David Cronenberg's COSMOPOLIS
For a Cronenberg film, "Cosmopolis" is light on violence and body horror, but the director’s obsession with evolving ideas and tainted perspectives remains on full display.
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CANNES 2012: Carlos Reygadas' POST TENEBRAS LUX
Narrative is the devil in Carlos Reygadas’s baffling and intoxicating "Post tenebras lux."
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CANNES 2012: Leos Carax's HOLY MOTORS
Where does one begin with Leos Carax’s insane "Holy Motors"? Maybe its incredible central performance(s) by Denis Lavant, who literally transforms into a different character in nearly every other scene, each one stranger than the next? Or perhaps its stark raving mad narrative that bends so far into...
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CANNES 2012: Abbas Kiarostami's LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE
Denial and delusion ripple the pristine visual surface of "Like Someone in Love," Abbas Kiarostami’s masterful critique of social and emotional formality, set in Japan.
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CANNES 2012: Hong Sangsoo's IN ANOTHER COUNTRY
The screenwriting process produces a kind of sandbox cinema in Hong Sang-soo’s "In Another Country," the Korean director’s latest jazz riff on human interconnection. The film’s beach side location may be consistent with earlier films, but its unique characterizations traverse freely outside the logi...
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Welcome to the Cannes Film Festival!
Editor's Note: Press Play has two critics covering the Cannes Film Festival this year. Simon Abrams and Glenn Heath Jr. are tag-teaming their way through the most anticipated collection of screenings in the film industry. This is your ticket to Cannes. Enjoy!
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CANNES 2012: John Hillcoat's LAWLESS
This is the American outback in all its bloody glory.
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CANNES 2012: Matteo Garrone's REALITY
The classic fairy tale is an artificial creation in Matteo Garrone’s "Reality," something wedding planners and television producers manipulate to create the best possible pomp and circumstance product for their Pavlovian audiences.
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