“What kind of confidence does it take for Cronenberg to say, ‘Yeah, I want to be in the 10th installment of the ‘Friday the 13th’ franchise’?” screenwriter Todd Farmer said.
Cannes: “4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days” director Cristian Mungiu stretches his signature brand of moral thrillers across an entire village.
Vincent Lindon’s filmmaker-heavy jury could go a lot of different directions, but these educated guesses are a good place to start.
The actor has been collaborating with Sam Raimi since “The Evil Dead” came out in 1981.
Cannes exclusive: Exarchopoulos plays the mother of a girl with a most unusual gift of capturing and bottling other people’s scents.
Cannes: Emmanuelle Nicot’s unsettling but effective character study shows a young girl unlearning her father’s lessons about being a woman.
Cannes: “Force Majeure” director Ruben Östlund returns with a frustratingly obtuse comedy about Marxism, superyachts, and the value of beauty.
“The whole room was spinning; it was like I was in a womb,” the director said. “I was so happy.”
She stars in Un Certain Regard title “Corsage,” an irreverently feminist drama that should have been in the official competition.
As a welcome alternative to “Pleasure,” two documentaries honor sex workers as subjects in their own stories, with intimately visceral results.
Cannes: Ulliel and Vicky Krieps are superb in a rare film that allows the cruelty of chronic disease to play out with pessimistic finality.
Cannes: Swedish-Egyptian director Tarik Saleh directs this character study of a young Muslim man who ends up in hell and keeps going.
