#CANNES22: “BROKER” REVIEW
By Amanda Gilmore
Coming off the success of Shoplifters, Writer-Director Hirokazu Kore-eda is back with another beautiful depiction of a chosen family.
So-young (Ji-eun Lee) makes the tough choice to leave her newborn at the Baby Box facility. It’s a place where people can leave their children in the hopes of them being adopted. However, Brokers Sang-hyun (Song Kang-ho) and Dong-soo (Dong-won Gang) make the decision to take the baby home with them in order to sell it to a loving ...
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#CANNES22: “ELVIS” REVIEW
By Amanda Gilmore
Writer-Director Baz Luhrmann takes us on a dazzling ride with the Rock 'n' Roll legend.
The Film is told from the perspective of his manager Colonel Tom Parker (Tom Hanks). We are taken through the life of Elvis (Austin Butler) from his humble beginnings to his tragic early passing. Along the way we see the impact, Elvis has had on music, branding and more within the industry.
It comes as no surprise ...
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#CANNES22: DAY TEN SIGHTINGS – TOM HANKS, BAZ LUHRMANN, AUSTIN BUTLER, MARGARET QUALLEY + JOE ALWYN
While this might be our last day at the Festival, it certainly wasn't our least! The Premiere for Baz Luhrmann's ELVIS took place last night, and the Junket today. The Film not only received a ten-minute standing ovation, but above this, has received the approval of Elvis Presley's family - and there can be no higher honour. Amanda tells us the Film is told more through the lens of Elvis' Manager Colonel Tom Parker, played by Tom Hanks.
From the junket for Baz Luhrmann's ELVIS:
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#CANNES22: “THE SILENT TWINS” REVIEW
By Amanda Gilmore
Director Agnieszka Smoczynska’s latest is based upon the Novel written by Marjorie Wallace about real-life Welsh twins June (Letitia Wright) and Jennifer Gibbons (Tamara Lawrence), who were part of the only Black family in their small town. They would only communicate with one other. Thus, causing the community to believe something was wrong with them. When they grew-up, they were caught vandalizing and sent to Broadmoor, an infamous Psychiatric Hospital, where they face ...
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#CANNES22: “DECISION TO LEAVE” REVIEW
By Amanda Gilmore
Visionary South Korean Director Park Chan-Wook is back with this visually stunning romantic Thriller Noir.
After a man falls to his death from a mountain, Detective Hae-joon (Park Hae-il) meets his widow Seo-rae (Chinese Actress Tang Wei). She seems to be unaffected by the death of her husband. This causes suspicion amongst the detectives in the precinct. All signs point to her as suspect number one. But Hae-joon doesn’t believe that this mysterious woman ...
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#CANNES22: “CRIMES OF THE FUTURE” REVIEW
By Amanda Gilmore
This latest effort from Auteur David Cronenberg takes place sometime in the future when the human species has adapted to a synthetic environment. In doing so, the human body undergoes new transformations and mutations. Saul (Viggo Mortensen) is a man whose organs metamorphosis. This leads him and his partner Caprice (LĂ©a Seydoux) to put on performance art shows where she operates on him, removing one of these mysterious organs at a time. ...
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#CANNES22: DAY 8 SIGHTINGS – KRISTEN STEWART, LÉA SEYDOUX, SCOTT SPEEDMAN, VIGGO MORTENSEN, JAMIE FOXX, SHAUN WHITE + NINA DOBREV
The 2022 Cannes Film Festival might have started a week ago, but the excitement continues to build as David Cronenberg's CRIMES OF THE FUTURE premiered tonight. In attendance were none other than Kristen Stewart, whom our Amanda Gilmore spotted at the Press Junket and Photo Call earlier in a pink Chanel suit. Also in attendance were LĂ©a Seydoux, Scott Speedman and Viggo Mortensen.
Kristen Stewart
LĂ©a Seydoux
Viggo Mortensen
Scott Speedman
The Horror centers on ...
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#CANNES22: “TRIANGLE OF SADNESS” REVIEW
Review by Amanda Gilmore
Fashion Model-Celebrity couple Carl (Harris Dickinson) and Yaya (Charlbi Dean) are having problems…money problems. The main issue is that they have too much of it, which causes issues when it comes to bill time. The truth is, Yaya makes more than Carl but she’ll never pay. While in this rut in their relationship, Yaya’s influencer status gets them a free trip on a yacht. It’s there they meet their fellow uber-wealthy, upper-class, white privileged ...
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#CANNES22: “WAR PONY” REVIEW
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
This impressive First-Feature Debut by Co-Directors Riley Keough and Gina Gammell follows two Oglala Lakota boys on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Bill (Jojo Bapteise Whiting) is a 23-year-old trying to make some money. When he finds an abandoned poodle, he starts his own dog breeding business. While Matho (Ladainian Crazy Thunder) is a 12-year-old desperate for his father's approval. When the unexpected happens, Matho sees no other way ...
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#CANNES22: “BOY FROM HEAVEN” REVIEW
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Adam (Tawfeek Barhom) has a close-knit bond with his family and community in his fishing village in Egypt. Everyone is happy for him when he gets the opportunity to ultimate privilege to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the epicentre of power of Sunni Islam. However, near the start of his education, the highest-ranking Religious Leader dies. Following his death, an informant for the Government is murdered on campus. ...
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