#CANNES: CANADIAN FILMES TO PREMIERE AT CANNES 2024

The announcement of the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival marks the largest Canadian presence at the festival in the last 12 years. More than 300 Canadians from across the country will be on the Croisette from May 14 to 25, 2024. In the official selection, Ali Abbasi's The Apprentice (his third film in the official selection at Cannes) and David Cronenberg's The Shrouds (his seventh film in the official selection at Cannes) have been selected for competition. In the short film ... Read more

#CANNES: “ANATOMY OF A FALL” REVIEW

By Amanda Gilmore No one does a courtroom drama better than the French. Last year Director Alice Diop brought us the engrossing Saint Omer and this year Director Justine Triet brings us the riveting Anatomy of a Fall. It follows Sandra (Sandra Hüller), a well-esteemed writer, who lives in a secluded cabin in the French Alps with her husband Samuel (Samuel Theis) and their partially blind son Daniel (Milo Machado Graner). One ... Read more

#CANNES: QUENTIN TARANTINO CANNES 2023 Q&A

Quentin Tarantino returned to Cannes, site of where he won the 1994 Palme d'Or with Pulp Fiction. He appeared as a guest of the Directors' Fortnight competition, presenting a secret screening of the John Flynn classic ROLLING THUNDER. On why he chose this Film specifically, he tells the audience that he saw it opening night back in 1977 with his mom, the Film screening as part of a double-billing to ENTER THE DRAGON. He wound-up loving ROLLING THUNDER so much that he almost forgot about ENTER ... Read more

#CANNES: “ASTEROID CITY” REVIEW

By Amanda Gilmore Visionary Director Wes Anderson delivers a witty Sci-Fi about loneliness. Asteroid City is about a TV show broadcast about a play that’s about people visiting a place called Asteroid City. Yes, you read the correctly. In typical quirky Anderson fashion, he brings us into this story through a character telling a story. In so doing, he delivers layers of themes that merge into one universal look at humanity. Anderson first ... Read more

#CANNES: “THE IDOL” REVIEW

By Amanda Gilmore Sam Levinson’s latest TV Series is Euphoria meets 50 Shades of Grey, while set in the world of a Pop Superstar. The first two episodes, which screened Out of Competition at Cannes, sets up the mindset of Jocelyn (Lily-Rose Depp). She recently lost her mother which led to a nervous breakdown that derailed her last tour. Now she’s releasing anticipated new music with the hope to be the greatest, sexiest pop star in America. However, she’s still grieving over her ... Read more

#CANNES: “FALLEN LEAVES”

By Amanda Gilmore Finnish Writer-Director Aki Kaurismäki is back with his signature deadpan humour in this delightful romance about two lost souls. Ansa (Alma Pöysti) is a middle-aged woman who goes from job to job. Holappa (Jussi Vatanen) is a middle-aged man who loses work due to drinking on the job. By chance, they meet one night in a bar in Helsinki. However, a subsequent series of terrible mishaps attempts to keep them apart. But that won’t stop them from attempting to be with ... Read more

#CANNES: “FIREBRAND” REVIEW

By Amanda Gilmore Jude Law is superbly horrendous as Henry VIII in Director Karim Aïnouz’s first English-language Film. Firebrand begins with the King’s sixth and final wife, Catherine Parr (Alicia Vikander), left in charge while he’s away. When he returns, obese with swollen oozy legs, Catherine is forced to the side once again. She sees a better way to rule and hopes to influence her husband in the right direction. However, will that determination cause her to end up like her ... Read more

#CANNES: “MAY DECEMBER” REVIEW

By Amanda Gilmore Director Todd Haynes’ campy Dark Comedy May December is a sharp look at trauma and a critique of Hollywood’s invasive nature. Actress Elizabeth Berry (Natalie Portman) travels to Savannah, Georgia to research her newest role. It’s for a biographical Film of a notorious tabloid romance between Gracie (Julianne Moore) and Joe (Charles Melton) that happened 20 years prior. Lucky ... Read more

#CANNES: “KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON” REVIEW

By Amanda Gilmore Director Martin Scorsese is back with the '20s set Killers of the Flower Moon. The story, adapted from the true story and novel by David Grann, focuses on members of the Osage Native American tribe of Osage County, Oklahoma. During the ‘20s, oil was found on the tribe’s land. It gave them wealth but also made them a target. Soon after discovering the oil, White people flocked to Osage Country in search of wealth. William Hale (Robert De ... Read more

#CANNES: “THE ZONE OF INTEREST”

By Amanda Gilmore Writer-Director Jonathan Glazer’s fourth feature is a chilling look at the banality of evil. Freely adapted from Martin Amis’s Holocaust novel, The Zone of Interest follows the domestic life of the family of Auschwitz camp commandant Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel). Leave it to Glazer to deliver one of the most spine-chilling films of the year. The majority of the Film observes the idyllic life of this horrific family. The opening scene shows them sitting in a ... Read more