Cannes
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Cannes Report Day 10: Can ‘Red Rocket’ Star Simon Rex Win Best Actor?
Cannes 2021: Plus, a ‘suspicious package’ causes a brief lockdown, and a Hong Kong protest documentary gets added to the slate
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‘The Story of My Wife’ Film Review: Old Style Euro-Pudding Epic Wears Out Its Welcome
Cannes 2021: Ildiko Enyedi’s art-house bling is artfully decorated and impeccably tailored, but nothing happens
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Cannes Report Day 9: ‘A Hero’ Emerges as Palme d’Or Contender, ‘Titane’ Adds to Wild Festival
Cannes 2021: Plus, Lea Seydoux cancels her trip and ‘Blue Bayou’ drops a trailer
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Léa Seydoux Drops Out of Cannes Film Festival After Testing Positive for COVID-19
The French actress, who has four films at the festival, will self-isolate in Paris according to French mandates
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‘Deception’ Film Review: French Philip Roth Adaptation Is an Awful Slog to Sit Through
Cannes 2021: Despite the handsome production values, director Arnaud Desplechin’s talky drama is a postcard for archivists and a curio for obsessives
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Celine Dion Biopic ‘Aline’ Boggles Critics at Cannes With 57-Year-Old Playing Singer at Age 12
Cannes 2021: “You have not lived until you have seen this 57-year-old actress-director shrink herself down to Hobbit size to play a pre-teen,” a New York Times writer says
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Cannes Report Day 8: Oliver Stone Says Hollywood Won’t Back JFK Doc, ‘French Dispatch’ Wows
Cannes 2021: Plus, the festival catches a break from Emmanuel Macron, and “F9” crashes the beach
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‘Petrov’s Flu’ Film Review: Provocative Russian Drama Is Exhilarating and Exhausting
Cannes 2021: Kirill Serebrennikov made a formidable piece of filmmaking that also uses its own virtuoso technique as a blunt-force tool against the audience
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Wes Anderson’s ‘The French Dispatch’ Hailed as ‘Relentlessly Wonderful’ and as ‘Playful as They Come’
Cannes 2021: “It packs about 10 different movies in just 2 hours,” one critic writes
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‘JFK Revisited’ Film Review: Oliver Stone Keeps Digging, But He Still Doesn’t Have the Answers
Cannes 2021: In Stone’s new documentary about the JFK assassination, every gun becomes a smoking one, until there’s so much smoke you can’t see anything clearly
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Cannes Report Day 7: ‘Bergman Island’ Dances to ABBA , ‘Drive My Car’ Keeps Festival Rolling
Cannes 2021: Also – “After Yang” star Jodie Turner-Smith is robbed – including her mother’s wedding ring; “Memoria” with Tilda Swinton drops a trailer
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Cannes So Far: It’s All About the Testing – and the Sexy Nuns, of Course
Cannes 2021: Rumors run rampant, nobody likes spitting in tubes or wearing masks in the heat, and the movies have yet to stand out — but in a way, Cannes is still Cannes
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‘Evolution’ Film Review: ‘Pieces of a Woman’ Filmmakers Offer a Powerful Meditation on Trauma
Cannes 2021: Director Kornél Mundruczó and writer Kata Wéber explore the complicated identity of Jews in and around Germany after World War II
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‘Three Floors’ Film Review: Italian Drama Just Doesn’t Work on Any Level
Cannes 2021: Director Nanni Moretti is a Cannes regular, but this film set in a middle-class apartment building is one of the worst efforts in a great career
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‘Ali & Ava’ Film Review: Interracial Romance Is Rich in Details
Cannes 2021: British director Clio Barnard’s film is also an acting showcase for Adeel Akhtar and Claire Rushbrook
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Jason Solomons