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Daily | Cannes 2013 | Guillaume Canet’s BLOOD TIES
“Endeavors to evoke the great character-driven movies of the 1970s, but never quite lives up to its epic scope.”
Daily | Cannes 2013 | James Toback’s SEDUCED AND ABANDONED
Toback and Alec Baldwin talk art and money with the likes of Scorsese, Bertolucci, and Polanski. Updated through 5/20.
Daily | Cannes 2013 | Alex van Warmerdam’s BORGMAN
“Caustic, surreal, creepy, and blackly funny.” Updated through 5/20.
Daily | Cannes 2013 | Rebecca Zlotowski’s GRAND CENTRAL
As if Dardennes were asked “to make a cinematic cocktail using equal parts of ‘Summer With Monica’ and ‘Silkwood.’”
Daily | Alexey Balabanov, 1959 – 2013
The “first post-Soviet Russian director to gain international prominence” was 54. Updated through 5/20.
Daily | Cannes 2013 | Joel and Ethan Coen’s INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
“The Coens have again taken a real time and place and freely made it their own.” Updated through 5/20.
Daily | Cannes 2013 | THE DANCE OF REALITY and JODOROWSKY’S DUNE
Alejandro Jodorowsky’s first feature in 23 years is “an unexpectedly touching and personal work.” Updated through 5/19.
Daily | Cannes 2013 | Hirokazu Kore-eda’s LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON
For some, it “has the overall depth and tenor of a Lifetime movie.” Others are moved to tears. Updated through 5/19.
Daily | Cannes 2013 | Arnaud Desplechin’s JIMMY P.
The trades love it. Everyone else (so far), not so much. Updated through 5/19.
Daily | Cannes 2013 | Katell Quillévéré’s SUZANNE
“Almost feels like an extended trailer for an entire season of a French working-class daytime drama.”
Daily | Cannes 2013 | Alain Guiraudie’s STRANGER BY THE LAKE
A “mesmerizingly odd mix of queer-culture ethnography and Hitchcockian thriller.” Updated through 5/19.
Daily | Cannes 2013 | Clio Barnard’s THE SELFISH GIANT
“Where ‘The Arbor’ retained a certain televisual quality to its construction, ‘The Selfish Giant’ is boldly, broodingly cinematic.” Updated through 5/18.
