Cannes Film Festival · 2014
18 films · 15 reviews
Egoyan has made an edgy and contemporary psychological thriller.
(Country: Canada; Year: 2014; Director: Atom Egoyan; Writer: Atom Egoyan, David Fraser; Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Scott Speedman, Rosario Dawson, Mireille Enos, Kevin Durand, Alexia Fast)
There is much irony on the theme of generational gulfs, internet obsessions and the nature of creativity and culture. Unfortunately none of it rings true.
(Country: France, Switzerland, Germany; Year: 2014; Director: Olivier Assayas; Writer: Olivier Assayas; Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Kristen Stewart, Juliette Binoche, Brady Corbet, Claire Tran, Johnny Flynn) , Trailer
Bennett Miller has secured his place at the forefront of directors who excel at character studies.
(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Bennett Miller; Writer: E Max Frye, Dan Futterman; Stars: Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, Steve Carell, Anthony Michael Hall)
(Country: Switzerland; Year: 2013; Director: Jean-Luc Godard; Writer: Jean-Luc Godard; Stars: Kamel Abdeli, Dimitri Basil, Zoé Bruneau, Richard Chevallier)
Jones spares none of the gory details in his depiction of the way the West really was.
(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Tommy Lee Jones; Writer: Kieran Fitzgerald, Tommy Lee Jones; Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank, Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto, Sonja Richter, Jo Harvey Allen, Barry Corbin, David Dencik, William Fichtner, Evan Jones, Caroline Lagerfelt, John Lithgow, Tim Blake Nelson, Jesse Plemons, James Spader, Meryl Streep) , Official site , Trailer
Loach gives voice with eloquence to the disenfranchised and celebrates the spirit of working people.
(Country: UK, Ireland, France; Year: 2014; Director: Ken Loach; Writer: Paul Laverty; Stars: Barry Ward, Simone Kirby, Andrew Scott, Jim Norton, Brían F O'Byrne)
Moore gives a frank and funny portrayal of female status at a certain age in the Dream Factory.
(Country: Canada, USA, France, Germany; Year: 2014; Director: David Cronenberg; Writer: Bruce Wagner; Stars: Julianne Moore, Robert Pattinson, Mia Wasikowska, Carrie Fisher, John Cusack, Sarah Gadon, livia Williams) , Trailer
(Year: 2014; Director: Alice Rohrwacher; Writer: Alice Rohrwacher; Stars: Sam Louwyck, Sabine Timoteo, Monica Bellucci, Alba Rohrwacher)
The energy and sheer visual bravura carry it along.
(Country: France, Canada; Year: 2014; Director: Xavier Dolan; Writer: Xavier Dolan; Stars: Anne Dorval, Antoine-Olivier Pilon, Suzanne Clément)
What is truly amazing about the film is the way cinematographer Dick Pope evokes Turner’s colour palette.
(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Mike Leigh; Writer: Mike Leigh; Stars: Tom Wlaschiha, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville)
Hazanavicius creates scenes of conflict that have echoes of everything from Apocalypse Now to Full Metal Jacket.
(Country: France; Year: 2014; Director: Michel Hazanavicius; Writer: Michel Hazanavicius; Stars: Annette Bening, Bérénice Bejo, Nino Kobakhidze, Nika Kipshidze)
In Gaspard Ulliel, Bonello has found an actor who not only looks the part but eases under Saint Laurent's skin with sensitivity.
(Country: France; Year: 2014; Director: Bertrand Bonello; Writer: Thomas Bidegain, Bertrand Bonello; Stars: Gaspard Ulliel, Jérémie Renier, Helmut Berger, Louis Garrel, Léa Seydoux)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2014; Director: Naomi Kawase; Writer: Naomi Kawase; Stars: Makiko Watanabe, Hideo Sakaki, Jun Murakami, Miyuki Matsuda, Tetta Sugimoto)
The way Sissako exposes the double standard makes the Jihadists' behavior no less threatening, on the contrary.
(Country: France, Mauritania; Year: 2014; Director: Abderrahmane Sissako; Writer: Abderrahmane Sissako, Kessen Tall; Stars: Pino Desperado, Abel Jafri, Toulou Kiki, Kettly Noël, Hichem Yacoubi)
Marion Cotillard tenderly lets us in on every nuance of dread, every vital decision.
(Country: Belgium; Year: 2014; Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne; Writer: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne; Stars: Marion Cotillard, Olivier Gourmet, Catherine Salée, Fabrizio Rongione, Christelle Cornil)
Ferociously funny.
(Country: Argentina, Spain; Year: 2014; Director: Damián Szifron; Writer: Damián Szifron; Stars: Rita Cortese, Ricardo Darín, Nancy Dupláa, Darío Grandinetti, Oscar Martínez, Osmar Núñez, María Onetto, Erica Rivas, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Julieta Zylberberg)
Ceylan explores such themes as moral responsibility, class and altruism with rigour.
(Country: Turkey, France, Germany; Year: 2014; Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan; Writer: Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan; Stars: Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sözen, Demet Akbag)
Wisdom is quiet and the future a mystery
(Country: Italy, Switzerland, Germany; Year: 2014; Director: Alice Rohrwacher; Writer: Alice Rohrwacher; Stars: Maria Alexandra Lungu, Sam Louwyck, Alba Rohrwacher, Sabine Timoteo, Agnese Graziani, Monica Bellucci, )
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