Cannes Film Festival · 2014
19 films · 14 reviews
An authentic, no-holds barred roller coaster ride, which gives fresh hope for a new wave of British cinema.
(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Daniel Wolfe; Writer: Daniel Wolfe, Matthew Wolfe; Stars: Sameena Jabeen Ahmed, Connor McCarron)
Be prepared for scenes you finish in your own head to haunt you.
(Country: US, France; Year: 2014; Director: Jim Mickle; Writer: Nick Damici, Jim Mickle, based on the novel by Joe R Lansdale; Stars: Michael C Hall, Don Johnson, Sam Shepard, Vinessa Shaw, Nick Damici, Wyatt Russell)
(Country: France; Year: 2014; Director: Jean-Charles Hue; Writer: Jean-Charles Hue; Stars: Jason François, Michael Daube, Frédéric Dorkel, Moïse Dorkel, Philippe Marti)
(Country: Israel, France, Germany; Year: 2014; Director: Viviane Amsalem Ronit, Shlomi El Kabetz; Writer: Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz; Stars: Simon Abkarian, Rami Danon, Ronit Elkabetz, Sasson Gabai, Eli Gornstein)
Transformation is coming, although as with Sciamma's previous films this is not a simple, one-way manoeuvre, completed in double-quick time
(Country: France; Year: 2014; Director: Céline Sciamma; Writer: Céline Sciamma; Stars: Diabate Idrissa, Rabah Nait Oufella, Tatiana Rojo, Karidja Touré)
(Country: Belium, France; Year: 2014; Director: Fabrice Du Welz; Writer: Fabrice Du Welz, Vincent Tavier; Stars: Lola Dueñas, Héléna Noguerra, Laurent Lucas, Stéphane Bissot, David Murgia)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2014; Director: Seong-hoon Kim; Writer: Seong-hoon Kim; Stars: Seon-gyun Lee, Jin-woong Jo, Man-shik Jeong)
Dumont - for all the outlandishness of the film in other aspects - prioritises a messy realism over straightforward likeability in relation to his protagonists.
(Country: France; Year: 2014; Director: Bruno Dumont; Writer: Bruno Dumont; Stars: Alane Delhaye, Lucy Caron, Bernard Pruvost, Philippe Jore, Philippe Peuvion, Lisa Hartmann, Jason Cirot, Julien Bodard, Corentin Carpentier, Pascal Fresch, Baptiste Anquez, Stéphane Boutillier, Frédéric Castagno, Andrée Peuvion, Lucien Chaussoy, Cindy Louguet, Céline Sauvage, Bruno Darras, Sébastien Liss, Yacine Kellal, Didier Hennuyer, Cédric Lemaire, Stéphane Gallais, Raphaël Mourgues)
Special screening.
Cinematographer David Cailley, the director's brother, offers stark beauty and wicked humor.
(Country: France; Year: 2014; Director: Thomas Cailley; Writer: Thomas Cailley, Claude Le Pape; Stars: Adèle Haenel, Kévin Azaïs, Léa Pelletant, Pascal Bernagaud, Antoine Laurent)
What comes through is a sense of the vast number of tasks the museum must carry out to cover its remit as a public service.
(Country: France, USA, UK; Year: 2014; Director: Frederick Wiseman)
Ben-Shlush is riveting in the central role.
(Country: Israel; Year: 2014; Director: Asaf Korman; Writer: Liron Ben-Shlush; Stars: Liron Ben-Shlush, Jacob Daniel, Dana Ivgy)
A feelgood parable of human nature's ability to extract the positive from a negative.
(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Matthew Warchus; Writer: Stephen Beresford; Stars: Bill Nighy, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton, Ben Schnetzer, George Mackay, Andrew Scott, Paddy Considine, Faye Marsay, Joseph Gilgun)
Anchoring the audience with a perennial fence-sitter allows more room for the inevitable impact of the characters' stories, without the weight of an absolute ideological argument.
(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: John Boorman; Writer: John Boorman; Stars: Tamsin Egerton, David Thewlis, Caleb Landry Jones, Richard E Grant, Vanessa Kirby, Sinead Cusack)
A suspenseful and jittery depiction of how fear can nestle in the place where you should feel safest.
(Country: Argentina, France, Germany; Year: 2014; Director: Diego Lerman; Writer: Diego Lerman, María Meira; Stars: Julieta Díaz, Sebastián Molinaro, Marta Lubos, Valentina García Guerrero, Silvia Bayle, Sofía Palomino, Sandra Villani, Paula Ituriza, Carlos Weber)
The relatable, compassionately told story should easily appeal to both adults and younger folk.
(Country: Japan; Year: 2013; Director: Isao Takahata; Writer: Isao Takahata; Stars: Aki Asakura, Yukiji Asaoka, Takeo Chii)
A compelling, interesting and well-acted redemption tale.
(Country: Australia; Year: 2013; Director: Zak Hilditch; Writer: Zak Hilditch; Stars: Nathan Phillips, Angourie Rice, Sarah Snook, Jessica De Gouw, Daniel Henshall)
Hooper infects characters and viewers alike with the thrill of a madness from which there can be no real escape.
(Country: US; Year: 1974; Director: Tobe Hooper; Writer: Tobe Hooper, Kim Henkel; Stars: Marilyn Burns, Gunnar Hansen, Paul A Partain, Allen Danziger, Edwin Neal, William Vail, Terri McMinn, Jim Siedow)
Special screening.
(Country: Canada; Year: 2014; Director: Stéphane Lafleur; Writer: Valérie Beaugrand-Champagne, Stéphane Lafleur; Stars: Marc-André Grondin, Julianne Côté, Fanny Mallette)
The film takes on a masterful intesity as mental health as well as music begins to be at stake.
(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Damien Chazelle; Writer: Damien Chazelle; Stars: Miles Teller, Melissa Benoist, JK Simmons, Austin Stowell, Kavita Patil, Michael D Cohen, Tian Wang, Kofi Siriboe, Tarik Lowe, Marcus Henderson, CJ Vana, Calvin C Winbush, Rogelio Douglas Jr., Adrian Burks, Charlie Ian)
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