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Cannes Film Festival

14 May – 25 April 2019

The 51st edition of the Cannes Film Festival ran from May 14 to 25.

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  • Deerskin
    Review preview for Deerskin

    The director proves a master of the tragicomic as he observes one man's slip from midlife crisis to madness by way of obsession.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Georges, 44, and his jacket, 100 per cent deerskin, have a plan.
  • Nina Wu
    Review preview for Nina Wu

    Unflinching in its horrific subject matter and challenging in its construction.

    Matthew Anderson · 3 out of 5
    A struggling actress gets a role as the heroine of a Seventies espionage film, but after she is beset by a series of unfortunate events, can she fight against the odds?
  • Liberté
    Review preview for Liberté

    Serra turns to period pieces not out of nostalgia, but quite the contrary, to provoke and dismantle - a grotesque imagery looking to alter the often sublime portrayal of such figures.

    Georgiana Musat · 4 out of 5
    A group of 18th century libertines are expelled from court and wander in the forests, seeking asylum.
  • Papicha
    Review preview for Papicha

    Engages with an energetic and angry vitality as well as authenticity.

    Richard Mowe · 4 out of 5
    A student becomes determined to stage a fashion show despite religious opposition.
  • Family Romance LLC
    Review preview for Family Romance LLC

    The situations highlight a sense of existential loneliness in the modern world that might come with specifically Japanese trappings but which many elsewhere will recognise the emotional truth of.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Docudrama about a company which hires out people to pretend to be family members.
  • Tommaso
    Review preview for Tommaso

    Like many of Ferrara’s films, Tommaso starts out with seemingly insignificant details, but stacks them until they mount ominously.

    Sunil Chauhan · 3 out of 5
    An American film director in Rome tries to understand where life has taken him.
  • Joan Of Arc
    Review preview for Joan Of Arc

    The whole film adheres to the director’s credo that simple story-telling does not mean a lack of depth or subtlety, or roughness around the edges.

    Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
    A sequel to The Childhood Of Joan Of Arc.
  • The Whistlers
    Review preview for The Whistlers

    The whistling language is fun - and, if anything, disappointingly underused - but it's the language of cinema that Porumboiu is really interested in.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Film noir sees a corrupt cop learn a whistling language to beat detection while trying to double-cross the mob.
  • Abou Leila
    Review preview for Abou Leila

    This is a long way off the beaten track of traditional narrative, but it is nonetheless engaging and affecting.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    Two men take an increasingly surreal trip into the desert against the backdrop of Civil War.
  • Adam
    Review preview for Adam

    Touzani has no time for throwing a pity party for these women, she shows instead that they deserve our admiration rather than our sympathy.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A widow takes in a heavily pregnant young woman.

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