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Cannes Film Festival · 2022

Cannes Film Festival 2022

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5 films · 3 reviews

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All That Breathes

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Sen could easily just have made an observational documentary about the brothers' day-to-day work or simply focused on the kites themselves but he stretches its wings much further than that.

Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
Against the darkening backdrop of Delhi's apocalyptic air and escalating violence, two brothers devote their lives to protect one casualty of the turbulent times: the bird known as the black kite.

(Country: UK, India; Year: 2022; Director: Shaunak Sen; Stars: Mohammad Saud, Nadeem Shehzad)

Full review See: Shaunak Sen on his documentary All That Breathes

For The Sake Of Peace

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Looks at the ways the younger generation seek ways to live in peace rather than perpetual conflict.

Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
South Sudan is the youngest country in the world, at war with itself, with over 350,000 people killed since its inception in 2011. However, through this darkness, its endless cycle of conflict has hope: the determination of young women and men who refuse to give up on peace.

(Country: US, France; Year: 2022; Director: Christophe Castagne, Thomas Sametin; Stars: Gatjang Dagor, Nandege Magdalena Lokoro)

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Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble In Mind

Documentary about the musician.

(Year: 2022; Director: Ethan Coen)

Little Nicholas: Happy As Can Be (Le petit Nicolas: Qu'est-ce qu'on attend pour être heureux?)

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Everything flows with the flourish of an expensive ink pen on paper, as sketches are made to bloom with colour or a bicycle ride turns into a mini adventure, all given additional life by the zippy score from Ludovic Bource.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
The French schoolboy's adventures mix with the biography of his creators.

(Country: France, Luxembourg; Year: 2022; Director: Amandine Fredon, Benjamin Massoubre; Writer: Michel Fessler, Anne Goscinny, Benjamin Massoubre, based on characters by René Goscinny, Jean-Jacques Sempé; Stars: Laurent Lafitte, Alain Chabat, Simon Faliu)

Full review See: Interview with Benjamin Massoubre about Little Nicholas: Happy As Can Be

The Natural History Of Destruction

A film is inspired by WG Sebald’s text Luftkrieg und Literatur about the Allied bombing of German cities in the Second World War.

(Year: 2022; Director: Sergei Loznitsa)