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Cannes Film Festival · 2022

Cannes Film Festival 2022

Un Certain Regard

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18 films · 11 reviews

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Burning Days

Emre, a young and dedicated prosecutor, is newly appointed to a small town hit by a water crisis and political scandals. After an initially warm welcome, he experiences an increasing number of tense interactions and is reluctantly dragged into local politics. When Emre forms a bond with the owner of the local newspaper, pressure escalates

(Country: Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Turkey; Year: 2022; Director: Emin Alper; Writer: Emin Alper; Stars: Selahattin Paşalı, Ekin Koç, Selin Yeninci, Erol Babaoğlu, Erdem Şenocak, Sinan Demirer, Nizam Namidar, Ali Seçkiner Alıcı, Eylül Ersöz, Onur Gürçay, Mehmet Kervancı, Hatice Aslan, İsmail Bahadır Peker, Enver Hüsrevoğlu, Emin Alper)

Butterfly Vision (Bachennya metelyka)

Review preview for Butterfly Vision

Lilya’s treatment while captive is only glimpsed in brief flashbacks, which avoid voyeurism and suddenly occur like glitches in the film, the image pixellating as though it is buffering, to reveal a scrap of memory.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
Drama about a former prisoner of war, who struggles to resume her life in Ukraine.

(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2022; Director: Maksym Nakonechnyi; Writer: Maksym Nakonechnyi; Stars: Rita Burkovska, Daria Lorenci, Lyubomyr Valivots, Natalya Vorozhbit) , Trailer

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Corsage

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Vicky Krieps...is in excellent form and up to the task of presenting to us the icon in all her idiosyncrasies.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
A period drama about Empress Elisabeth of Austria, known as Sisi.

(Country: Austria, France, Germany, Luxembourg; Year: 2022; Director: Marie Kreutzer; Writer: Marie Kreutzer; Stars: Vicky Krieps, Florian Teichtmeister, Katharina Lorenz, Finnegan Oldfield, Jeanne Werner, Alma Hasun, Manuel Rubey, Colin Morgan, Rosa Hajjaj, Lilly Marie Tschörtner , Aaron Friesz, Ivana Urban, Raphael von Bargen, Alexander Pschill, Regina Fritsch, Raphael Nicholas)

Full review See: Marie Kreutzer in conversation on Empress Elisabeth of Austria with King Ludwig II of Bavaria, Luchino Visconti, Finnegan Oldfield’s Louis Le Prince and the biographies of Sisi , Marie Kreutzer in conversation on Corsage, Vicky Krieps as Sisi, singer/songwriter Camille, and the look of the film , Vicky Krieps in conversation on Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage, Romy Schneider, and Margarethe von Trotta’s Bachmann & Frisch

Domingo And The Mist

The town of 65-year-old Domingo lives in is being threatened by thugs hired by a developer to expel its inhabitants. But his land hides a secret—the ghost of his deceased wife who visits him within the mist. Domingo is sure he will never give up his land, even if that means resorting to violence.

(Country: Costa Rica, Qatar; Year: 2022; Director: Ariel Escalante; Writer: Ariel Escalante; Stars: Carlos Ureña, Sylvia Sossa, Aris Vindas, Esteban Brenes Serrano)

Father And Solider

Review preview for Father And Solider

In throwing a spotlight on these neglected and unsung heroes Vadepied does an invaluable service to their memories that no amount of medals and ceremonies could achieve.

Richard Mowe · 4 out of 5
A father enlists in the French army in 1917 to join his 17-year-old son.

(Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Mathieu Vadepied; Writer: Olivier Demangel, Mathieu Vadepied; Stars: Omar Sy, Alassane Doing)

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Godland

Review preview for Godland

To refer to something as ‘pure cinema’ is uninspired, but Godland is one of those rare films that has some untranslatable quality that speaks for itself.

Dora Leu · 4 out of 5
In the late 19th century, a young Danish priest travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, his mission and morality.

(Country: Denmark, Iceland, France, Sweden; Year: 2022; Director: Hlynur Pálmason; Writer: Hlynur Pálmason; Stars: Hilmar Guðjónsson, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Elliott Crosset Hove, Jacob Lohmann, Waage Sandø, Vic Carmen Sonne)

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Harka

Review preview for Harka

A cri de cœur on behalf of all those from who hope has been stolen

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
Ali earns a living illegally selling gasoline on the street. He doesn’t have any contact with his family, but when he receives news that his father has died, he is forced to become responsible for his two younger sisters.

(Country: France, Germany, United States, Tunisia; Year: 2022; Director: Lotfy Nathan; Writer: Lotfy Nathan; Stars: Adam Bessa, Hsouna Heni, Jamal Madani, Mohamed Ouni, Elyes Riahi, Mohamed Nsibi, Khaled Barsaoui, Moez Hannachi, Yahya Feidi, Arij Sebai, Monji Ben Said, Boulbeba Hedili, Anoir Nasr, Islem Ben Mlouka, Amine Zaafouri, Sajir Mkacher)

Full review See: Adam Bessa on embracing complexity and digging into character , Lotfy Nathan on 'shedding the skin of accuracy' for stronger storytelling in Harka

Joyland

Review preview for Joyland

It is not so much individual people who cause the problems but rather the constricting cultural circumstances that dictate everyone must play their allocated role.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
As the Ranas, a happily patriarchal joint family, yearn for the birth of a baby boy to continue the family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theater and falls for an ambitious trans starlet. Their impossible love story illuminates the entire family's desire for a sexual rebellion.

(Country: Pakistan; Year: 2022; Director: Saim Sadiq; Writer: Saim Sadiq; Stars: Sana Jafri, Ali Junejo)

Full review See: Sounding it out - Nathan Ruyle on the new revolution in sound design , Oliver Ridge on Joyland and the Corner Office

Mediterranean Fever

Review preview for Mediterranean Fever

It might be that my empathy was miscalibrated that day, but I came out of Mediterranean Fever feeling worse than when I went in.

Andrew Robertson · 3 out of 5
Drama charts the unlikely bond between two very different Arab family men living in the Israeli port city of Haifa.

(Country: Germany, France, Cyprus; Year: 2022; Director: Maha Haj; Writer: Maha Haj; Stars: Amer Hlehel, Ashraf Farah, Anat Hadid, Samir Elias, Cynthia Saleem, Shaden Kanboura, Salam Husari)

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Metronom

Review preview for Metronom

Belcu doesn’t need to show us much violence in order to indicate how the mere threat of it can become an effective tool of oppression.

Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
A teenager finds herself grappling with love and the authorities during the rule of Ceaucescu.

(Country: Romania; Year: 2022; Director: Alexandru Belc; Writer: Alexandru Belc, Patrick Templin; Stars: Mara Bugarin, Serban Lazarovici, Vlad Ivanov, Mihai Calin, Andreea Bibiri)

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Plan 75

Review preview for Plan 75

The film is full of sharp little observations, made in passing, which tell us about this society and the experience of people living it.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
In a near future Japan, over-75s are offered a payment to encourage them to accept an assisted death.

(Country: Japan, France, Philippines; Year: 2022; Director: Chie Hayakawa; Writer: Chie Hayakawa; Stars: Chieko Baishô, Hayato Isomura, Taka Takao, Yumi Kawai)

Full review See: Interview with Chie Hayakawa about Plan 75

Return To Seoul

A Frenchwoman adopted as a child returns to Korea to try to track down her birth parents.

(Country: Korea; Year: 2022; Director: Davy Chou)

Rodeo

Drama about a young woman in an underground dirt bike community.

(Year: 2022; Director: Lola Quivoron)

Sick Of Myself (Syk Pike)

Review preview for Sick Of Myself

The film is less about ambition or striving for success, as it’s about the fetishisation of that image of success, and how striving for the perfect image can destroy you.

Nikola Jovic · 4 out of 5
Signe and Thomas are in an unhealthy, competitive relationship that takes a vicious turn when Thomas suddenly breaks through as a contemporary artist.

(Country: Norway, Sweden; Year: 2022; Director: Kristoffer Borgli; Writer: Kristoffer Borgli; Stars: Anders Danielsen Lie, Eirik Sæther, Kristine Kujath Thorp)

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The Silent Twins

Drama based on the true story of twins from the only Black family in a small town in Wales in the 1970s who are sent to Broadmoor after a crime spree.

(Country: Poland, US, UK; Year: 2022; Director: Agnieszka Smoczynska; Writer: Andrea Seigel, Marjorie Wallace; Stars: Letitia Wright, Jodhi May, Jack Bandeira, Treva Etienne, Tamara Lawrance, Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn, Declan Joyce, Ewa Rodart, Franciszek Przanowski, Jordan J Gallagher, Tony Richardson, Rita Raider, John Hyatt, Martin Hugh Henley, Julian R. Booth)

The Stranger

Crime thriller in which two strangers meet and strike up a friendship. But what one doesn't know is that the other is a seasoned undercover officer working to convict him.

(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Thomas M Wright; Stars: Joel Edgerton, Sean Harris)

Untitled Pine Ridge Project

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(Year: 2022; Director: Riley Keough)

The Worst Ones (Les Pires)

Review preview for The Worst Ones

Better in its subtler moments, when it explores not just the difference between what is being filmed and reality by the fictions the characters are also inventing for themselves, the film is made compelling by its own immaculate casting.

Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
Film within a film about a group of youngsters who are street cast and how it changes their lives.

(Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret; Writer: Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret, Elénore Gurrey; Stars: Johan Heldenbergh, Matthias Jacquin, Loïc Pech, Mallory Wanecques)

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