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Cannes Film Festival · 2023

Cannes Film Festival 2023

Cannes Classics

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12 films · 3 reviews

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Classe Tous Risques (The Big Risk)

Review preview for Classe Tous Risques

Ranging and enjoyably unpredictable.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
A gangster goes on the run with his family.

(Country: France, Italy; Year: 1960; Director: Claude Sautet; Writer: José Giovanni, Claude Sautet, Pascal Jardin, adapted from the novel by José Giovanni; Stars: Lino Ventura, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marcel Dalio, Michel Ardan, Sandra Milo, Simone France, Michèle Méritz, Stan Krol, Evelyne Ker, Betty Schneider, France Asselin, Jean-Pierre Zola, Sylvain Levignac, Jeanne Pérez, René Génin)

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The Family

Documentary about the Berri-Rassam dynasty.

(Year: 2023; Director: Michel Denisot, Florent Maillet)

Godard By Godard (Godard par Godard)

Archival self-portrait of the director.

(Year: 2023; Director: Florence Platarets; Writer: Frédéric Bonnaud)

Hello, It's Me (Barev, es em)

Romantic drama based on the real-life story of Soviet physicist Artem Alikhanian.

(Country: Armenia; Year: 1965; Director: Frounze Dovlatian)

Liv Ullmann - A Road Less Travelled

Exploration of the filmmaker's life and work.

(Year: 2023; Director: Dheeraj Akolkar)

Le Mépris (Contempt)

Review preview for Le Mépris

This film is one of the most rounded of any of Godard’s work and can easily be viewed as ‘mainstream’ – the more philosophical riddles being purely optional.

Chris · 4.5 out of 5
An American producer and Austrian director clash over the making of a film.

(Country: France, Italy; Year: 1963; Director: Jean-Luc Godard; Writer: Jean-Luc Godard, Alberto Moravia; Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Giorgia Moll, Fritz Lang, Raoul Coutard, Jean-Luc Godard, Linda Veras)

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The Munekata Sisters (Munekata kyôdai)

A woman tries to rekindle the relationship between her unhappily married sister and an old flame.

(Country: Japan; Year: 2023; Director: Yasujirô Ozu; Writer: Kôgo Noda, Yasujirô Ozu, Jirô Osaragi; Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Hideko Takamine, Ken Uehara, Sanae Takasugi)

Record Of A Tenement Gentleman (Nagaya shinshiroku)

A lost boy is taken in after following someone home.

(Country: Japan; Year: 1947; Director: Yasujirō Ozu)

Le Rendez-vous Des Quais

A couple's relationship is impacted by the man's union work.

(Country: France; Year: 1955; Director: Paul Carpita)

Return To Reason

In 2023, Jim Jarmush and Carter Logan, the founding members of the group Sqürl, compose a soundtrack to four short films by Man Ray as if they were forming one unique piece.

(Director: Man Ray)

Room 999 (Chambre 999)

In 1982, Wim Wenders asked 16 of his fellow directors to speak on the future of cinema, resulting in the film Room 666. Now, 40 years later, in Cannes, director Lubna Playoust asks Wim Wenders himself and a new generation of filmmakers the same question.

(Year: 2023; Director: Lubna Playoust)

Spellbound

Review preview for Spellbound

All in all Spellbound makes for a good watch but shouldn’t be too highly hyped.

Yusuf Javed · 4 out of 5
A psychologist finds herself drawn to an enigmatic amnesiac.

(Country: US; Year: 1945; Director: Alfred Hitchcock; Writer: John Palmer, Hilary St. George Sanders, Angus MacPhail, Ben Hecht, May E. Romm; Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll, Rhonda Fleming, John Emery, Norman Lloyd, Bill Goodwin, Steven Geray, Donald Curtis, Wallace Ford, Art Baker, Regis Toomey, Paul Harvey, Jean Acker)

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