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Cannes Film Festival · 2023

Cannes Film Festival 2023

Un Certain Regard

Programme

16 films · 7 reviews

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All To Play For (Rien À Perdre)

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All To Play For questions much and wagers on love and sunshine.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
A mum battles to get her child back after an injury while she was out sees him taken into care.

(Country: France; Year: 2023; Director: Delphine Deloget; Writer: Delphine Deloget; Stars: Virginie Efira, Felix Lefebvre, Alexis Tonetti, Arieh Worthalter, Mathieu Demy, India Hair)

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First Film

The Animal Kingdom (Le Règne Animal)

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The aerial shots of the forest and the believable transformations with feathers, wings, beaks and claws as well as fish scales, make for riveting viewing.

Richard Mowe · 4 out of 5
Sci-fi adventure set in a world where humans are mutating into "creatures".

(Country: France; Year: 2023; Director: Thomas Cailley; Writer: Thomas Cailley; Stars: Adèle Exarchopoulos, Romain Duris, Paul Kircher)

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Opening Film

The Breaking Ice

The relationship between a trio of young people over a period of a few days in the snow.

(Country: China; Year: 2023; Director: Anthony Chen; Writer: Anthony Chen; Stars: Zhou Dongyu, Liu Haoran, Qu Chuxiao)

The Buriti Flower (Crowrã)

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(Year: 2023; Director: João Salaviza, Renée Nader Messora; Writer: João Salaviza, Renée Nader Messora)

The Delinquents (Los Delincuentes)

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Moreno isn’t shy about his use of symbolism...What this effects to disguise, however, is the degree to which [the men's] own thinking has been shaped by symbols and by the belief system which surrounds them.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
Two bank staff rob their own establishment.

(Country: Argentina, Brazil, Luxembourg, Chile; Year: 2023; Director: Rodrigo Moreno; Writer: Rodrigo Moreno; Stars: Margarita Molfino, Esteban Bigliardi, Cecilia Rainero)

Full review See: Interview with Rodrigo Moreno about The Delinquents

Goodbye Julia

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Kordofani uses the greater intimacy offered by the camera to bring us close to the characters and reveal the complex layers of relationship developing between them.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
Wracked by guilt after covering up a murder, Mona — a northern Sudanese retired singer in a tense marriage — tries to make amends by taking in the deceased’s southern Sudanese widow, Julia, and her son, Daniel, into her home.

(Country: Sudan, Egypt, Germany, France, KSA, Sweden; Year: 2023; Director: Mohamed Kordofani; Writer: Mohamed Kordofani; Stars: Eiman Yousif, Siran Riak, Nazar Goma, Ger Duany, Issraa Elkogali Häggström)

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First Film

Hopeless

A teenage boy struggles to escape his difficult life in a violent hometown.

(Country: South Korea; Year: 2023; Director: Kim Chang-Hoon)

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How To Have Sex

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A fresh spin on territory that has been frequently explored.

Richard Mowe · 4 out of 5
Three friends contend with peer pressure in their decision to “do it”.

(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Molly Manning Walker; Writer: Molly Manning Walker; Stars: Mia McKenna Bruce, Lara Peake, Shaun Thomas, Sam Bottomley, Enva Lewis, Laura Ambler)

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First Film

If Only I Could Hibernate

A poor but proud Mongolian teen aspires to win an Academic Olympiad; first, he and his siblings must survive the bitter winter in Ulaanbaatar’s Ger district.

(Country: Mongolia; Year: 2023; Director: Zoljargal Purevdash)

First Film

Les Meutes

Trouble brews for a father and son in the wake of a kidnapping gone bad.

(Country: Morocco; Year: 2023; Director: Les Meutes)

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The Mother Of All Lies

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Everything about El Moudir’s film is unusual, from the structure to the mood.

Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
The filmmaker doesn’t have any pictures of herself as a child. This is the starting point of a documentary investigation that unfolds the secrets of a Casablanca family.

(Country: Morocco, France, Qatar; Year: 2023; Director: Asmae El Moudir)

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The Nature Of Love (Simple Comme Sylvain)

Sophia, a 40-year-old philosophy professor. Sylvain is a craftsman, renovating Sophia and her partner Xavier's new country house. When Sophia and Sylvain meet, Sophia’s world is turned upside down.

(Country: Canada, France; Year: 2023; Director: Monia Chokri; Writer: Monia Chokri; Stars: Magalie Lépine-Blondeau , Pierre-Yves Cardinal, François Létourneau , Monia Chokri)

The New Boy

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Handsomely mounted in terms of both the wide open landscapes and the confines of the church, Thornton allows the mystery surrounding the boy’s powers to remain that way, unknowable perhaps even to the youngster.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
The story of a nine-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy who arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery, run by a renegade nun, where his presence disturbs the delicately balanced world.

(Country: Australia; Year: 2023; Director: Warwick Thornton; Writer: Warwick Thornton; Stars: Cate Blanchett, Mezi Atwood, Deborah Mailman)

Full review See: Warwick Thornton on working with children, animals and just one camera on the New Boy , Warwick Thornton on the evolution of The New Boy

Rosalie

19th century tale of a bearded woman.

(Country: France; Year: 2023; Director: Stéphanie Di Giusto; Stars: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Benoît Magimel)

The Settlers (Los Colonos)

19th century drama. A man on an expedition is forced to take part in a massacre. Afterwards he forms a bond with the only survivor.

(Country: Chile, Argentina; Year: 2023; Director: Felipe Gálvez; Writer: Felipe Gálvez)

First Film

Terrestrial Verses

Nine individuals facing various accusations by Iranian authorities – from school to police – reveal their revolutionary spirit.

(Country: Iran; Year: 2023; Director: Ali Asgari; Writer: Ali Asgari, Alireza Khatami)