Cannes Film Festival · 2025
9 films · 5 reviews
This film is - sorry, but it has to be said - the dog's bollocks.
(Country: Mexico; Year: 1999; Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu; Writer: Guillermo Arriaga Jordan; Stars: Emilio Echevarria, Gael Garcia Bernal, Goya Toledo, Alvaro Guerrero, Vanessa Bauche, Jorge Salinas, Rodrigo Murray Prisant)
Kubrick badly misses the mark with this film, not in quality, but by a whole decade. It simply does not fit into the 1970s.
(Country: UK, US, Ireland; Year: 1975; Director: Stanley Kubrick; Writer: Stanley Kubrick, William Makepeace Thackeray; Stars: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger, Steven Berkoff, Gay Hamilton, Marie Kean, Diana Körner, Murray Melvin, Frank Middlemass, André Morell, Arthur O'Sullivan, Godfrey Quigley, Leonard Rossiter, Philip Stone)
(Country: India; Year: 1970; Director: Satyajit Ray; Writer: Sunil Gangopadhyay, Satyajit Ray; Stars: Sharmila Tagore, Kaberi Bose, Simi Garewal, Soumitra Chatterjee, Subhendu Chatterjee, Robi Ghosh, Samit Bhanja, Aparna Sen, Pahadi Sanyal)
Why should a story about two angels who have been hanging around Wisconsin for aeons, bored rigid, and wanting to go home, be understandable?
(Country: US; Year: 1999; Director: Kevin Smith; Writer: Kevin Smith; Stars: Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Linda Fiorentino, Salma Hayek, Chris Rock, Jason Lee, Alan Rickman)
(Year: 1925; Director: Charles Chaplin; Writer: Charles Chaplin; Stars: Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Henry Bergman, Malcolm Waite, Georgia Hale, Jack Adams, Frank Aderias, Leona Aderias, Lillian Adrian, Sam Allen, Claude Anderson, Harry Arras, Albert Austin, Marta Belfort)
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Mariska Hargitay; Stars: Mariska Hargitay, Jayne Mansfield, Zoltan Hargitay, Mickey Hargitay Jr., Ellen Hargitay, Rusty Strait)
(Country: US; Year: 1975; Director: Milos Forman; Writer: Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman, Ken Kesey, Dale Wasserman; Stars: Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco, Dean R. Brooks, Alonzo Brown, Scatman Crothers, Mwako Cumbuka, Danny DeVito, William Duell, Josip Elic, Lan Fendors, Louise Fletcher, Nathan George, Ken Kenny, Mel Lambert, Sydney Lassick)
Szabo's saga is a reminder of how great European cinema used to be.
(Country: Hungary, Germany, Canada, Austria; Year: 1999; Director: István Szabó; Writer: István Szabó, Israel Horovitz; Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Rosemary Harris, Rachel Weisz, Jennifer Ehle, Deborah Kara Unger, Molly Parker, James Frain, David de Keyser, John Neville, Miriam Margolyes, Rüdiger Vogler)
What appears banal in its depiction of a dysfunctional family is a joy to the watch.
(Country: Taiwan; Year: 2000; Director: Edward Yang; Writer: Edward Yang; Stars: Wu Nianzhen, Issey Ogata, Elaine Jin, Kelly Lee, Jonathan Chang, Adrian Lin, Chang Yu-Pang)
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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