Zone of Interest is getting very high praise
― Dan S, Friday, 19 May 2023 18:54 (eleven months ago) link
Zone of Interest: Jonathan Glazer’s new film is a profound and disturbing masterpiece which made me feel physically ill. @cinevue— John Bleasdale (@drjonty) May 19, 2023
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 19 May 2023 19:00 (eleven months ago) link
Glazer's path has been interesting af, I do wanna see this
― contrapuntal aversion (Noodle Vague), Friday, 19 May 2023 19:03 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.indiewire.com/criticism/movies/the-zone-of-interest-review-jonathan-glazer-1234865296/
― just sayin, Friday, 19 May 2023 21:46 (eleven months ago) link
According to @GuyLodge's metric that if Glazer's THE ZONE OF INTEREST is good, it means this is a good Cannes, it's a very, very, very good Cannes. Also a bone-chillingly creepy one.— Jessica Kiang (@jessicakiang) May 19, 2023
― Dan S, Friday, 19 May 2023 23:41 (eleven months ago) link
About Dry Grasses has gotten a pretty good reaction as well
― Dan S, Friday, 19 May 2023 23:52 (eleven months ago) link
Also, the more masterpieces there are, the more likely they’re gonna give it to Ken Loach again
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Saturday, 20 May 2023 00:15 (eleven months ago) link
:) I hope not
― Dan S, Saturday, 20 May 2023 00:33 (eleven months ago) link
I guess Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania’s Four Daughters is a work of docufiction, where actors portray real people in a historical moment. It sounds interesting
― Dan S, Saturday, 20 May 2023 00:36 (eleven months ago) link
Would love to hear Thierry Fremaux’s response to this:
The only way an #autistic person can have a half decent festival experience at #CannesFilmFestival is if you’re a VIP who can afford to take taxis everywhere and stay at one of the fancy hotels by the Croisette. The industry’s mindset will make you feel that if you’re not…— Irene Silvera (@irene_silvera) May 20, 2023
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Saturday, 20 May 2023 13:05 (eleven months ago) link
Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon has gotten great reviews, but at 3 1/2 hours I’m wondering if it is really compelling or if it is an eat-your-vegetables kind of movie. I’m giving it the benefit of the doubt and am looking forward to it. It has Lily Gladstone
The Wang Bing Youth (Spring), which is Jeunesse on the list above, is the same length. It sounds repetitive, claustrophobic and oppressive, with occasional reprieves, but also kind of amazing
― Dan S, Saturday, 20 May 2023 23:25 (eleven months ago) link
abut kids working in cramped conditions in small clothes factories in China, popping out 100-or-more baby garments per day - showing all of the sweat and toil, infighting, spats and make-ups and camaraderie in extremely dingy grungy spaces
― Dan S, Saturday, 20 May 2023 23:36 (eleven months ago) link
Wait, did you watch it?
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Sunday, 21 May 2023 00:37 (eleven months ago) link
no, just listened to the Film Comment podcast that described it in detail
I skipped over their discussion of Monster. Like with Close I want to experience it for myself. (I still haven't seen Close)
― Dan S, Sunday, 21 May 2023 00:52 (eleven months ago) link
in May December, “Moore co-stars as Gracie Atherton, a 60-year-old southern belle with a sun-bright smile and a brittle coating of frost. More than two decades ago she fell in love with Joe Yoo, a 13-year-old schoolboy, sparking a nationwide scandal that people remember to this day.”
That’s enough to get me interested
― Dan S, Sunday, 21 May 2023 01:04 (eleven months ago) link
The Tunisian film Four Daughters sounds interesting, with the two older daughters who became radicalized by Isis played by actors (along with the mother), but with the two younger daughters played by the actual in-real-life subjects of the story
― Dan S, Sunday, 21 May 2023 01:06 (eleven months ago) link
This grid appears to have all of the outliers RE: the new Glazer
Justine Triet’s ‘Anatomy Of A Fall’ joins ‘May December’ at top of Screen’s Cannes jury grid https://t.co/oSuugFKDRW pic.twitter.com/DTxLn3Wd1a— Screen International (@Screendaily) May 22, 2023
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Monday, 22 May 2023 13:27 (eleven months ago) link
Interesting. Here is the Intl Cinephile Society critics' grid:
Day 5 of #Cannes2023 is done. We're almost halfway folks! https://t.co/XYEFp6yt7o pic.twitter.com/765ZWXF88i— IntlCinephileSociety (@ICSfilm) May 21, 2023
― Dan S, Monday, 22 May 2023 15:06 (eleven months ago) link
That always feels like the more reliable one tbh
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Monday, 22 May 2023 15:31 (eleven months ago) link
In Ehrlich’s negative review of Club Zero he’s right that “no other narrative director is more skeptical of — or even hostile towards — the social institutions into which people entrust their faith”
Lourdes (2009) is about a young disabled woman with multiple sclerosis who is very skeptical about religion. She is living in a care facility and wants to go to Lourdes just for the change of scene and to be fussed over. She encounters many Catholic true believers who don’t understand her, but she in the end inexplicably is the one who is healed.
Amour Fou (2014) is an incredibly morose (but occasionally comedic) film that alternates between showing boring discussions of arcane tax law and a toxic relationship between two people obessessed with death. It is about the real life poet Heinrich Von Kleist who died by suicide after shooting his girlfriend Henriette Vogel in 1811.
Little Joe (2019), which won the Cannes best actress award for Emily Beecham, is another really memorable film, about a horticultural lab which is portrayed in a very stylized and futuristic way, where a plant is developed that releases a powerful antidepressant, with the plant eventually assuming control. Ben Wishaw also stars
Ehrlich says “It’s one thing for Hausner to question religion, which has been responsible for all manner of sins over the centuries, but antidepressants — and now educators — feel like cynical targets for a filmmaker desperate to undermine anything that might help people better prepare themselves for the difficulties of a godless world. I want to have faith that I’m misreading Hausner’s intentions, and possibly not for the first time, but I’m getting pretty exhausted by the lack of faith she seems to have in everyone else.”
I don’t think the conclusions to which the critics are reaching about her films are ones that she wants us to make. Her films are much stranger than that.
That said, this doesn’t sound like it will be winning anything
― Dan S, Monday, 22 May 2023 23:50 (eleven months ago) link
Jessica Hausner’s Club Zero lands like a little drop of poison in Cannes competition. Chill, satisfying parable of 21stC magical thinking with Mia Wasikowska perfectly cast as the tale’s fanatical pied piper. Liked this a lot #Cannes2023— Xan Brooks (@XanBrooks) May 22, 2023
― Dan S, Monday, 22 May 2023 23:52 (eleven months ago) link
wow
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 May 2023 23:53 (eleven months ago) link
I've admired every Hausner film I've seen.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 May 2023 23:54 (eleven months ago) link
‘Fallen Leaves’ snatches top spot on Screen’s #Cannes2023 jury grid; ‘Club Zero’ struggles https://t.co/S56QFy37BM pic.twitter.com/mVmbNRPoCA— Screen International (@Screendaily) May 23, 2023
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 15:11 (eleven months ago) link
Apart from a sniffy review from Variety all the reviews for ‘Asteroid City’ I’ve seen rave about.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 17:29 (eleven months ago) link
Neil Young’s odds keep changing. Here is his current top 10.
https://www.jigsawlounge.co.uk/film/reviews/cannes-2023/
9/2 Jonathan Glazer THE ZONE OF INTEREST (106m) Fri 19 9/2 Marco Bellocchio RAPITO aka KIDNAPPED (125m) Tue 23 7/1 Alice Rohrwacher LA CHIMERA (130m) Fri 26 8/1 Aki Kaurismäki FALLEN LEAVES (83m) Mon 22 8/1 Jessica Hausner CLUB ZERO (110m) Mon 22 8/1 Todd Haynes MAY DECEMBER (113m) Sat 20 9/1 Kaouther Ben Hania FOUR DAUGHTERS (107m) Fri 1912/1 Trần Anh Hùng THE POT-AU-FEU (145m) Wed 24 12/1 Nuri Bilge Ceylan ABOUT DRY GRASSES (197m) Fri 19 16/1 Wang Bing YOUTH (SPRING) (212m) Thu 18
I don’t think he has registered the negative reaction to Club Zero yet, and I’m curious about his sudden elevation of the Bellocchio
― Dan S, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 22:42 (eleven months ago) link
broker by kore-eda was trash
― flopson, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 23:06 (eleven months ago) link
No, c'mon, it wasn't trash, but it was his first meh film in years.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 23:15 (eleven months ago) link
He has a formal command on which he can rely whereas, say, Paul Schrader, whose most recent film I like a lot, can obviously make garbage when his ear for dialogue and his wham-bam visual sense fail him.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 23:17 (eleven months ago) link
Seems odd to not have Anatomy of a Fall at least in the top 10, much less top 3
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 23:20 (eleven months ago) link
it is now tied for number 10 on that list
― Dan S, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 23:28 (eleven months ago) link
"Bellocchio and the Vatican + true crime again?"
― gjoon1, Thursday, April 13, 2023
this post seems on the mark from what I've read about the film
― Dan S, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 23:40 (eleven months ago) link
xp IndieWire moved it to first place in its oddshttps://www.indiewire.com/awards/predictions/cannes-2023-palme-dor-contenders-winners-predictions-1234864878/
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Wednesday, 24 May 2023 12:36 (eleven months ago) link
Not everyone liked Asteroid City!
The new Wes Anderson is such a pain in the arse it should have been called Haemorrhoid City.— Jonathan Romney (@JonathanRomney) May 24, 2023
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 13:23 (eleven months ago) link
The panel on the the Film Comment podcast loved Joanna Arnow's The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (playing in Directors' Fortnight). I realise I'm not the target demographic but I've rarely been so sure that I don't want to follow a recommendation. Enjoying following along vicariously via daily podcasts and tweets, as usual. Though the podcasts are down to Film Comment and (my favourite) The Last Thing I Saw as Little White Lies doesn't seem to really be doing it this year.
― Alba, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 14:15 (eleven months ago) link
Neil Young now has Marco Bellocchio’s Kidnapped as the favorite to win the Palme d’Or, with some reshuffling of the other films, moving Anatomy of a Fall upwards
7/2 Marco Bellocchio KIDNAPPED aka RAPITO (125m) Tue 239/2 Jonathan Glazer THE ZONE OF INTEREST (106m) Fri 196/1 Alice Rohrwacher LA CHIMERA (130m) Fri 268/1 Aki Kaurismäki FALLEN LEAVES (83m) Mon 229/1 Jessica Hausner CLUB ZERO (110m) Mon 2210/1 Justine Triet ANATOMY OF A FALL (151m) Sun 2111/1 Kaouther Ben Hania FOUR DAUGHTERS (107m) Fri 1912/1 Todd Haynes MAY DECEMBER (113m) Sat 2012/1 Nuri Bilge Ceylan ABOUT DRY GRASSES (197m) Fri 1916/1 Wang Bing YOUTH (SPRING) (212m) Thu 18
― Dan S, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 23:56 (eleven months ago) link
film critic Donald Clarke asked him why he still had Club Zero on his list given the negative reviews and he said it was because of some inside information, that “rumours started running rife in Vienna film-circles as soon as it was announced in comp”. I'm very skeptical that that could affect the jury
― Dan S, Thursday, 25 May 2023 00:00 (eleven months ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 25 May 2023 00:01 (eleven months ago) link
We’re kind of overdue for an appalling d’Or anyway, no?
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Thursday, 25 May 2023 00:51 (eleven months ago) link
maybe that's right, but there's no way to know
I’m not sure what inside information this guy has, but the Palme d’Or, Grand Prix, Director, and 75th Anniversary Prize all went to films in his eventual top 5 last year
― Dan S, Thursday, 25 May 2023 00:57 (eleven months ago) link
In any case I'm looking forward to watching all of the 10 films on that list, they all sound pretty great.
I've only seen a promo for La Chimera and the poster which shows the Hanged Man from the tarot. I'm pretty sure I will love it
― Dan S, Thursday, 25 May 2023 02:07 (eleven months ago) link
there have been no reviews of it yet
― Dan S, Thursday, 25 May 2023 02:22 (eleven months ago) link
‘The Pot-Au-Feu’ posts solid score on Screen’s #Cannes2033 jury grid; ‘A Brighter Tomorrow’ falters https://t.co/fvyfyzGysj pic.twitter.com/edjcLUKnUt— Screen International (@Screendaily) May 25, 2023
Our grids are getting pretty full on day 9 of the festival. #Cannes2023 https://t.co/XYEFp6yt7o pic.twitter.com/bGehGivMcP— IntlCinephileSociety (@ICSfilm) May 24, 2023
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Thursday, 25 May 2023 16:13 (eleven months ago) link
Damn, I just realized this site is dead: https://cannes-ratings.herokuapp.com/
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Thursday, 25 May 2023 16:16 (eleven months ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 26 May 2023 00:01 (eleven months ago) link
LAST SUMMER [L'été dernier] (Catherine Breillat; France) 3
I think I voted for this one to win, and some of the early reviews suggest that wasn't necessarily a maniacal mistake
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Friday, 26 May 2023 11:16 (eleven months ago) link
It's a remake of the Danish film Queen of Hearts, and the original is pretty great.
― Frederik B, Friday, 26 May 2023 11:54 (eleven months ago) link
Wim Wenders’ ‘Perfect Days’ scores well on Screen’s #Cannes2023 jury grid; ‘Last Summer’ also lands https://t.co/CPkrcQZv2l pic.twitter.com/5l6Dga657S— Screen International (@Screendaily) May 26, 2023
Palme alert! Right before we hit the final day of Competition films, we have two new top scores on our #Cannes2023 grid. Check it out here: https://t.co/XYEFp6yt7o pic.twitter.com/83iGh1FgXj— IntlCinephileSociety (@ICSfilm) May 25, 2023
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Friday, 26 May 2023 16:50 (eleven months ago) link
Solid reception on the Rohrwacher, too:
The best film at Cannes 2023, Alice Rohrwacher’s tomb-raider drama LA CHIMERA is an earthy, dreamy fable about the gravesites we all walk over every day. It doesn’t belong in a museum, it’s a living one. Review for @LWLies:https://t.co/IX5WnjX8je— Mark Asch (@MarkAschParody) May 26, 2023
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Friday, 26 May 2023 17:08 (eleven months ago) link
Awards so far:
Un Certain Regard Prize: How to Have Sex by Molly Manning WalkerUn Certain Regard Jury Prize: Hounds by Kamal LazraqUn Certain Regard Best Director: The Mother of All Lies by Asmae El MoudirInternational Critics’ Week Grand Prize: Tiger Stripes by Amanda Nell EuDirectors’ Fortnight Best European Film: Creatura by Elena Martín GimenoPalm Dog Award: Messi as Snoop in Anatomy of a Fall, Grand Jury Prize: Alma in Fallen Leaves
in these sidebars, the film that sounds most impressive to me is Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell by Pham Thien An in Direcors’ Fortnight, which is eligible for the Camera d’Or
― Dan S, Saturday, 27 May 2023 00:48 (eleven months ago) link