French-Senegalese filmmaker Alain Gomis expands upon his ambiguous cinema of experience and identity with Félicité, the story of a Kinshasa singer in crisis
Little Moscow on the Croisette: Kantemir Balagov’s Closeness, Andrei Zvyagintsev’s Loveless, and Sergei Loznitsa’s A Gentle Creature stood out at the French fest
The exception rules: the free spirits (and auteurism) of Claire Denis’s Let the Sunshine In, Arnaud Desplechin’s Ismael’s Ghosts, and Mathieu Amalric’s Barbara
