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Festivals

Cannes Dispatch: Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

By Eugene Hernandez
May 22, 2019
Eternal return: the director and stars of the Cannes sensation share some thoughts on what some have dubbed “Tarantino’s Roma”

Cannes Interview: Mati Diop

By Eric Hynes
May 22, 2019
Crossing over: the director of Atlantique on her debut feature at Cannes, a mysterious fable about migrants, magic, and transformation

Cannes Interview: Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles

By Ela Bittencourt
May 21, 2019
Country life: The directors of Bacurau on how the film‘s setting in Brazil’s wild backcountry informed their blistering portrait of resistance

Cannes Dispatch: And Then We Danced

By Eugene Hernandez
May 20, 2019
Old country waltz: Levan Akin’s And Then We Danced is a quietly revolutionary movie set in the former Soviet republic of Georgia

The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes 2019 Day 4

By Nicolas Rapold
May 18, 2019
Stretching out: Kantemir Balagov’s Beanpole, Franco Lolli’s Litigante, Brazilian politics, and more on today’s festival rundown

Film of the Week: Bacurau

By Jonathan Romney
May 17, 2019
It takes a village: though ungainly and sometimes ugly, there‘s a lot to admire in Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles‘s Cannes entry

The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes 2019 Day 3

By Nicolas Rapold
May 17, 2019
Taking aim: Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles’s Bacurau, Mati Diop’s Atlantique, the state of documentary at Cannes, and more

The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes 2019 Day 2

By Nicolas Rapold
May 16, 2019
Liberté, égalité, fraternité: our second report from the Riviera focuses on two first-time features, the explosive Les Misérables and the contemplative Bull

Cannes Dispatch: Agnès‘s Shadow

By Eugene Hernandez
May 15, 2019
Woman of the year: Agnès Varda looms large over the 72nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival

The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes 2019 Preview

By Nicolas Rapold
May 15, 2019
Look before you leap: Amy Taubin joins for a rundown of all the films we're most excited to see at this year’s festival