Women’s Role in Film on the Red Carpet at Cannes
Cannes. Charlize Theron’s character Imperator Furiosa in “Mad Max: Fury Road” is pretty much on an equal footing with Tom Hardy playing the road warrior of the title, but the South African actress says...
View ArticleKore-eda’s Contemplative Style is Palme d’Or Material
Cannes. Japan’s Hirokazu Kore-eda has an unhurried, contemplative way of telling stories — a choice that could well earn him the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film festival for “Umimachi Diary”. Speaking to...
View ArticleNew ‘Mad Max’ Delivers a Singular Thrill – With High Style
Cannes. “Mad Max: Fury Road” is a movie of singularities. “Furiosa Imperator” Charlize Theron is a woman missing a forearm, “Mad Max” Tom Hardy is a man of few words and the movie has basically one...
View ArticlePortman Says Directing Cannes Debut Film Was a Challenge
Cannes. Natalie Portman played a ballerina in the grip of psychological trauma in “Black Swan,” but the Israeli actress said she had lots of support while directing her first film, about the childhood...
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To Heel or Not to Heel, That is the Cannes Question
British actress Emily Blunt seen at the Cannes Film Festival. (AFP Photo/Anne-Christine Poujoulat) Cannes. Perhaps not since Cinderella lost a glass slipper at the ball has there been such a stir about...
View Article‘Sicario’ With Emily Blunt as FBI Agent Brings Drug Wars to Cannes
Cannes. A film that Canadian director Denis Villeneuve says is meant to break “a cover of silence” about the brutality of the Mexican drug trade and the complicity of users in the violence that feeds...
View ArticleIcelandic Film on Sheepfarmer Brothers Wins Cannes ‘Regard’ Prize
Cannes. An Icelandic movie about two sheepfarming brothers who have not spoken in 40 years but are brought together by an outbreak of a disease that threatens their flocks won the Un Certain Regard...
View ArticleCannes Gets a Fassbender ‘Macbeth’ Suffering Combat Stress
Cannes. Michael Fassbender is a “Macbeth” for our times, suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, while Marion Cotillard is a Lady Macbeth haunted by the loss of a child, in the final competition...
View ArticleFrance Wins Big, Italy, Blanchett Lose Out in Cannes
Cannes. French film “Dheepan” won the top Palme d’Or prize for director Jacques Audiard at the 68th Cannes International Film Festival on Sunday, crowning a good night for French cinema but a bad one...
View ArticlePenguin Film Director Gives Climate Warning in Cannes Closer
Cannes. The French director who charmed the world and won an Oscar with his 2005 documentary “March of the Penguins” closed the Cannes festival on a somber note with a film about global warming that...
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