Lock Up Your Daughters! Part 2: François Ozon’s Young & Beautiful
A schoolgirl becomes a call girl in this evocative drama with a star-making role for Marine Vacth
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Mud: Matthew McConaughey as an Outlaw in Love
Writer-director Jeff Nichols mines visual and dramatic poetry from this coming-of-age melodrama about a boy and the murderer he admires
Amour: A Love Story for the Aged
Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant are incandescent in Michael Haneke’s fable of immortal devotion
Dragon: The One-Armed Swordsman With a Heart
Martial-arts icon Donnie Yen stars in this thrilling story of a family man with killer moves
Rust and Bone: Marion Cotillard and Oscar Mania
The Academy Award-winning star of ‘La vie en rose’ shines in a love story where tragedy plays matchmaker
The Paperboy: Down and Dirty with Zac, Matthew and Nicole
Southern Gothic sex drives this lurid melodrama from the director of ‘Precious’
Robert Redford’s The Company You Keep: Old Radicals Die Hard
That icon of movie liberalism rounds up some fine old stars—Julie Christie, Susan Sarandon, Nick Nolte—for a thriller about veterans of the Weather Underground
The Artist: Cannes’ Beauty Spot
Delight is not a word frequently associated with the films at Cannes. Seriousness, slowness, strangeness: the movies on the Grand Palais screen are often dour and demanding. This year the world’s most acclaimed directors have …
Sean Penn Leads a Fast Five Films for Friday
The countdown ticks toward Sunday’s Palme d’Or ceremony. With two days left, only two of the 20 film in competition are left to see. In a Festival that began with big names and high hopes, a gentle malaise has settled upon the
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Lars von Trier: “O.K., I’m a Nazi”
Within the hour, Richard Corliss will be posting his review of Lars von Trier’s (in my view, excellent) new film Melancholia, which had its world premiere this morning. But von Trier, the wildly talented, supremely maddening Danish director of such Cannes favorites as Europa/Zentropa, Breaking the Waves and Antichrist, topped himself for …
Restless: Gus Van Sant Draws a Blank
The other night we had the pleasure of meeting Mia Wasikowska, the wan, wonderful young actress who has played the title roles in Alice in Wonderland and Jane Eyre and was in Cannes to promote her new film, Restless. Tall and polite, and flashing deep dimples she almost never reveals on screen, the 21-year-old Australian rhapsodized …
We Need to Talk About Kevin: The Face of Pure Evil
When a child dies, it is a tragedy for the parents, an upsetting of the natural order. But when a child kills, is the parent also guilty of the crime? We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lynne Ramsay’s solid, scary film that became …
Wu Xia: Martial Arts Majesty
Wu Xia, which will be called Dragon when The Weinstein Company releases it in the United States, brought the Festival’s weekend slate roaring to life. An antidote to the slow, overweight Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger …
