Category Archives: Festival de Cannes

CANNES FILM REVIEW: Atom Egoyan’s ‘Adoration’

Posted on May 23, 2008 by admin

By Ray Bennett CANNES – Atom Egoyan’s remarkable new film “Adoration” is a haunting meditation on the nature of received wisdom and how it can warp individuals, damage families and even threaten society. Shot on beautifully utilized film but employing … Continue reading →

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CANNES FILM REVIEW: James Gray’s ‘Two Lovers’

Posted on May 21, 2008 by admin

By Ray Bennett CANNES – They don’t make pictures like James Gray’s “Two Lovers” anymore. It’s an old-fashioned love story in which the melodramatic trapdoors of shock and surprise never open. Joaquin Phoenix plays a rumpled innocent with two coins … Continue reading →

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CANNES FILM REVIEW: Emir Kusturica’s ‘Maradona’

Posted on May 21, 2008 by admin

By Ray Bennett CANNES – Sarajevo filmmaker Emir Kusturica gives Argentine football legend Diego Maradona a big wet kiss in his Out of Competition documentary “Maradona by Kusturica”. In thrall to the iconic soccer wizard, the director makes the film … Continue reading →

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CANNES FILM REVIEW: ‘Eldorado’ by Bouli Lanners

Posted on May 19, 2008 by admin

By Ray Bennett CANNES – A couple of genial idiots in a beat-up Chevy hit the Belgian blacktops in Bouli Lanners’s funny and melancholy road picture “Eldorado” with widescreen images that suggest the American West and a soundtrack to match. … Continue reading →

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CANNES FILM REVIEW BRIEF: documentary ‘Modern Life’

Posted on May 19, 2008 by admin

By Ray Bennett CANNES – Veteran French photographer Raymond Depardon’s documentary “Modern Life”, in Un Certain Regard at the Festival de Cannes, is an elegy to ageing farmers and their fading way of life in remote but spectacular regions of … Continue reading →

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CANNES FILM REVIEW: James Toback’s ‘Tyson’

Posted on May 18, 2008 by admin

By Ray Bennett CANNES – When he’s not pounding very large men to the ground, ex-fighter Mike Tyson speaks directly to the camera in James Toback’s film “Tyson” and it’s hard not to flinch. More a testimony for the defense … Continue reading →

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CANNES FILM REVIEW: ‘The Seven Days’

Posted on May 18, 2008 by admin

By Ray Bennett CANNES – The rule imposed on the family spending a week in mourning in Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz’s “The Seven Days” requires a demonstration of pious grief lest people talk. But there is so much talk in … Continue reading →

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CANNES: Woody goes Spanish for ‘Barcelona’ soundtrack

Posted on May 18, 2008 by admin

By Ray Bennett CANNES – As usual, Woody Allen has scored his new movie, “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” (which stars Penelope Cruz, left) with synch tracks but instead of the American standards that accompany his Manhattan movies, this time he’s gone … Continue reading →

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CANNES FILM REVIEW BRIEF: ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona’

Posted on May 18, 2008 by admin

By Ray Bennett CANNES – Woody Allen and cinematographer Javier Aguirresarobe (“The Sea Inside,” “The Others”) make the most of the scenery in the comedy “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”, which screened Out of Competition at the Festival de Cannes, but the … Continue reading →

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CANNES FILM REVIEW: Steve McQueen’s ‘Hunger’

Posted on May 17, 2008 by admin

By Ray Bennett CANNES – Turner Prize-winning artist Steve McQueen brings the key tenets required to win Britain’s top honor for modern art to directing his first film, “Hunger,” and so it is trite, grim and feebly provocative. It tells … Continue reading →

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