Film Review: ‘Letters From Baghdad’
The real jewels of the film are the scores of archival films from the early 1900s through the 1930s, many retaining their original tinting and stencil colors, offering a window into Bell's world.
Jay Weissberg
Cannes Film Review: ‘Fortunata’
Jasmine Trinca delivers an over-sized, nervy performance but the material is so flawed that it's hard to truly say whether it's exceptional acting.
Cannes Film Review: ‘After the War’
For those wondering where director Zambrano's sympathies lie, it's not with the terrorist: Lamberti is a complex character yet his overriding trait is egotism.
Cannes Film Review: ‘Pure Hearts’
Roberto De Paolis' debut is a story of marginalized youth whose unlikely meeting on the periphery of Rome starts a process of self-questioning that leads to both liberation and pain.
Cannes Film Review: ‘In the Fade’
The excellent first quarter gives way to a standard-issue though handsome legal drama with several stock characters and a script guided by the presumed requirements of mainstream cinema.
Cannes Film Review: ‘A Gentle Creature’
A dense, nightmarish feature taking aim at Russia's befouled soul, in which a nameless woman undergoes a hellish journey through a society stripped of humanity.
Cannes Film Review: ‘Rodin’
Jacques Doillon's "Rodin" is a meticulously reverential, handsomely lit, and very dull biopic about the 19th century's most revolutionary sculptor.
Cannes Film Review: ‘Golden Years’
A disappointingly ragtag period piece, clearly plagued by script problems, that's lifeless to the core.
Cannes Film Review: ‘Gabriel and the Mountain’
João Pedro Zappa deserves much credit for making Gabriel so vibrant, and Barbosa has done an exceptional job melding his and Caroline Abras' performances with those of the non-professionals.
Cannes Film Review: ‘The Venerable W.’
As Barbet Schroeder well knows, there are times when only the word "evil" properly conveys the insidious nature of intolerance and carnage robed in the trappings of power.
Cannes Film Review: ‘Beauty and the Dogs’
The callousness of (un)civil society, together with police repulsiveness, is a subject needing to be constantly re-mined, yet the chilly mise-en-scène lessens the impact.
