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Holy Motors: A truly cinematic experience
An absurdly comic film, satirizing cinema and modern life in a dark atmosphere, Holy Motors by Leos Carax will surely be one of the memorable films in the official selection even if it does not win. This is one film ... En savoir plus »
Infancia Clandestina: Childhood love story under military regime
In an atmosphere filled with fear and suspicion, Infancia Clandestina by Benjamin Avela, relays the life a child, who comes from a family of Montoneros, a movement against the then Argentinian military dictatorship. A memoir of the filmmaker’s childhood, the ... En savoir plus »
The We and the: An unusual bus ride
Michel Gondry’s The We and the I comes off as irritating at first yet slowly unfolds to reveal its hidden beauty shoved up beneath adolescent blabber. Though it nothing compared to his emotionally captivating and highly intimate Eternal Sunshine of ... En savoir plus »
Baad El Mawkea: Class warfare after the Egyptian revolution
Baad El Mawkea (After the Battle) weaves documentation with fiction to reflect upon the different social classes and their lives pre- and post- revolution. It also presents a narrative very closely linked to the changing political events. Making a feature ... En savoir plus »
Cannes daily’s aready brimming with stories
With the festival’s opening just a few hours away, daily festival magazines like Screeen and Variety were being distributed by the Palais. Screen Daily, which had the poster of the festival’s opening film as its front cover, featured some news ... En savoir plus »
Passersby on the eve of the festival opening
Walking around are organizers, journalists and residents and tourists. There are also people from the fashion industry, who come every year to observe the fashion trends. Robert Schienberg, who works in the sun glass industry, is in Cannes to see ... En savoir plus »
Contemplations about the future of Egyptian cinema
While the Egyptian cinema has artistically deteriorated in the past few decades, the current revolution suggests a change in the field, whether for the better or worse. With bloody clashes between security forces and protesters almost every month, citizens have ... En savoir plus »
