With her first feature film, «Plan 75», Chie Hayakawa challenges the lack of care for the elderly in today's Japanese society. By immersing her audience in a fictional Japan, the director offers a contemporary interpretation of «The Ballad of Narayama» (1983).
Cinema is doubly an art of light. It sculpts images, movement and rhythm. And it creates characters to embody, underline and concretize ideas and characters. With «A Forgotten Man», the fourth film by Swiss director Laurent Nègre, this light becomes history, in a limpid and sublime form.
Spearheading elevated horror (more artistic horror cinema) since his excellent «Hereditary» (2018) and «Midsommar» (2019), Ari Aster presents «Beau is Afraid», somewhere between horrific tale and black comedy. But does the film live up to its promise over 2h59?
Despite the harsh scores played out by experts in seventh-art pedantry and the film's undeniable shortcomings, the return of «Les Trois Mousquetaires» to the big screen also marks the return of great popular French cinema. And much more besides.
Zurich-born Steven Michael Hayes' first feature film plunges us into the drama of an American family on the bangs of society. The film could have been a success in itself, but it goes beyond that.
Jonathan Barré, best known for his work with the Palmashow, is now embarking on a solo career, writing and directing his own story. An unevenly directed black comedy, «Bonne Conduite» struggles to detach itself from the humor that made the famous troupe famous.
For the first time in the history of the Cannes Film Festival, Pakistani cinema took to the Croisette, winning in the Un certain regard and Queer Palm categories. Saim Sadiq takes us on a journey through Pakistan's troubled history.
For her first feature film, Carmen Jaquier immerses us in the heights of Switzerland at the beginning of the 20th century. A militant coming-of-age that highlights adolescent emancipation in a society numbed by firm Catholic practice.
The «king of entertainment» returns with a semi-autobiographical film. «TheFabelmans» lacks narrative originality, but it's so human that it's a wonder to behold. A simple, lively story, for which Spielberg also wrote the screenplay.
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