Seventeen years, that’s a long time to prepare a film, and it’s how long actress-director Maïwenn has spent on “Jeanne Du Barry,” which inaugurates the Cannes Festival today, a film that’s a nod to Sofia Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette” which was shown here in 2006, but also a nod to the past since real-life Marie-Antoinette became Louis XVI's wife, ending the courtesan's favored place in the court. It is thanks to "Marie-Antoinette"
CANNES, FRANCE - Some firsts at the Cannes Festival which starts today, an Italian contingent in the competition slate and what I look forward to the most this year.
At the helm of the festival this 76th edition a woman, Iris Knobloch, who replaces Pierre Lescure as president of the festival after a tenure that lasted six years. Programmer Thierry Frémaux and she already know each other
Small and unexpected things can sometimes change your entire world.
Mordecai (Judd Hirsch) likes to fix things, but his phone is from twenty years ago and is held together with duct tape and tin foil. He’s worked his entire life as a plumber and a painter. But this is a story about the things he cannot fix, like getting older, the Alzheimer’s diagnosis of his wife Fela (Carol Kane), and his relationship
The documentary film “Dreams’ Gate” (“Darvazeye royaha” in the original [...]
“Blanquita,” Chile’s Official Oscar entry for 2022 for International Best [...]
Kino Lorber announced the U.S. theatrical release of “Utama,” the [...]
Paris-- The winners have been announced and they are as follows:
The Short Film Palme D'Or goes to Jinanying Chen for "The Water Murmurs"
Special mention in the short film category for "Lori" by Abinash Bikram Shah
Special mention: "Plan 75" by Hayakawa

