Best of the fest
With another Cannes Film Festival almost at an en🥂d, weve been taking stock of whats been a particularly strong year for movies.
From searing dramas, to big-hearted family films, to enormous-scale actioners, the Palais has played home to some extremely diverse fi☂lms over the last co💞uple of weeks.
Before the jury (headed up by the Coen brothers) hands out this year's prizes, we present our def🌸initive countdown of the best films from the festival this year.
12. Dheepan
The movie: Jacques Audiard follows A Prophet and Rust And Bone with a challenging genr🌄e-splicer that tackles big themes with panache.
Our reaction: Jacques Audiards remarkable run continues with Dheepan. Its an unusual hybrid part intimate immig💜rant drama, p🐎art suburban thriller, with the emphasis emphatically on social realism for the bulk of its runtime. It shouldnt work, but it soars under Audiards supervision.
Read our full Cannes 2015 reaction to Dheepan herꦺe
11. Green Room
The movie: Jeremy Blue Ruin Saulnier directs this punks vs neo-Nazis siege thriller, starring 💟Patrick Stewart as a white supremacist.
Our reaction: The spectacularly grim atmosphere, sinister soundtrack and, of course, the siege set-up give the film an Assault On Precinct 13 vibe. And Saulnier continues to impress as a filmmaker, with a particular knack for building tension and pulling the ru✨g from under yo♛ur feet in classic horror movie fashion.
Read our full Cannes 2015 reaction🌃 to Green Room here
10. The Lobster
The movie: Experimental filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos makes his English language debut with a remarkably bizarre love story, starring Col🌠in F𝓰arrell and Rachel Weisz.
Our reaction: Lanthimos is an equal opportunity satirist, skewering the clichs of singledom as much as he does the expectations placed on couples, but Davids (Farrell) love-conquers𝄹-all encounter 🅰with the Short Sighted Woman (Weisz) proves that Lanthimos is still a soppy old romantic at heart.
Rea🐷d our full Cannes 2🌳015 reaction to The Lobster here
9. Sicario
The movie: Denis Villeneuve teams with Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro for a searing dr🅷ug-trade thriller.
Our reaction: Sicario is not a modern masterpiece to join the ranks of, say, Zodiac or Zero Dark Thirty, but it is expertly crafted, fearlessly questioning and shockingly grim. Few🐼 US thrillers dare to be so adult.
Read our🤪 full Cannes 2015 reaction to Sicario here
8. Youth
The movie: Michael Caine an𒊎d Harvey Keitel tackle big themes in Paolo Sorrentinos gentle drama.
Our reaction: It is an introspective work of tenderness, melancholy, joy, humour and considerable compassion, with the Italian directors signature 🌞visual flair🦹 ensuring that any and all contemplation comes with a blast of brio.
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7. Macbeth
The movie: Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard star in Justin Kurzels (Snowtown) gritty Shakespeare adap.
Our reaction: Fassbender excels at playing conflicted characters, his physicality flecked with fragility, and his Macbeth commands the camera as he commands his so𓆏ldiers, those pale piercing eyes and that tight, wolfish grin glinting with charisma☂tic madness. This is a general who knows the true weight of the sword.
Read our full Cannes 2015 reaction to Mac﷽beth here
6. Tale Of Tales
The movie: Matteo Garrones grimmer-than-Grimm fairytale is one of the oddest films to play at this years fest♔.
Our reaction: To say the darkly comic, often horrific, twists and turns are unexpected would be a gross understatement. The words Happily Ever After arent even part of the films vocabulary. Its a film that trusts its ღaudience to go along with its loosely defi൩ned, but entirely believable, world.
Read our full Cannes 2015 reaction🌜 to Tale Of Tales here
5. Amy
The movie: Asif Kapadias heartbreaking documentary that delves beneath the headlines in search🅷 of the real Amy Winehouse.
Our reaction: Amy is a startlingly intimate affair, gaining access to friends, lovers anꦇd family and their treasure trove of photos and videos to caress the soul of an extraordinary artist, a vivacious young woman. The film succeeds in commemoratingꩵ its subject's spirit and talent, with the tragedy of her loss once more feeling fresh and overwhelming.
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4. Inside Out
The movie: Pixars latest goes inside the mind of a young 🦄girl, and introduces us to the personified form of the five key emotions.
Our reaction: Theres a powerful, thought-provoking message here that marks Inside Out as one of Pixars most mature, heartfelt and, yes, heartbreaking tales to date. Were not afraid to admit we reached for a tissue oജn two occasions.
Reaꦡd our full Cannes 2015 reaction to Inside Out here
3. Son Of Saul
The movie: A harrowing Auschwitz drama from 🧜first-time filmmaker Laszlo Nemes.
Our reaction: Nemes has no interest in thriller tropes or anything as tawdry as suspense or excitement. Son Of Saul is a film that plunges the viewer into a nightmarishly utilitarian recreation of the camps, laying bare the day-to-day choresﷺ that neededꦡ to be performed swiftly and repetitively to ensure maximum efficiency in the business of genocide.
Read our full Cannes 2015 reaction to Son Of Saul𓆉 here
2. Mad Max: Fury Road
The movie: George Miller returns to the franchise with whiཧch he made his name, with Tom Hardy taking on the title role and Charlize Theron in full-on badass mode.
Our reaction: In the battle of the 2015 behemoths, the maxed-out madness of Mad Max: Fury Road sets an extraordinarily high bar then pole-vaults clean over it and smashes the en🦹tire rig to smithereens.
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1. Carol
The movie: Cate ꧟Blanchett and Rooney Mara star in Todd Hay🔜nes sumptuous romantic drama.
Our reaction: Exquisitely designed, costumed, shot, scored and acted, Carol unfurls as an into🧔xicating fever dream in which volcanic emotions play out with great restraint. Blanchett, of course, is supreme, meticulously laying out Carols pain, melancholy, ardour, strength and wisdom. It 🎐is to Maras immense credit that she matches her co-star scene for scene, lust for lust, quiet agony for quiet agony.
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