It is over. Eleven gone-in-a-blur days, more movies than is good for our health, and some of the most criminal attempts to order in French ever attempted (“Je voudrais un glass ♏of red wine, s'il vous plait” being a particular classic.)
After a slow first few days wheeled out a platter of surprisingly mediocre films given this is the most prestigious film festival on Earth and can cherry-pick from the cream of world cinema, Festival de Cannes clicked into gear. There followed a host of quality films, though our favourite two c𒁏hoices both played outside of the main competition, meaning there was no chance of snaffling the Palme d’Or for them. What were they? Scroll down to find out…
13. Under the Silver Lake
The movie: David Robert Mitchell’s follow-up to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:It Follows is an opaque, labyrinthine, Lynch-meets-Hitchcock LA noir as a disenchanted Andrew Garfield searches for his mꦅysterious neighbour after she disappears. Divisive, but we liked it plenty.
Our reaction: “Reminiscent of classic LA noirs The Long Goodbye, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Inherent Vice and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Mulholland Drive thisไ is a story of dashed dreams, and the arrogance of a generation who believes the world orbits around them… And while there’s a certain indulgent quality to Silver Lake which smacks of a directo🎶r handed carte blanche, the film's merits far outweigh its shortcomings.”
Read our full review of Under The Silv🥀er Lake here
12. Happy As Lazzaro
The movie: Aಞlice Rohrwacher’s first feature since 2014’s warmly received The Wond🔯ers starts as a story of sharecroppers in rural Italy, where a naive farmhand befriends a marquis, before taking a surreal and inspired turn...
Our reaction: “Rohrwacher’s rural/social/magical realist fable may be the most humane film of the festival. The firsജt half is beguiling, ♚and beautifully shot on Super 16mm, but it’s only in the socially conscious second half that it becomes truly bewitching. Don’t read too much before watching.”
11. Wildlife
The movie: Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey ൩Mulligan star in actor Paul Dano’s directorial debut. Adapting Richard Ford’s ’91 novel, it’s the sto♍ry of a crumbling marriage in ’60s Montana told from the perspective of a 14-year-old boy.
Our reaction: “As an actor Paul Dano specialises in u𝓡nassumingly brilliant supporting performances studied in subsurface emotion and precise restraint. He brings these exacting qualities to his directorial debut Wildlife, a quietly devastating coming of age movie dipped in poison.”
澳洲幸运5开奖号码💎历史查询:Read our full review of Wildlife here
10. Cold War
The movie: British-Polish writer-director Pawel Pawlikowski’s first film since his Oscar-winning Ida traꦫcks a doomed romance across Europe, spanning the entirety of the 1950’s.
Our reaction: “Its dazzling monochrom🐼e compositions favour placing actors low in the square frame and achieving IMAX impact by oppressing them w🃏ith towering structures and huge, weighty skies… Cold War is humane even as it digs for social truths.”
澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查𒀰询:Read our full review of Cold War here
9. The Wild Pear Tree
The movie: Palme d’Or winner (Winter Sleep) Nuri Bilge Ceylan retur⭕ned to the competition with this 188-minute tale of a struggli🐎ng writer, freshly graduated, returning to his small hometown.
Our reaction: “Plays something like a 188-minute Turkish take on Linklater’s Slacker - walking and talking about everything from the responsibility of the artist to the Koran, from technology to ꩲfree love vs arranged ma🐻rriage. A heavyweight fathers and sons tale, too.”
8. Dogman
The movie: Gomorrah director Matteo Garrone returns to grit-paved mean streets for th✤e tal🔯e of a gentle dog groomer who’s strong-armed into criminal activities with devastating results.
Our reaction: “This is a movie about the grubbiness, pointlessness and cowa🍬rdliness of crime, while simultaneously recognising that such behaviour is the inevitable consequence of terrible circumstances. The protagonists find themselves on a slide towards ruination that is both authentic and inexorable.”
澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Read our full review of Dogman here
7. Solo: A Star Wars Story
The movie: Prequel to A New Hope in which a cocky wa🐓nnabe pilot callꦚed Han meets-not-so-cute with a hairball named Chewbacca and embarks on a thrilling adventure.
Our reaction: “Hitting lightspeed from its opening sequence and rarely letting up, Solo doesn’t have the emotional heft or lingering impact of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Force Awakens, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Last Jedi or, indeed, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Rogue One, but it’s the most fun entry since A New Hope. D𝓀on’t expect this movie to fly solo – a flyboy franchise is a guarantee.”
Read our full review of Sꩲolo: A Star Wars Story here
6. Burning
The movie: Based on a Haruki Murakami short story, Lee Chang-dong’s slow-burn, sublimely ambiguous thriller revolves around two guys and a girl but Twilight ꦆit most certainly isn’t.
Our reaction: “A trio of expertly judged performances glide through this enigmatic, discombo😼bulating film which is at once a genre piece, a disquieting character study and a haunting reflection on Korea’s socio-economic divide.”
5. Ash is the Purest White
The movie: A gangster’s moll gets five years in prison for firing a♔ gun to protect him. Getting out, she goes on a startling journey as she searches for the ma⛄n she gave up so much for.
Our reaction: “The final chapter stumbles but th🎀is is two-thirds of a masterpiece from A Touch of Sin director Jia Zhang-ke, and is powered by a remarkable performance from the great Zhao Tao.”
4. Capharnaüm
The movie: A 12-year-old boy is in court to sue his parents ♍for giving him life. Extended flashbacks show us why.
Our reaction: “A touch schmaltzy in places and the wraparound story distracts, but, for the main pa💃rt, this is stunning social-realism fro🔯m Lebanese director Nadine Labaki as a 12-year-old boy and his one-year-old charge battle to survive on the streets. Brilliantly made, superbly acted.”
3. BlacKkKlansman
The movie: Spike Lee’s latest joint, starring Denzel’s son David John Washington and Adam Driver, is the crazy true-life tale of a black c✨op infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan in ‘70s Colorado.
Our reaction: “As well as being consistently funny, BlacKkKlansman throbs with f-bombs, disco dancing, split screens, loaded movie clips (Gone With the Wind, The Birth of a Nation), big collars and bigger hair, and also makes for a riveting undercover procedural thriller rep🦂lete with all the tropes. It is also one of Lee’s most angry, focused, politically charged films, primed to detonate in Trump’s America.”
澳洲幸运5开奖号码历𒅌史查询:Read our full review of BlacKkKlansman here
2. Mandy
The movie: Nic Cage loses his wife to a Satanic cu💖lt and the trio of leather-clad hell-demons they summon. Revenge is a dish best served bonkers…
Our reaction: “Cage breaks out a cross-bow, a chainsaw and a gigantic silver axe like something out of a Manowar photo shoot, his grin getting bigger and bri𓆏ghter with each fresh gallon of blood that sprays his face.”
澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Read our full review of Mandy here
1. Climax
The movie: A dance troupe down some spiked Sangria and turn on each other in an orgiastic frenzy of rut♕ting and killing.
Our reaction: “It’s electrified filmmaking, and full credit goes to Noé’s crew for the magic they work staging, lighting a🌟nd capturing a thor🍬oughly convincing underworld, bathing the dance hall in demonic red light as the camera performs the kind of gymnastics an Olympic athlete would win a gold medal for…”
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