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Home / Podcasts / Ep. 102: Cannes 2021

Seventh Row Editors / July 28, 2021

Ep. 102: Cannes 2021

Alex and Orla discuss the Cannes 2021 films they watched from home: a couple of competition titles, and even more interesting sidebar films that flew under the radar.

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Cannes 2021 films, clockwise from top left i: Vicky Krieps and Tim Roth in Bergman Island; Rakel Lenora Fløttum and Sam Ashraf in The Innocents; A hospital scene in H6; Rebecca Marder in A Radiant Girl

This episode features Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney and Executive Editor Orla Smith.

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On this episode

  • Announcements (1:11)
  • Cannes and COVID (4:54)
  • Cannes Winners (9:32)
  • The Divide (Catherine Corsini) (19:10)
  • Bergman Island (Mia Hansen-Løve) (22:19)
  • The films we have not many thoughts on (36:32)
  • How Cannes treats documentaries (41:20)
  • Murina (Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović) (47:05)
  • Olga (Elie Grappe) (50:23)
  • A Radiant Girl (Sandrine Kiberlain) (54:53)
  • The Innocents (Eskil Vogt) (1:02:58)
  • Conclusion (1:11:54)

Episode Notes

  • Read Alex’s review of Une jeune fille qui va bien (A Radiant Girl)
  • Read Alex’s 2018 interview with Cannes “breakout” Anders Danielsen Lie
  • Read Alex’s 2017 interview with Eskil Vogt, on Thelma
  • Read Mary Angela Rowe’s review of Julia Ducournau’s Raw
  • Read Elena Lazic’s 2019 interview with Mia Hansen-Løve on Maya
  • Read our January article about the thirty films we’re most looking forward to in 2021

Related episodes

  • Ep. 84: Berlinale 2021, Part 2: The Competition
  • Ep. 83: Berlinale 2021, Part 1: The Sidebars
  • Ep. 82: Genocide on Film: Quo Vadis, Aida and Our Lady of the Nile
  • Ep. 79: Sundance 2021, Part 2
  • Ep. 78: Sundance 2021, Part 1
  • Ep. 75: Portrayals of disability in Sound of Metal and Blind
  • Ep. 17: Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale (Members Only)

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