My Cannes 2017 diary: Twitter reactions, reviews, and interviews about the films I saw in Cannes, covering the festival for @SeventhRow. I did not tweet about every single film I saw, but about the most interesting ones, so maybe that’s for the best. Occasional appearances from @ManiLazic.
Film Festivals
Marcela Said on Los Perros: ‘As women, we take risks that men do not take.’
Presented in Critics’ Week, Chilean director Marcela Said’s Los Perros is part of a welcome resurgence of political films at the Cannes Film Festival. Free-spirited, sexually liberated Mariana develops a relationship with her riding teacher Juan. When she learns that he is being prosecuted for crimes committed as a serviceman under Pinochet, she recklessly seeks […]
Review: In Marcela Said’s Los Perros, the personal is political
Los Perros fearlessly reveals the dilemma for women forced to choose between a desire to do whatever they want, and a desire to be recognised as political individuals.
That is not what I meant at all: Claire Denis’ Bright Sunshine In (Un Beau Soleil Intérieur)
Opening the Director’s Fortnight this year, Bright Sunshine In (Un Beau Soleil Intérieur) is an often disarming but always exciting new film from the French master Claire Denis.
HotDocs Interview: Marie Clements chronicles Canada’s Indigenous Civil Rights Movement in musical doc The Road Forward
Métis/Dene filmmaker and playwright Marie Clements discusses her musical documentary, The Road Forward, which chronicles Canada’s Indigenous Civil Rights Movement.
Review: Katell Quillévéré’s Heal the Living is a visual delight
Katell Quillévéré’s Heal the Living is an utterly original film about the threshold between life and death, in which the camera moves through a hospital’s halls like blood coursing through the veins.