Céline Devaux’s feature debut, Everybody Loves Jeanne, is wild, hilarious, sweet, and chaotic: a delightful anti-rom-com. It screened in the Cannes sidebar Semaine de la Critique.
Cannes Film Festival
Cannes Review: Chie Hayakawa’s Plan 75 is a devastatingly unsentimental triumph
Chie Hayakawa’s Plan 75 is a plea for empathy amidst broken systems that leave the most vulnerable and elderly Regard sidebar at Cannes 2022.
Women at Cannes Ep. 2: Kelly Reichardt at Cannes 2022
On today’s episode, we look back on the career of one of our favourite filmmakers, Kelly Reichardt, and ask why it’s taken until her 8th feature, Showing Up, for her to get a slot in the Cannes Competition.
Women at Cannes Ep. 1: A podcast on the history of women directors at Cannes
We kick off our Women at Cannes podcast season with an episode on the history of women at Cannes and uncover a number of surprising stats.
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.
Une jeune fille qui va bien (A Radiant Girl) finds a new angle on life under fascism
Sandrine Kiberlain’s feature debut, Une jeune fille qui va bien (A Radiant Girl), is the story of an aspiring Parisian actress living under the Nazi occupation.