September 5 focuses on a sports broadcasting team who suddenly find themselves covering a hostage crisis when the Palestinian militant organization Black September infiltrates the Olympic Village.
Blue Sun Palace: Writer-Director Constance Tsang’s First Feature, Tale of Dislocation (Cannes Film Fest 2024, Critics Week)
July 13, 2024 by
Writer-director Constance Tsang’s first feature, Blue Sun Palace, is a story about inevitable dislocation and the devastating effects of displacement.
Julie Keeps Quiet: Leonardo Van Dijl’s riveting psychological drama, Un Certain Regard (Cannes Film Fest 2024, Good Film)
July 12, 2024 by
Highlights of Critics Week, Cannes Film Fest 2024: “Julie Keeps Quiet” (Belgium)
Banel & Adama: Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s Desert Romance (Weak Films in Competition, Cannes Fest 2023)
July 9, 2024 by
Throughout this story of drought, dust and drudgery, the characters’ names, Banel and Adama, take on incantatory power that’s matched by the sun-blasted beauty of Sy’s visuals.
Club Zero (2023): Austrian Jessica Hausner’s New Film (Weak Competition Films, Cannes Film Fest 2023)
July 9, 2024 by
Her critical admirers almost abandoned her when she made in 2019 her disappointing English-language horror-thriller Little Joe.
