Cannes Film Fest (In Competition) Vet indie director James Gray (Ad Astra, The Yards) returns to the 1980s and the neighborhood of Queens, New York, where he grew up. He offers a loving but unvarnished family portrait that traces the seeds from which he the artist has evolved and the lessons, especially racial and interracial, which […]

Under the Fig Trees (Directors’ Fortnight) Erige Sehiri’s intimate and original feature debut, Under the Fig Trees, chronicles the lives of women seldom appearing in screen–a group of Tunisian fig harvesters. The stories are rooted in realism. | Photo: Courtesy of Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Trailing the characters as they pick fruit, gossip, sing, quarrel, and […]

Cannes Film Fest 2022: Favorites A coming-of-age memory piece from James Gray, a devastating donkey story, and documentary about surgery were among favorites from the fest.     ‘Armageddon Time,’ ‘One Fine Morning,’ ‘Showing Up’ and ‘Tori and Lokita’ COURTESY OF FOCUS FEATURES; COURTESY OF LES FILMS PELLEAS; COURTESY OF ALLYSON RIGGS/A24; CHRISTINE PLENUS   Aftersun […]