CANNES 2023 - remote notes

[Chris Knipp]

Cannes...


PHOEBE WALLER0BRIDGE AND HARRISON FORD

INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY (James Mangold) - "Harrison Ford cracks the whip in taut sequel. . . There’s still much to dig about the octogenarian archeologist as he teams up with Phoebe Waller-Bridge to re-defeat the Nazis....Indiana Jones still has a certain old-school class." Three stars (Bradshaw in the GUARDIAN)


THE DELINQUENTS

THE DELINQUENTS (Rodrigo Moreno) – beguilingly surreal slow-motion Buenos Aires [bank] heist tale. "If Pedro Almodóvar and Eric Rohmer teamed up to compose a meanderingly long crime caper it might look like this" - five stars (Bradshaw reviewing the 3-hour Buenos Aires film for the GUARDIAN.)

ANIMAL KINGDOM by Thomas Cailley imagines another kind of covid."While the world was grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic, French director Thomas Cailley (2014's LOVE AT FIRST FIGHT) was imagining another kind of coronavirus, one he’d cooked up before the crisis, but which suddenly took on new real-world relevance. In “The Animal Kingdom,” a mysterious malady is sweeping France" Featuring Romain Duris, Paul Kircher of Honoré's WINTER BOY, Tom Mercier of SYNONYMS and WE ARE WHO WE ARE. Peter Debruge reviews it in Variety.