CANNES 2023 - remote notes

[Chris Knipp]

Cannes... new headlines and previews


MONSTER (KORE-EDA)

From the GUARDIAN:

Homecoming review – Catherine Corsini’s tragic family drama misses an inner life - two stars (Bradshaw).

Monster review – 'Hirokazu Kore-eda’s hydra of modern morals and manners' - four stars (Bradshaw). Monster Review: "Kore-eda Hirokazu Hides Surprise Plea for Acceptance Beneath Much Darker Themes" - Peter Debruge, Variety. Action revolves around a fire, and at the end we find out who set it.

Youth review – heart-stopping stories in China’s sweatshop capital - four stars (Bradshaw). Doc by Wang Bing (Dead Souls, Cannes Special Screening 2018). "Exceptional" (Deadline), "unflinching" (Variety).

The Delinquents review (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)

More details later today.