CANNES 2023 - remote notes

[Chris Knipp]

Cannes...



CATE BLANCHETT IN THE NEW BOY

THE ZONE OF INTEREST (Jonathan Glazer)
Glazer adapts Martin Amis’s chilling Holocaust drama. Focusing on the everyday domesticity of the Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss’s family might only reflect the horror indirectly, but the film pulls the banality of evil into pin-sharp focus, reports Peter Bradshaw in the GUARDIAN, giving it four stars. Note: Martin Amis has just died at 73.

THE NEW BOY (Warwick Thornton)
"Cate Blanchett’s boozy nun indulges possible second coming in woozy wartime saga"...
"Blanchett in imperious zealot mode is hard to resist, but Warwick Thornton’s story of orphans and evangelists in the 40s outback never quite fulfills its promise," says Bradshaw, who gives the movie three stars in his Cannes GUARDIAN review. A minor effort from the hitherto interesting Australian director., says Bradshaw, who gives it three stars.

BANEL & ADAMA (Ramata-Toulaye Sy)
This Senegalese village love story with echoes of Romeo and Juliet is Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s Cannes Competition debut film, which pairs reluctant chief Adama and troublesome widow Banel as they battle local hostility to continue their relationship - A FILM " with relevant things to say about community, a woman’s place and the climate crisis", it gets three stars from Bradshaw in the GUARDIAN.