FELIPE GALVEZ: THE SETTLERS/LOS COLONOS (2023)
Brutal colonialism in 19th-century Chile is presented as art film Western. Cannes. It competed for Un Certain Regard and the Caméra d'Or, and alongside those was honored with the FIPRESCI Prize, becoming the first Chilean production to win that award.
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TODD HAYNES: MAY DECEMBER (2023)
NATALIE PORTMAN, JULIANNE MOORE IN MAY DECEMBER
Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore two-fer about an actress preparing for a role that reawakens a scandal from the past. (Cannes, competition.)
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YORGOS LANTHIMOS: POOR THINGS (2023)
EMMA STONE IN POOR THINGS
EMMA STONE AND MARK RUFFALO IN POOR THINGS
A sort of gaga reworking of the Frankenstein myth with a female re-creation admirably played by Emma Stone. Recently winner of the Golden Lion at Venice. (Emma Stone was not there due to the US actors' strike; Lanthimos, receiving the award, acknowledged her central importance in the film's success.)
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ALICE ROHRWACHER: LA CHIMERA (2023)
Set in the Tuscan countryside and centered around the theme of archeological looting and the illicit sale of artifacts. It debuted at Cannes.
It's "enchanting" (VARIETY) and "uproarious" and "captivating" and "teems with life," receiving one of only two five-star ratings from Bradshaw at this year's Cannes. It's a rollicking fantasy that features Josh O'Connor as a disheveled English archeologist now teamed up with a Felliniesque gang of grave-robbers who falls in love with the gone daughter of Isabella Rossellini. Watch the TRAILER and see if it's your kind of thing.
JOSH O'CONNOR IN LA CHIMERA
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RICHARD LINKLATER: HIT MAN (2013)
GLEN POWELL STARS IN HIT MAN
A philosophy professor moonlights as a dummy hit man for the New Orleans cops, then it gets more complicated when he gets personally involved with one of his seedy targets. Venice, Toronto.
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ANGELA SCHANELEC: MUSIC (2023
Berlinale Silver Bear winner, starts with a romance between a prisoner and a prison guard.
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BRADELY COOPER: MAESTRO (2023)
CAREY MULLIGAN AND BRADLEY COOPER in MAESTRO
Cooper directs a film about Leonard Bernstein, his marriage, and his gay dalliances, playing the lead. Premiered at Venice.
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AGNIESZKA HOLLAND: GREEN BORDER (2023)
A searing account n B&W of the refugee crisis aggravated by Belarus' authoritarian leader. Special prize at its Venice premiere.
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KLEBER MENDONÇA FILHO: PICTURES OF GHOSTS/RETRATOS FANTSMAS (2023)
A personal documentary about fading remnants of culture in downtown Recife since the picture palaces, once idyllic places, went dark. Cannes Special Screenings.
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ANNIE BAKER: JANET PLANET (2023)
Once again, A24 gambles on an unproven filmmaker, and once again, the indie studio comes away with an incredibly specific and personal glimpse into the mysteries of childhood.- Peter DeBruge, Variety. (Telluride.)
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SOFIA COPPOLA: PRISCILLA (2023)
CAILEE SPAENY IN PRISCILLA
The protected world of Elvis Presley's child bride. Venice.Child bride, infant sacrifice, bobbysoxer concubine: Priscilla Presley, wife of Elvis, is all these in Sofia Coppola’s eerily gripping, queasily claustrophobic portrait of marital loneliness, trapped behind the kitschy prison gates of Graceland while the King is away on tour, or shooting movies with glamorous worldly female co-stars and a creepily subservient male entourage. Priscilla becomes Memphis’s very own Lady Diana, with Ann-Margret or Nancy Sinatra in the Camilla Parker-Bowles role. (Bradshaw, Guardian.)
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NEO SORA: RYUICHI SAKAMOTO | OPUS
A filmed solo concert with the artist, who died at 71 in March of cancer. Venice.
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LISANDRO ALONSO: EUREKA (2023)
still from lisandro alonso's eureka
TRAILER
Three stories of indigenous people, at different timers and places. With Vggo Mortensen and Chiara Mastroianni in the first section. Cannes Premieres.
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RODRIGO MORENO: THE DELINQUENTS/LOS DELINCUENTES (2023)
TRAILER
Premise (IMDb): "Morán and Román are looking for freedom and adventure. One commits a robbery, discovering an alternative to his boring life, while the other hides money that doesn't belong to him. Their destiny as new criminals will bring them together." Cannes: Un Certain Regard. Peter Bradshaw called thi a "beguilingly surreal slow-motion Buenos Aires heist tale" and said that "If Pedro Almodóvar and Eric Rohmer teamed up to compose a meanderingly long crime caper it might look like this" - he gave it five stars in the G GUARDIAN.
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WIM WENDERS: PERFECT DAYS (2023)
KOJI YAKUSHO IN PERFECT DAYS
Depicts the life of toilet cleaners in Tokyo. Cannes, in competition, where the lead, acting legend Koji Yakusho, won the Best Actor prize
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