Cannes 2012, May 16-27

[Chris Knipp]

D'Angelo has his AV Club Day Four piece up hare. However since it deals with Hillcoat, Vinterberg and Dolan, three he's not too wild about, I won't summarize here. Hillcoat pleased him mainly as an escape into more mainstream entertaining fare as relief from the intense flow of festival art films. He thought Vinteerberg's treatment of a man falsely accused of child sexual abuse was well done and more in CELEBRATION mode, but a bit out of date and also too one-note, lacking ambiguity. Dolan he thought way too long, and Melvil Poupaud happens to be his least favorite well-known male French movie actor. Tomorrow he will review Haneke, and he's coming to Kiarostami, whose new film (in Japanese, remember) he has not apparently seen yet.

By the way I never said that D'Angelo was my favorite film reviewer, only that he's my favorite English language Cannes festival reporter and thumbnail critic of Cannes films. Once in a while he also comes up with something passionate and great, like his letter to Lars von Trier about ANTICHRIST. That doesn't happen every day (and I understand).

June 21, 2012 (in Paris, anyway).