Broker – Cannes Film Festival 2022 Review Alysha Prasad June 30, 2022 Reviews The newest South Korean drama, Broker, written and directed by the great Hirokazu Kore-eda introduces us to Sang-hyeon (Song Kang-ho) and Dong-soo (Gang Dong-won), who steal babies from a church's baby box to...
Decision to Leave – Cannes Film Festival 2022 Review Alysha Prasad June 2, 2022 Reviews Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave (Heojil kyolshim) follows a murder investigation headed by the highly respected detective, Hae-jun (Park Hae-il), who begins to fall for the primary suspect in his case, a...
Crimes of the Future – Cannes Film Festival 2022 Review Alysha Prasad June 2, 2022 Reviews Film auteur David Cronenberg is back at last with his newest sexy body horror, Crimes of the Future, which was arguably the most anticipated film premiering at the Cannes Film Festival this year. Along with...
Close – Cannes Film Festival 2022 Review Alysha Prasad June 2, 2022 Reviews Lukas Dhont’s Belgian drama, Close, stars Eden Dambrine and Gustav de Waele as Léo and Rémi, two thirteen-year-old boys on the precipice of adolescence with a fiercely strong bond that seems inseparable...
Triangle of Sadness Review – Cannes Film Festival 2022 Alysha Prasad May 29, 2022 Reviews Repeat after me: "Money! Money! MONEY!" Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness stars Harris Dickinson and Charlbi Dean as Carl and Yaya, a hot model couple who just can’t stop arguing about who should pay...
R.M.N. Review – Cannes Film Festival 2022 Alysha Prasad May 29, 2022 Reviews Cristian Mungiu’s R.M.N. stars Marin Grigore as Matthias, who returns to his multi-ethnic Transylvanian village after quitting his job. in Germany and reunites with his son, Rudi (Mark Blenyesi), and his old...
Armageddon Time Review – Cannes Film Festival 2022 Alysha Prasad May 29, 2022 Reviews James Gray’s highly anticipated Armageddon Time is a coming-of-age memoir set in the 80’s based on Gray’s experience growing up in Queens, New York, as told through the life of Paul Graff (Banks Repeta)...
Tchaikovsky’s Wife Review – Cannes Film Festival 2022 Alysha Prasad May 29, 2022 Reviews The turbulent marriage between Russia’s most famous composer, Pyotr Tchaikovsky (Odin Lund Biron), and his wife, Antonina Miliukova (Alyona Mikhailova), is the focus of Kirill Serebrennikov’s historical...
Final Cut – Cannes Film Festival 2022 Alysha Prasad May 18, 2022 Reviews Michel Hazanavicius’ meta zombie flick Final Cut (Coupez!), a French-language remake of Shin'ichirō Ueda’s 2017 cult film, One Cut of the Dead, opens this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Set in a disused...
Bergman Island – Cannes 2021 Review Alysha Prasad July 18, 2021 Reviews Mia Hansen-Løve’s newest film, Bergman Island, stars Vicky Krieps and Tim Roth as filmmakers Chris and Tony who have retreated to the island of Fårö for the summer. They travel to the island, known for...
Are You Lonesome Tonight? – Cannes 2021 Review Jack Cameron July 16, 2021 Reviews The most visceral aspect of Are You Lonesome Tonight? is its mesmeric use of colour and light. The screen is frequently flooded with bright reds and greens, or entirely washed out under an overbearing...
The Divide – Cannes 2021 Review Alysha Prasad July 16, 2021 Reviews Catherine Corsini’s The Divide (La Fracture) stars Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Marina Foïs as Raf and Julie, two women on the verge of a breakup, stuck in a hospital on the night of a major demonstration of...
Returning to Reims – Cannes 2021 Review Lydia Rostant July 15, 2021 Reviews Depicting the complex fabric of society is never an easy task. In his latest film Returning to Reims, filmmaker Jean-Gabriel Périot attempts to coalesce over 80 years of history to tell the story of...
Compartment No. 6 – Cannes 2021 Review Alysha Prasad July 14, 2021 Reviews Adapted from the novel of the same name by Rosa Liksom comes Juho Kuosmanen’s Compartment No. 6 (Hytti nro 6), a film that takes place mostly within the confines of a Russian train. Young Finnish student...
Benedetta – Cannes 2021 Review Alysha Prasad July 12, 2021 Reviews Based on the non-fiction book Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy by Judith C. Brown is Paul Verhoeven’s newest erotic, blasphemous, and extremely camp film, Benedetta. In...