Angela Schnalec’s DOP travels to Cambodia for an intellectually rigorous, if slightly tedious docufiction about the rich-poor divide.
Promised Spaces. Liminal Traces.
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Simple Plans Are Never Simple
A simple plan goes fiendishly out of hand in Dying Twice, Living Thrice, Karim Lakzadeh’s existential critique of modern day Iran.
What Remains from Cannes 2025?
Jafar Panahi’s Un Simple Accident Palme characterises a Cannes line-up that will be better known for its political potential than its aesthetic content.
Drifting Laurent. Mirth Behind the Melancholy.
French dramedy Drifting Laurent is a slow and seemingly aimless film that provides oodles of charm in its depiction of an mid-season alpine resort.
L’Aventura Travels Free from the Anxiety of Influence
The very definition of a hangout movie, ACID opener L’Aventura explores the quotidian moments that most contemporary cinema often breezes by.
ACID Cannes 2023 — Searching For Happiness
The Cannes ACID section focusses on normal lives in independent films, celebrating perspectives often overlooked in bigger programmes.