Marcelo Caetano’s Baby might combine reliable and clichéd tropes, but Caetano’s sex work study succeeds thanks to its keen observation of queer communities.
Baby Works His Way Out of a Corner
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Sean Baker Does It Again with Anora
Sean Baker continues his deeply humanist exploration of sex workers’ complex inner lives with the touching and charming Russian-American fairytale Anora.
Oh No, Canada
Paul Schrader’s latest Oh, Canada is a self-reflexive work that fails to combine its various threads into a satisfying treatise on life’s regrets.
The Substance Has Never Met a Real Woman
Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance boasts impressive technical sound design and monster work but suffers from a lack of compelling female characters.
The Other Way Around Is Repetitive. Meaningful. Beautiful. Repetitive.
There is beauty and meaning littered throughout the repetitive actions of Jonás Trueba’s endlessly playful Directors’ Fortnight romcom The Other Way Around.
Block Pass. A Tyred Vintage.
Antoine Chevrollier’s Block Pass captures its working-class milieu well but suffers due to its tired secondhand framing of queer suffering.
The Empty Pageantry of Savanna and the Mountain
A group of villagers stage a series of increasingly bizarre protests against the development of a lithium mine in the unengaging Savanna and the Mountain.
Megalopolis Invites You To The Future Of Cinema
Francis Ford Coppola’s long-awaited, soon-to-be-endlessly-debated, epic Megalopolis asks you to consider the power of art to change the course of time.
Holy Cow. Curdled Maturity.
Love and cheese freely intermingle in Louise Courvoisier’s diverting yet underwhelming debut Holy Cow, (somehow) playing in Un Certain Regard.
(Don’t) Believe The Hyperboreans
Disturbing and entertaining in equal measure, Cristobal León and Joaquín Cociña’s wildly inventive metafiction The Hyperboreans is a standout work from Cannes.