Sight & Sound articles

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  Cannes 2012: Still dreaming wild things – Bernard Bertolucci goes underground

  Geoff Andrew sees the veteran master make his long-awaited return with a modest, subterranean two-hander.

  Geoff Andrew
  23 May 2012

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  Cannes 2012: Cinema-chewing: Leos Carax’s Holy Motors

  Demetrios Matheou wonders at the French former wunderkind’s madly eclectic meta-movie – and, less happily, at a directorial feature debut from actress Sandrine Bonnaire.

  Demetrios Matheou
  23 May 2012

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  Cannes 2012: Last works and wakes – Alain Resnais in the underworld

  Amy Taubin hopes death succeeds patriarchy as the flavour of this year’s festival.

  Amy Taubin
  22 May 2012

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  Cannes 2012: Mortal mischief – Raúl Ruiz’s La Noche de Enfrente

  Jonathan Romney on the late Chilean master’s fond farewell to a life of artistic delinquency.

  Jonathan Romney
  21 May 2012

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  Cannes 2012: Love by Michael Haneke

  Nick James checks his notes: the festival’s most tender as well as telling film so far comes from the Austrian disciplinarian.

  Nick James
  21 May 2012

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  Cannes 2012: Nuns on the verge of a nervous breakdown – Cristian Mungiu’s Beyond the Hills

  Geoff Andrew on the Palme d’Or alumnus’s return to the Competition.

  Geoff Andrew
  20 May 2012

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  Cannes 2012: Sex on tap – Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise: Love

  The Austrian director’s sex-tourism drama could be his richest film yet, says Pamela Jahn.

  Pamela Jahn
  20 May 2012

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  Cannes 2012: ‘No’ for a lighter, nicer Chile

  Demetrios Matheou sees Pablo Larraín close out his trilogy about Chile’s years of dictatorship with wit and verve.

  Demetrios Matheou
  19 May 2012

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  Cannes 2012: The wrong earlobes – The Imposter

  Tom Charity on a smart doc fresh from Toronto’s HotDocs and Sundance – and Bernard Rose revisit Tolstoy in Hollywood.

  Tom Charity
  19 May 2012

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  Cannes 2012: Crime and punishment in Kazakhstan

  With the festival’s slow start continuing, Geoff Andrew singles out a quietly resonant new riff on Dostoevsky in the festival’s Un Certain Regard sidebar.

  Geoff Andrew
  18 May 2012

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