All the reviews of the European movies screened during the 65th Cannes Film Festival...
Cannes 2012 daily reviews
Cineuropa is back on the Croisette with a strong presence. Our team will cover european presence in all competitions with film reviews and interviews. We also keep an eye on the market and will relay #Cannes2012 Twitter quotes below...
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#Cannes2012 Here we come http://pic.twitter.com/hNFstBIOcineuropa.org
Un Certain Regard awards Michel Franco, Emilie Dequenne, Suzanne Clément, Aida Begic, Benoît Delepine & Gustave Kervern http://cineuropa.org/2011/nw.aspx?t=newsdetail&did=221681cineuropa.org
Tous les lauréats UN CERTAIN REGARD / All the UN CERTAIN REGARD winners http://pic.twitter.com/OBw1ushNFestival de Cannes
RENOIR
Gilles Bourdos (Un Certain Regard)
Father, son, and muse
Art and love in 1915, when a young woman meets painter Auguste Renoir towards the end of his life, and his son, future great filmmaker Jean.. Read review
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FINAL CUT - LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
Gyorgy Palfi (Cannes Classics)
Love, Cinema and Final Cut
György Pálfi presents the closing film in Cannes Classics : Final Cut – Ladies and Gentlemen. A collage film made with the most beautiful love scenes in cinema... Read Review
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DAY 10 - Cosmopolitan Fumes
COSMOPOLIS
David Cronenberg (Official Competition)
Capitalism’s apocalypse
An obscure, hypnotic tale about the financial crisis and the end of a world in chaos...
Sergei Loznitsa: "In the film I show that a man can't do everything" #Cannes2012 http://pic.twitter.com/D70Lrel7Festival de Cannes
CAMILLE REWINDS (CAMILLE REDOUBLE)
Noémie Lvovsky (Directors' Fortnight)
Camille rewinds into the brillant 1980's
The Directors’ Fortnight closed with Camille Rewinds, a tender and very funny film that catapults its delighted audience into the fluorescent, old school, basically brilliant, world of the 1980s...
Carlos Reygadas : "La vie est un peu transformée dans ce film" / "Life is a little transformed in this film" http://pic.twitter.com/gG1hewVFFestival de Cannes
THREE WORLDS (TROIS MONDES)
Catherine Corsini (Un Certain Regard)
A very heavy secret
A hard-hitting film noir about guilt and a spiral of lies against a backdrop of a corrupt society...
Brazilian director Walter Salles has adapted no less than a landmark in counterculture literature for his latest road movie, in the vein of his previous film Motorcycle Diaries...
Walter Salles : "Nous avons cherché à travailler dans un esprit d’improvisation permanente" http://pic.twitter.com/NXWBH3FiFestival de Cannes
SOFIA'S LAST AMBULANCE
Ilian Metev (Critics Week)
An uncompromising view
Bulgarian director Ilian Metev’s documentary feature debut follows a three-person medical team as it goes taking care of emergencies around Bulgaria’s capital over a 48-hour shift...
Leos Carax: "Le cinéma est comme une île, une belle île, avec un grand cimetière." #Cannes2012 http://pic.twitter.com/e366dRxjFestival de Cannes
7 DAYS IN HAVANA
Benicio Del Toro, Pablo Trapero, Julio Medem, Elia Suleiman, Gaspar Noé, Juan Carlos Tabio, and Laurent Cantet
(Un Certain Regard)
Another week would have been nice
Seven directors with seven different points of view each spend a day in the Cuban capital to take us on an initiatory journey that gives off a great air of unison...
Abbas Kiarostami: "Mon film ne commence pas et ne se termine pas" http://pic.twitter.com/iQ12TvQ3Festival de Cannes
HOLD BACK (RENGAINE)
Rachid Djaïdani (Directors' Fortnight)
Same ol' song, brotha!
This debut from bestselling French novelist is an impressive take that mixes comedy and dramedy in a low budget feature that was shot in the course of 9 years...
Bosnian director Aida Begic is back with a second feature about modern day Sarajevo as experienced by a part of the population busy with reconstructing their lives after the war...
Thomas Vinterberg : « Avec internet, le monde est devenu un petit village où foisonnent les rumeurs. » http://pic.twitter.com/4QrjPt7VFestival de Cannes
GRANNY'S FUNERAL (ADIEU BERTHE)
Bruno Podalydès (Directors' Fortnight)
On hesitating and lessons from the grave
Bruno Podalydès has made a farcical, inventive film featuring his brilliant brother Denis in a role reminiscent of Jacques Tati...
Belgian director David Lambert has made a sensitive first film about love, absence, and the disenchanted reunion of an endearing couple of actors. Selected for the Critics' Week in Cannes...
The Cannes Film Festival turns 65 this year and Festival President Gilles Jacob has been hard at work on a unique birthday gift... Read review
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DAY 4 - Gods & Monsters
BEYOND THE HILLS (DUPA DEALURI)
Cristian Mungiu (Official Competition)
Mungiu's prayer carries Beyond the Hills
After his Palme d'Or in 2007, Romanian film director Cristian Mungiu has made a demanding film that is a powerful cry against the harmfulness of ignorance. Read review
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Cristian Mungiu : "J’essaie de faire un autre type de cinéma" / "I try to make a different kind of cinema" #cannes2012 http://pic.twitter.com/y7eTof5oFestival de Cannes
DRACULA 3D
Dario Argento (Midnight Screening - Out of Competition)
An anti-twilight take on Bram Stoker classic novel by the Italian master of horror...
Merzak Allouache returns with a thriller set at the heart of Algeria's recent murderous past... Read review
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GOD'S NEIGHBORS (LES VOISINS DE DIEU)
Meni Yaesh (Critics Week)
Meni Yaesh's film follows three young men who take it upon themselves to police their Bat Yam neighborhood for transgressions against the letter of religious laws... Read review
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DAY 3 - Escaping Reality
PARADISE: LOVE (PARADIES: LIEBE)
Ulrich Seidl (Official Competition)
Who is black and who is white?
Austrian film director Ulrich Seidl returns to the Cannes official competition with a story about sex tourism, five years after his radical film Import/Export...
Matteo Garrone : « Le grand pari de ce film est de trouver le lien entre rêve et réalité » #Cannes2012 http://pic.twitter.com/7R29pZPYFestival de Cannes
ALYAH
Elie Wajeman (Directors' Fortnight)
Next year in Israel
FEMIS graduate Elie Wajeman has made a bittersweet first feature about a Parisian drug dealer's Jewish reinvention...
For his first feature, experienced actor Louis-Do de Lencquesaing (48 years old) takes the well-trodden path of a quest for identity through sentimental events (or ordeals)... Read the review
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DAY 2 - Sand, Bones & Broken Memories
BROKEN
Rufus Norris (Critics Week)
A patchwork journey into the circle of life
An inventive and very promising first feature by Britain’s Rufus Norris, which mixes comedy and drama with amazing virtuosity...
Jacques Audiard: "Le film raconte des personnages en temps de crise" #Cannes2012 http://pic.twitter.com/bDDr77uwFestival de Cannes
AFTER THE BATTLE (BAAD EL MAWKEAA)
Yousry Nasrallah (Official Competition)
If Tahrir were told After the Battle
Egyptian filmmaker Yousry Nasrallah is back in Cannes with a fiction - the first real fiction since the beginning of the Arab Spring - about his country's revolution...
Press Conference of the Jury Nanni Moretti: "I am one of nine, and only a sort of head of the class. What is important is to see all the films with the same attention and same respect."
What an honour to be amongst this group. Here we are doing our press conference. 1st movie tonight. Wes Anderson. http://pic.twitter.com/PT0iIoGGEwan McGregor
Bérénice Bejo and the team of “Moonrise Kingdom” declared the 65th Festival de Cannes open! #Cannes2012 http://pic.twitter.com/uUJnlNPnFestival de Cannes