Cannes 2015: ‘Love’ and ‘Youth’ Amp Up the Sex at the Festival
Both Gaspar Noé's Love and Paulo Sorrentino's Youth explore sexual desire, but they take very different approaches.
Elena Razlogova
Cannes 2015: ‘Dheepan’ and ‘The Lobster’ Depict Different Kinds of War
Two movies screening in competition at Cannes, Dheepan and The Lobster, consider very different sorts of war, between hardcore gangs and between life aspirations.
Cannes 2015: Women Resist Their Masters in ‘Sicario’ and ‘The Assassin’
Both Sicario and The Assassin tell the stories of women embroiled in conflict: in the former, the drug war; in the latter, the courts of ninth-century China.
Cannes 2015: ‘La Loi de Marche’ and ‘An’
Two films at the Cannes Film Festival consider work; work as a means to an end, and work as a need for social connection.
Cannes 2015: ‘Carol’ and ‘Nahid’ Reveal the Costs of Repression
Two dramas at Cannes 2015, one by Todd Haynes and the other by Ida Panahandeh, depict the costs of repression and loss of privacy for women under patriarchal codes.
Cannes 2015: ‘La Tête Haute’ Is a Rosy View of France’s Juvenile Courts
Long takes of Malony gazing at harvested wheat fields and planted trees surrounding his rural rehab center -- a traditional, idyllic, cultivated French countryside -- suggest order and peace.