After winning the Un certain regard award for Force Majeure in 2014, then winning the Palme d’Or for Square in 2017, Swedish cinematographic mastermind Ruben Östlund returned to Cannes this year for more with The Triangle of Sadness. And indeed, as things currently stand with the films at the 75th festival edition, he could really take home another win. The Triangle of […]
George Miller doesn’t make movies often, but when he makes them they’re living craze months in advance. This time, the teaser, which lasts only ten seconds, was enough to interest his fanbase and general cinephile audience and make them look forward to the Cannes Film Festival and the world premiere of Three Thousand Years of Longing. With Tilda […]
In the last ten years, almost all significant films and franchises from the 80s have experienced a diabolical return to life through a series of remakes, reboots, and sequel films, often so bad and unattractive that it is best to forget that they were made. The popularity of reviving the buried bones of pop culture […]
75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival opened this Tuesday with CoupeZ! the latest zombie-slasher-goes-high-concept-comedy by Michael Hazanavicius, the remake of One Cut of the Dead, a 2017 Japanese student film by Shin’ichirō Ueda which itself is an adaptation of the play Ghost in the Box. It might sound like a complete pretentious disaster at the first sight. Some might […]
On the last day of the competition program of the 72nd edition of the Berlinale Film Festival, the audience had the opportunity to see the films Alcarràs by Carla Simón, Leonora addio by Paolo Taviani and The Novelist’s Film by Hong Sangsoo. Now that the official competition is over and awards have been given out (read about it here) it’s the right time, to sum […]
Day 6 of the 72nd Berlinale film festival in the main competition programme brought us two new films dealing with the trauma Drill Water by Michael Koch and One Year One Night by Isaki Lacuesta. Still, the highlight of the day for the Duart team here at Berlinale definitely was the film “Working Class Heroes” by Serbian director Miloš Pušić. Director Pušić brings a story of a […]
Berlinale did its best to bring Valentine’s day to its audience this year. Yesterday the festival guests had the chance to attend the world premieres of three new competition programme films that embodied different types of love. The day started a bit slow with AEIOU– A Quick Alphabet of Love by Nicolette Krebitz, a love of stark contrasts, of […]
Yesterday, Sunday, February 13th, audiences and guests of Berlinale had the opportunity to attend the world premiere of two new competition programme films: Call Jane by Phyllis Nagy and Return to Dust by Li Ruijun. Yet it wasn’t as quiet a day as it might seem by the film premieres as well as accompanying events. The first noticeable sign of “a change” […]
Yesterday was a quite busy day for cineasts and cinephiles in Berlin, with 4 new competition feature films getting their world premieres. Still, it somehow felt like it wasn’t a nurture full selection, at least when it comes to the “big names”. Rithy Panh with his latest film Everything Will Be OK came to a point of the essay […]
The 72nd edition of Berlinale truly feels empty. As the second day of the festival is behind us, it becomes obvious how much we all miss and need the full scope of festivals we had pre-covid. Sure, the Berlinale team managed to create a “COVID save” event that works and doesn’t drain the energy or […]