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Cannes Film Festival 2012: Mekong Hotel | Review
After his Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives‘ success in Cannes two years ago, Thai New-Wave director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s name is gradually starting to be typed rather than...
View ArticleCannes Film Festival 2012: Laurence Anyways | Review
Opening with the powerful base of If I Had A Heart by Fever Ray, Laurence Anyways hits Un Certain Regard section of Cannes with the statement that by now, 23-year-old ambitious and eccentric French...
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Cannes Film Festival 2012: Jagten (The Hunt) | Review
Thomas Vinterberg, once a prophet of Dogme 95 with the tremendous success of The Celebration that took Cannes by storm in 1998, comes back with an equal force presenting his much anticipated and highly...
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Mekong Hotel: Interview with Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Why was it important for you to get back to the area where you shot Uncle Boonmee? Apichatpong Weerasethakul: It is my home; this is where I grew up. Although I didn’t know much about the area’s...
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Cannes Film Festival 2012: Elefante Blanco (White Elephant) | Review
Argentinian director, writer and producer Pablo Trapero’s new full-feature, Elefante Blanco, depicting the hardships of over 30,000 residents of “Villa Virgin”, a shantytown in the slums of Buenos...
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Cannes Film Festival 2012: După Dealuri (Beyond the Hills) | Review
After the promising debut with Occident in Cannes Director’s Fortnight in 2002, and receiving the Golden Palm award for his film 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days in 2007, the bar of expectations for the...
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Cannes Film Festival 2012: Da-reun na-ra-e-suh (In Another Country) | Review
Hong Sang-soo, one of the most established auteur’s in contemporary Korean cinema, began his career with an astounding debut of The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well in 1996. Twelve films later, he brings...
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Cannes Film Festival 2012: 7 Days in Havana | Review
Continuing the tradition of Tokyo! (2008), New York, I Love You (2009) and its original predecessor Paris, je t’aime (2006), this film is a compilation of seven daily snapshots of contemporary Havana...
View ArticleCannes Film Festival 2012 ends with Amour (Love)
As the Cannes Film Festival 2012 wrapped up for the year, Sunday showed some of the most prestigious awards being handed out. Austrian director, Michael Haneke, won the Cannes Film Festival’s top...
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Cannes Film Festival 2012: Like Someone in Love | Review
After two previous nominations for Palme d’Or for Ten in 2002 and Certified Copy in 2010, Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami returns to Cannes Competition with another pseudo-simplistically...
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