Festival de Cannes 2025 | Basic elements of Petzoldianism
Christian Petzold’s Mirros No. 3, which premiered at Cannes’ Directors Fortnight side section, we get a sense that this is a Petzoldian film
Continue ReadingCannes Competition Films: A Full Round Review
Mo Abdi about the Cannes Competition Films: A Full Round Review. Festival de Cannes 2025 UniversalCinema Mag last dispatch
Continue ReadingPolitics, Art, and the Palme d’Or: Reflections on Cannes and Jafar Panahi’s Victory
awarding of the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival to Jafar Panahi’s A Simple Accident has stirred both celebration and controversy
Continue ReadingFestival de Cannes 2025 | “Sentimental Value”: Woman, Acting, and Cinema
Sentimental Value, directed by the acclaimed Norwegian-Danish filmmaker Joachim Trier, dazzled audiences at the Cannes Film Festival
Continue ReadingFestival de Cannes 2025 | Militantropos Now but Not Always
Militantropos had its World Premiere at Cannes as part of the Directors’ Fortnight (Quinzaine des cinéastes) program
Continue ReadingFestival de Cannes 2025 | Caravan – A Road Trip of Growth
They return in Un Certain Regard with director Zuzana Kirchnerová’s film, Caravan, about a road trip a mother
Continue ReadingFestival de Cannes 2025 | From Rage to Forgiveness: A Human Drama Trapped in Design
In Woman and Child, Saeed Roustaee presents an unflinching and, at times, deeply unsettling portrait of a woman trapped in a structure
Continue ReadingFestival de Cannes 2025 | Panahi’s triumphant return
Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident masterly turns the camera on his own side of politics, not a surprise move for a filmmaker
Continue ReadingFestival de Cannes 2025 | Rural Horror: A Review of Her Will Be Done
Premiering at Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, Julia Kowalski’s Her Will Be Done (Que ma volonté soit faite) tells the story of Naw
Continue ReadingFestival de Cannes 2025 | Alpha: The Sterilized Body of a False Catastrophe
The main problem with Alpha is that it pretends to be about pain, illness, and mourning, but everything remains on the surface
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