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  A Critical Snapshot in 10 Reviews or Less

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  A look at the state of current cinema as curated by CannesFrom: www.time.com
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  Cannes: Mercredi, 21 Mai

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  The day of the “Chevolution” - and I am going to totally black out now. No reviews of ”Che” will be read by me, nor will I listen to its “buzz” - or, at least, I will try as best as I can. Besides the Che films, La Mujer Sin Cabeza, Surveillance, O’ Horten and A Festa Da Menina Morta will be screened. But I bet all the buzz will be for “Che,” I mean, why wouldn’t it be? In Competition: “Che” by Steven Soderbergh I am not scanning reviews of this, sorry. But I still feel that I should give some links as to where you can find the reviews for yourself. Jeff Wells’ review, James Rocchi’s review, Todd McCarthy’s review.   “La Mujer Sin Cabeza” by Lucrecia Martel Lee Marshall, “Lucrecia Martel asks way too much of the viewer in her third feature, a dour tale of moral and social paralysis centring on a hit-and-run incident in an Argentinian rural backwater and its effects on the woman at the wheel…The result is a ‘plotless film’ that, in its Cannes press screening, prompted walkouts and boos, although many still maintain that the film’s advanced symbolic and narrative sudoku is worth puzzling out.” Ty Burr, “It’s a minor but effective Blow-Up about an upper-class Argentine woman (Maria Onetto) whose life becomes unmoored after she possibly kills a young boy while driving on a country road…Onetto’s quite special as bourgeoisette who drifts into and then out of a state of heightened clarity, and you can feel the anger burning away under the movie’s cool glass surface. Perhaps Martel should have let more of it erupt onto the screen.” Glenn Kenny, “It’s an oblique way of reflecting on contemporary class relations, but it’s apt, and in point of fact this is one of the few films in the largely-socially-conscious Competition that reflects on class relations as such.” Peter Brunette, “She is also a master of visual and aural technique, which is on full and splendid display in La Mujer Sin Cabeza (The Headless Woman), her third feature. The problem is that, as with La Cienaga and La Nina Santa, her narratives can be maddeningly slight, causing the viewer to struggle to comprehend even basic character relationships or motivations. It’s difficult to invest much emotion if you have little idea who’s who.” Out of Competition: “Surveillance” by Jennifer Lynch Richard Corliss, “Think Rashomon meets The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in Twin Peaks, and give lots of leeway for the gooniest improv overacting, and you may get on the warped wavelength of this semi-comic parable of social anarchy.” Ray Bennett, “With a high splatter quotient and many scenes of deviant humiliation, the film will have its fans even if the eventual twist hardly comes as a surprise and probably isn’t meant to,” Allan Hunter, “Fifteen years after the career-killing debacle of Boxing Helena, Jennifer Lynch dares to raise her head above the parapet once more,” Un Certain Regard: “O’Horten” by Bent Hamer Alissa Simon, “Although the bittersweet, episodic tale of an ultra-dedicated locomotive engineer uneasily transitioning into retirement lacks the fully developed characters and tightly constructed narrative of his more poignant and substantial Kitchen Stories, it nevertheless provides a warm and gently humorous divertissement that should be appreciated by niche arthouse auds worldwide,” Mike Goodridge, “Bent Hamer’s unique blend of absurdist humour and aching melancholy has never worked better than in O’ Horten,” Updates to Follow
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  A Critical Snapshot in 10 Reviews or Less - TIME

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  Google Inc. A Critical Snapshot in 10 Reviews or LessTIME - 52 minutes agoThose randy days are long gone, and this year the only erotic hoo-hah was for this intimate German drama about, to get right to the point, naked old people … Read the rest of this great post here

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