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‘Emilia Pérez’ Is the Sensation of Cannes So Far: Can Jacques Audiard’s Queer Musical Win the Palme d’Or?
Cannes: "Emilia Pérez" is the buzziest competition premiere yet, with audiences and press going wild for the French filmmaker's story of a trans Mexican woman's liberation.
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UFO Nabs French Distribution for Directors’ Fortnight Player ‘Gazer’ (EXCLUSIVE)
French distribution company UFO has secured the rights to American filmmaker Ryan J. Sloan’s New psychological thriller “Gazer,” which will world premiere at this year’s Directors’ Fortnight on May 22. Set in New Jersey and starring Sloan’s partner Ariella Mastroianni, “Gazer” is the story of a young mother with a rare degenerative brain condition called …
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‘Rumours’ Review: Cate Blanchett and Alicia Vikander Play Clueless World Leaders in Guy Maddin’s Very Funny, Truly Silly Dark Comedy
Canadian directors Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson satirize the ineffectual meagerness of global summits and draft resolutions in their Cannes-premiering romp.
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Box Office: John Krasinski’s ‘IF’ Debuts at No. 1 With Soft $35 Million
Not exactly the opening weekend that dreams are made of. Director John Krasinski’s “IF,” a fantasy-comedy that promises your imaginary friends from childhood are real, fell slightly short of box office expectations with $35 million. Heading into the weekend, “IF” was expected to bring in at least $40 million in its first weekend of release. …
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Box Office: John Krasinski’s Ryan Reynolds ‘IF’ Improves to $35M Opening for No. 1 Finish
Paramount and and writer-director John Krasinski‘s are breathing a sigh of relief after the movie’s opening improved to a $35 domestic million opening thanks to a strong family turnout on Saturdey. Still, the live-action/CGI hybrid film — starring Ryan Reynolds and featuring an A-list voice cast — came in behind tracking’s projected $40 domestic opening. …
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‘The Substance’ Director Coralie Fargeat on How Her Feminist Body Horror Film With Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley Mirrors #MeToo: ‘We Need a Bigger Revolution’
With only her second film, Coralie Fargeat has gone from admiring body horror king David Cronenberg to being in competition with him at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Fargeat’s “The Substance,” described as a feminist take on the body horror genre and starring Margaret Qualley and Demi Moore, bows at Cannes on Sunday night, the …
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‘Limonov: The Ballad’ Review: Ben Whishaw Stars in a Portrait of a Radical That Is All Swagger and No Game
That the name Limonov is pronounced Lee-MWAH-nov is one of two main things that Kirill Serebrennikov’s “Limonov: The Ballad” teaches us about Eduard Limonov, the Russian radical, poet, dissident, emigré, returnee, detainee, bête noire and cause célèbre who in 1993 co-founded the ultra-nationalist National Bolshevik Party. The second is that, as imagined in this adaptation …
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