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May 14, 2018 — A fable, a social critique, and a frontrunner for the top prize.
May 14, 2018 — In the singular world of Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki, auteurist homage and social consciousness are joined by some of the most lovingly filmed dogs in contemporary cinema.
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May 14, 2018 — A mystery, a road movie, and a tribute to the late Abbas Kiarostami.
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May 14, 2018 — Few critics come to the defense of this story of an all-female Kurdish combat unit.
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May 13, 2018 — Critics may differ on Jia’s sprawling gangster movie, but all agree that Zhao Tao is outstanding.
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May 12, 2018 — The five-part essay film is “infused in equal measures by despair and aspiration.”
May 10, 2018 — What goes into staging the perfect on-screen kiss? Director Sofia Coppola and actors Kirsten Dunst and Josh Hartnett look back on shooting a passionate make-out session in The Virgin Suicides.
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May 10, 2018 — The followup to Mrs. Fang is an oral history of China’s “Anti-Rightist Campaign” in the late 1950s.
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May 10, 2018 — The director of Ida returns with the story of an intense love affair.
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May 9, 2018 — The first film from Kenya in Cannes’s Official Selection has already been banned at home.