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May 16, 2018 — Joachim Trier’s jury goes for a satire about a Portuguese soccer star.
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May 14, 2018 — A favorite at Cannes, the Spanish director returns with one of his best features yet.
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May 12, 2018 — The five-part essay film is “infused in equal measures by despair and aspiration.”
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May 12, 2018 — The nineties-era love story returns the French director to critical favor.
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 underground scene of Leningrad in the early 80s is the real star here.
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May 9, 2018 — The first film from Kenya in Cannes’s Official Selection has already been banned at home.
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May 9, 2018 — Cannes’s Opening Night film is met with a first round of lukewarm reviews.
Production Notes
May 9, 2018 — 1. Born Arutin Sayadyan, eighteenth-century Armenian poet Sayat-Nova—whose pen name means “King of Songs”—served as the initial inspiration for The Color of Pomegranates. Sayat-Nova was an ashugh, a troubadour whose verses were set to music that he played on a...