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REPORT festival de cannes : Aleksandar Radivojevic of ‘A Serbian Film’: it’s catharsis more than ‘torture porn’

Aleksandar Radivojevic of ‘A Serbian Film’: it’s catharsis more than ‘torture porn’

In Belgrade artistic culture and creativity seem to be menaced by the muzzle of conformism and the dictatorship of political correctness. Many believe that Serbia’s entry into the 27-nation European union could make the situation worse. We meet the co-writer of a controversial 2010 horror film, which he says is the perfect 'plastic metaphor' onscreen of the indignant cry of an art which wants to break free

by Federico Iarlori @ // 15/03/11

festival de cannes, orient express, belgrade, violence, serbia, culture calendar, film festival

OPINION festival de cannes : Cinema review: Danish documentary Armadillo

Cinema review: Danish documentary Armadillo

To make this documentary, Danish director Janus Metz Pedersen spent three and a half months at the allied camp on the front lines of southern Afghanistan. There's a tenuous division between fiction and reality in a film which finds the cruel violence of the fighters unbelievable

by Cannes Critique @ // 13/07/10

festival de cannes, european journalism, denmark, journalism, war, film review, video

PANORAMA festival de cannes : No English or eastern flicks at the 61st Cannes Film Festival

No English or eastern flicks at the 61st Cannes Film Festival

The absence of eastern European titles is the main story at Cannes from 14 – 25 May, amidst well- known western names including the Dardenne brothers, Wim Wenders and Italians Sorrentino and Garrone

by Maria Colucci @ // 15/05/08

festival de cannes, film, cannes, george soros , roberto saviano, laurent cantet, jean-pierre e luc dardenne

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Antichrist get’s booed at Cannes, what an honour Lars von Trier!

We are leaving the cinema completely ravished. This is madness, bare horror and yet nothing surreal: a couple is doing its psychoanalysis in the woods – the thing to avoid!   Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe (I didn’t pay attention to their character names and actually it has no importance as ...

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Audiard’s “Prophet” delivers first Cannes frenzy

Seeing a carotid being cut with a razor blade at 8h30 in the morning is a rather painful breakfast. The two and a half hours that follow this scene are not easier to digest, but French director Jacques Audiard has brought to Cannes a mafia masterpiece which is thrilling and ...

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Mariah Carey and Lenny Kravitz: dancing in the rain

It is crisis and you feel it also in Cannes: beer instead of champaign and peanuts replace the caviar, festival goers had been used to in previous years. Everybody has something to complain about. Restaurants lack reservations, hotels are not fully booked and now it has even started to rain ...

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