It was startling because the movie, though one of the best-received in the competition, had not been widely tipped for the top prize, which seldom goes to a U. Reading from prepared remarks, Baker singled out two other filmmakers in the competition, Francis Ford Coppola and David Cronenberg , as among his personal heroes. I was fortunate to see all twenty-two films in the Cannes competition on the big screen, projected under superior conditions in houses packed with fellow movie lovers.
I have ranked the movies in order of preference, from best to worst. Here they are:. But its true fascination lies in the humid atmosphere and wanderlust-inspiring splendor of its East and Southeast Asian locations, ranging from Singapore and Bangkok to Shanghai and Rangoon.
Shot entirely in secret, the story follows a Tehran-based husband Missagh Zareh and wife Soheila Golestani who are increasingly at war with their progressive-minded young-adult daughters Mahsa Rostami, Setareh Maleki during nationwide political protests led by women. The result is a thriller of propulsive skill and blunt emotional force, marrying the muscularity of an action film to the psychological intensity of a chamber drama.
A forthcoming Neon release. Sympathetic or sadistic? Feminist or misogynist? A forthcoming Netflix release. Set in Copenhagen immediately after the First World War, it pins us so mercilessly to the hard-bitten perspective of Karoline an excellent Vic Carmen Sonne , a factory seamstress who becomes pregnant out of wedlock, that we scarcely notice her story shifting in a different, more sinister direction.
A Searchlight Pictures release, opening June 21st in theatres. Arnold is certainly skilled at integrating recognizable actors, which in this case includes Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski, into her grottily realist frames, and she has an appealing lead performer in Nykiya Adams, as a twelve-year-old girl who overcomes persistent abuse and neglect. Why make a film about Eduard Limonov, the globe-trotting Russian dissident poet and punk provocateur reviled for his pro-fascist sympathies?
