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PALMISTRY : Cannes 2012 : betting / reviews index

added link to Hollywood Reporter VILLEGAS review; Palme odds — Kiarostami 5/2 favourite

May 24th, 2012 more >
for Tribune: Gareth Huw Evans’ THE RAID [6/10]

perhaps the most egregious example of the ‘after you, Claude’ school of movie-ruckus clichés

May 16th, 2012 more >
for ‘Tribune’: CAFE DE FLORE [3/10]; FAUST [6+/10]

While we’re evidently in a Brueghel-esque netherworld of paranormal forces and supernatural critters – shot in olde-worlde tones of honey-lustrous sepia by cinematographer Benoit Delbonnel -the script is near-impenetrably opaque in terms of theology, all the way up to its disorientingly abrupt climax shot amid the geyser-spouting, rubble-strewn landscape of Iceland (perhaps hell, or maybe Faust is simply “out of it”.)

May 10th, 2012 more >
for TRIBUNE: Ben Rivers’ TWO YEARS AT SEA [6+/10]

“It’s essentially a documentary – ruminative, slow-moving, attuned to the “bygone” rhythms of Williams and his unpopulated environment. But it’s not by any means simply a straight “document” of Williams’ world – unless it’s the norm in that world for caravan-trailers to float up into the branches of tall trees.”

May 3rd, 2012 more >
for ‘Tribune’ : AV Festival report

‘Nightfall’, like much of Benning’s work, is unapologetically demanding – someone stumbling unawares into the Tyneside that March afternoon might well have been baffled and bemused by what they discovered, and it takes a certain adjustment to Benning’s approach before ‘emperor’s new clothes’ qualms entirely subside.

April 12th, 2012 more >