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Cannes Dispatch: Shapes of Things
New films by Todd Haynes, Rodrigo Moreno, Joanna Arnow, and Justine Triet uncover new rhythms in timeless genres.
Festival Focus: Cannes Film Festival
Stories
Introduction: THE POTEMKINISTS
"The short film is a comedy about the layers of history—or, better put, about misunderstandings coming from our relationship with history."
Cannes: MUBI Takes THE SETTLERS for North America, Multiple International Territories The Hollywood Reporter
Cannes Dispatch: The Tensions at Play
New films by Wim Wenders and Steve McQueen, a daring restoration premiere, the first documentaries in competition since 2008, and more.
Cannes Dispatch: The Obscenity of Evil
New films by Glazer, Williams, Alonso, and Scorsese offer bold answers to a timeless question: how does one film unspeakable evil?
Close and Personal: Melodrama and Male Friendship in CLOSE and THE EIGHT MOUNTAINS
When it comes to depictions of male grief and suffering in Close and The Eight Mountains, what is it about sentimentality that pains us so?
Lists
Brief Encounters 42 films
New short films by some of the best up-and-coming as well as established filmmakers and artists.
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Luminaries 49 films
New films from established masters of cinema.
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Pride Unprejudiced: LGBTQ+ Cinema 211 films
Stepping out of the celluloid closet, LGBTQ+ representations in cinema have become increasingly robust, diverse, and multidimensional. From intimate character…
Viewfinder 37 films
A globetrotting survey of bold storytelling and essential perspectives on the world.
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Rediscovered 37 films
Exclusive restorations and revivals of classic, under-known, and once-lost films.
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Debuts 47 films
A celebration of first features that hail the arrival of exciting directors.
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Liked lists
Franz Rogowski: The Man of the Hour
MUBI US 5 films
In The Mood for SENSUAL CINEMA: An Expanded List
IsabelSandoval 292 films
Top 10 - 2021
Robbie Griffey 10 films
Best of 2021
MUBI UK 29 films
Best of 2021
MUBI US 25 films
Sight and Sound 50 best films of 2021
British Film Institute 50 films
Recent reviews
The winner of Cannes’s Un Certain Regard award in 2021 is the visceral story of a young woman’s struggle to free herself from the grip of her father—and the patriarchy with it. With the intensity of a thriller, this stirring feminist portrait announces a tremendous talent in director Kira Kovalenko.
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As sharp as a knife’s blade, Radu Jude’s latest short visually quotes Sergei Eisenstein’s Soviet classic Battleship Potemkin to dissect the paradoxes of the present. Holding no punches, darkly comic musings on cinema and memory expose the sheer absurdity of artmaking under bureaucratic authorities.
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The scars of war are laid bare in this piercing drama from writer-director Maksym Nakonechnyi. Stylistically inventive and featuring a compelling lead performance from newcomer Rita Burkovska, Butterfly Vision is a timely testament to the trauma and resilience of women on the Ukrainian frontlines.
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Wild with the elemental powers of water, fire, and air, Léa Mysius’s witchy second feature inventively folds a queer love story—featuring a magnetic Adèle Exarchopoulos—in a girl’s time-hopping coming-of-age fantasy. Magic is afoot in this genre-defying family tale of desire, prejudice, and revenge.
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Liked reviews
Visionary director Djibril Diop Mambéty (Touki Bouki) makes a feisty assault on economic imperialism in this loose adaptation of Friedrich Durrenmatt’s play, The Visit. Relocated to a Senegalese town, Hyenas is a comic, cutting critique of globalization conveyed with playful, imaginative flourish.
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Juxtaposing overwhelming sorrow with an underlying joy, Abderrahmane Sissako intertwines the cruel realities of occupation with buoyant, moving moments that overwhelmingly emphasize the strength of the human spirit. Timbuktu is a political film of defiance, resilience, and poetry.
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Thirty years before Call Me By Your Name, this lavish period drama from Merchant Ivory encapsulated their uniquely tender and direct perspective on gay love. Featuring a young Hugh Grant in a passionate, heartbreaking performance, this visionary piece of queer cinema has left its mark.
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Oh yeah
Evocative of excellence, glamor, and glasses of rosé, Cannes is perhaps the most famous of festivals. Since 1946, the crème de la crème of world cinema have assembled annually on the French Riviera to celebrate a star-studded slate of the year’s finest films. Take a stroll with us down the Boulevard de la Croisette and enjoy a few of our favorites from past editions of this never less than glittering affair.
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