2024 Cannes Diaries #1

Cannes Diaries - Pre-Cannes

"Being a cinephile means paying two months' worth of minimum wage for accommodation in euros and rejoicing over free movie tickets."

Greetings from the French Riviera!

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Vortex (2022)

⭐⭐⭐⭐ How can the feeling of death be most intensely conveyed to the screen?

1. With the visual masterpiece of Ozu in Tokyo Story, by stopping the life in the city completely, without showing the death itself

2. By crumpling the "square" it covers

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La nuit du 12 (2022)

⭐️⭐️⭐️ It's a drama on a velodrome loop; premiered in Cannes last year, La Nuit de 12 is the 7th feature film by German-Belgian director Dominik Moll. Being shot only in 34 days, it's a sucessful film noir holding the suspense for