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Cannes Film Festival 2023

Posted by Gui on May 29, 2023

After a couple of years of disruption and a triumphant return last year, the world’s biggest and most prestigious film festival once again gathered the great and the good of global cinema to the French Riviera to celebrate 76th edition of the annual Cannes Film Festival. As usual international media and selected audiences caught a […]

Triangle of Sadness (2022)- BFI London Film Festival 2022

Posted by Gui on October 16, 2022

Review 147min Genre:       Comedy, Drama Director:     Ruben Östlund Cast:         Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Woody Harrelson…and more Writers:     Ruben Östlund -Synopsis- In the lap of luxury on a swanky private cruise, a young model couple find themselves trapped with an array of morally questionable mega rich passengers when disaster strikes, as cliques and hierarchies are turned […]

Cannes Film Festival 2022

Posted by Gui on May 29, 2022

After a global pandemic put an end to the 2020 version and moved last year’s streamlined return to a high summer affair, the world’s biggest and most prestigious film festival returned en force to its traditional spring slot and brought the great and the good of global cinema back to the French Riviera to celebrate […]

Cannes Film Festival 2021

Posted by Gui on July 19, 2021

Over a year since a global pandemic nixed the full 2020 version and a couple of months after its traditional date, the world’s most prestigious film festival finally returns to the French Riviera as the great and the good of global cinema gathered for the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival. As films and their makers […]

Cannes Film Festival 2019

Posted by Gui on May 26, 2019

Another year another late spring visit to the French riviera, where the great and the good of the global film industry, and the world’s press, converged on the 14th of May to mark the beginning of twelve days of film celebration and promotion at the world’s biggest and most prestigious film festival, the 72nd annual […]

Cannes Film Festival 2018

Posted by Gui on May 21, 2018

The world’s biggest and most prestigious film festival got an early start this year as the 8th of May saw the great and the good of the global film industry converge once again on the French riviera, flanked of course by the world’s media, kicking-off twelve days of glitz and celebration of the cinematic arts […]

Cannes Film Festival 2017

Posted by Gui on May 29, 2017

The global film industry and world’s media converged on the French riviera on the 17th of May to kick-off twelve days of celebration of the cinematic arts—not to mention all the glitzy pomp and premieres—as the 70th edition of the world’s most prestigious film festival opened in style. Once again filmmakers & shakers from across […]

I, Daniel Blake (2016)

Posted by Gui on October 22, 2016

Review 100min Genre:      Drama Director:   Ken Loach Cast:        Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, Sharon Percy…and more Writer:     Paul Laverty -Synopsis- Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or winning drama is the story of two disparate working class Brits; one a middle-aged carpenter and the other a young single mom, brought together by hardship and their dependence on a bureaucratic […]

Cannes Film Festival 2016

Posted by Gui on May 23, 2016

The 11th of May signaled the beginning of the 69th Cannes Film Festival; where filmmakers & shakers from across the globe converge on the French riviera for 12 glitzy days of pomp and premieres, bringing the world an array of likely award-contending films to be released throughout the rest of 2016 and well into 2017… […]