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Cannes 2022: Final Cut
The 2022 Cannes Film Festival kicked off with an address from Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. The opening movie, meanwhile, was a dismal remake.
Ben Kenigsberg is a frequent contributor to The New York Times. He edited the film section of Time Out Chicago from 2011 to 2013 and served as a staff critic for the magazine beginning in 2006. Prior to that, he was a mainstay in the film pages of The Village Voice. He has also written for Variety, Slate, The A.V. Club, and Vulture, among other publications.
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The 2022 Cannes Film Festival kicked off with an address from Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. The opening movie, meanwhile, was a dismal remake.
Julia Ducournau's Titane took the Palme d'Or at Cannes. It's only the second feature directed by a woman to do so.
Ben Kenigsberg reviews the festival's final competition titles, from Joachim Lafosse, Justin Kurzel, Nabil Ayouch, and Bruno Dumont.
Ben Kenigsberg reviews Memoria, the first feature in six years from the Palme d'Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul, along with Jacques Audiard's Paris, 13th District and Ildiko Enyedi's The Story of My Wife.
Sean Baker (The Florida Project) and Julia Ducournau (Raw) get upgraded to the Cannes competition with Red Rocket and Titane.
Ben Kenigsberg reviews A Hero, the latest film from A Separation director Asghar Farhadi, and Deception, a French adaptation of Philip Roth.
Ben Kenigsberg delivers a dispatch from France on The French Dispatch, Wes Anderson's latest, and on JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, Oliver Stone's latest examination of the Kennedy assassination.
Ben Kenigsberg reviews two films about the creative process, Mia Hansen-Løve's Bergman Island and Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Drive My Car, from Cannes.
Ben Kenigsberg reviews Sean Penn's Flag Day from Cannes, along with Catherine Corsini's The Divide and Juho Kuosmanen's Compartment No. 6.
Ben Kenigsberg reviews Paul Verhoeven's Benedetta and Joachim Trier's The Worst Person in the World from the Cannes Film Festival.
