Cannes Film Festival

Leave One Day review
Cannes 2025: Leave One Day (Partir un Jour) and Enzo

In what feels like a very natural fit, I’ll be pairing together two of the…

Cannes 2025: Two Prosecutors and Eddington

In this Cannes Film Festival report we take a look at Eddington and Two Prosecutors.

Cannes 2025: Sound of Falling and A Pale View Of Hills
Cannes 2025: Sound of Falling and A Pale View Of Hills

From this Cannes Film Festival 2025, Film Inquiry screened Pale View of Hills and Sound of Falling.

Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning review
Cannes 2025: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

When Tom Cruise asks you to trust him one last time, it’s hard to say…

Cannes Film Festival 2024: ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT & WHEN THE LIGHT BREAKS
Cannes Film Festival 2024: ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT & WHEN THE LIGHT BREAKS

From Cannes Film Festival Wilson Kwong reviews Payal Kapadia’s Grand Prix winning All We Imagine as Light and Rúnar Rúnarsson’s When the Light Breaks.

Cannes Film Festival 2024: THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE & WILD DIAMOND
Cannes Film Festival 2024: THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE & WILD DIAMOND

From Cannes Film Festival, Wilson Kwong reviews
Magnus von Horn’s The Girl with the Needle and Agathe Riedinger’s Wild Diamond.

Cannes Film Festival 2024: GHOST TRAIL & BLACK DOG
Cannes Film Festival 2024: GHOST TRAIL & BLACK DOG

Jonathan Millet’s Ghost Trail and Guan Hu’s Black Dog both tackle serious subject matter with subdued restraint.

Cannes Film Festival 2024: MEGALOPOLIS
Cannes Film Festival 2024: MEGALOPOLIS

It’s truly difficult to qualify the beast of an experience that is Megalopolis, and because of that, there’s an undefinable elegance.

Cannes Film Festival 2024: THE SECOND ACT & ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL
Cannes Film Festival 2024: THE SECOND ACT & ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL

At Canne’s 2024, Film Inquiry reviews Quentin Dupieux’s The Second Act (Le Deuxieme Acte), and Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl.

Cannes Film Festival 2024: FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA
Cannes Film Festival 2024: FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, is a prime example of how to craft a narrative expansion that ignites a creative spark worthy of praise.

Cannes 2023: ALL TO PLAY FAR & MARGUERITE’s THEOREM
Cannes 2023: ALL TO PLAY FAR & MARGUERITE’S THEOREM

Wilson Kwong dives into two films that are interesting examples of dramatic French cinema with clear commercial appeal. 

Cannes Film Festival 2023: ALL TO PLAY FOR
Cannes Film Festival 2023: ALL TO PLAY FOR

Delphine Deloget’s social-realist French drama, “All to Play For,” also known as “Nothing to Lose,” premiered at Cannes in 2023.

Cannes Film Festival 2023: LEGUA
Cannes Film Festival 2023: LEGUA

Légua is a feature with various artistic virtues and moments of stunning visual prowess and a strong tendency toward mood and atmosphere. 

Cannes Film Festival 2023: OMEN
Cannes Film Festival 2023: OMEN

Omen is an undeniably beautiful film that is a prime showcase for Baloji’s talents as a visual storyteller.

Cannes Film Festival 2023: L'ABBÉ PIERRE
Cannes Film Festival 2023: L’ABBÉ PIERRE

L’abbe Pierre stuns with incredible, reflective artistry, designing a an exquisite stage Benjamin Lavernhe dominates from start to finish.