On this episode, we (Eliana & Patrick) catch up one week after the festivities to wrap up our Cannesversations coverage of the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. In this episode, we are joined by Öykü Sofuoğlu, independent film critic and podcast guest regular, to discuss: Post-festival impressions and the following films:Grand Tour by Miguel Gomes(Competion) - Best Director Award@ ~32 min 00All We Imagine As Light by Payal Kapadia(Competion) - Grand Jury Prize@ ~51 min 10Anora by...

Welcome back to our coverage of the 77e of the Cannes Film Festival! Episode 4! We (Eliana & Patrick) look forward to sharing our first reactions and giving a sneak peek at the festival's ongoing films and events. In this episode, we are joined by Łukasz Manikowski, an independent film critic and programmer for the annual Five Flavours Asian Film Festival, which will take place this year between November 11-20 in Warsaw, Poland. Check it out! We catch up on day nine of twelve to discuss...

Welcome back to our coverage of the 77e of the Cannes Film Festival! Episode 3! We (Eliana & Patrick) look forward to sharing our first reactions and giving a sneak peek at the festival's ongoing films and events. In this episode, we catch up on day eight of twelve to discuss the following films: Une Langue Universelle | Universal Language by Matthew Rankin (Quinzaine des Cinéastes)@ ~2 min 50It Doesn't Matter by Josh Mond (acid)@ ~16 min 10The Other Way Around by Jonás Trueba@ ~29...

Welcome back to our coverage of the Cannes Film Festival! Episode 2! We (Patrick and Eliana) look forward to sharing our first reactions and giving a sneak peek at the festival's ongoing films and events. In this episode, we talk on day four of twelve to discuss the festival's Quinzaine de Cinéastes opening film, Ma Vie Ma Gueule | This Life of Mine by Sophie Fillières & competition film Bird by Andrea Arnold. Coming soon: Ma vie Ma gueule | This Life of Mine by Sophie Fillières...

Welcome back to our coverage of the Cannes Film Festival! We (Patrick and Eliana) look forward to sharing our first reactions and giving a sneak peek at the festival's ongoing films and events. In this episode, Jakob Jurisch joins us on day two of twelve to discuss the festival's opening film, Le Deuxième Acte | The Second Act (Quentin Dupieux), other festival controversies, and film anticipations. Coming soon: Ma vie Ma gueule | This Life of Mine by Sophie Fillières (Quinzaine des...

This week, Patrick and Eliana discuss Marcel Carné’s 1945 film Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise), which appeared in the 2011 Cannes Classics section. Filmed during the Nazi Occupation of France and released as the first film following its liberation, the film has continued to charm audiences in France and abroad with its gorgeous set design, iconic actors, and wit-infused characters, a result of the core collaboration between set designer Alexandre Trauner, screenwriter Jacques...

For the last episode of Cannesversations this year, Eliana, and Patrick are joined by critic friends Öykü Sofuoğlu (this marks Öykü’s second time on the podcast; check out our Cannes episode on About Dry Grasses and May December) and Lawrence Garcia to look back at their favorite films of 2023. Follow Öykü & Lawrence on Twitter/X Below, you'll find our Top 5 films. Top 5 Öykü 5 The Human Surge 3 (Eduardo 'Teddy' Williams)4 Afire (Christian Petzold)3 Los delincuentes (Rodrigo Moreno)2 May...

For the last episode of Cannesversations this year, Eliana, and Patrick are joined by critic friends Öykü Sofuoğlu (this marks Öykü’s second time on the podcast; check out our Cannes episode on About Dry Grasses and May December) and Lawrence Garcia to look back at their favorite films of 2023. Follow Öykü & Lawrence on Twitter/X Below, you first find all our honorable mentions, followed by our individual Top 10-6 films. Honorable Mentions Öykü Evil Does Not Exist (Ryûsuke...

This week Eliana and Patrick delve into Lizzie Borden's 1986 dramedy Working Girls about a day in the life of a group of young sex workers in a middle-class brothel in 1980s Manhattan. A milieu rarely ever depicted on the big screen in American cinema (in their Criterion essay So Meyer stresses that it was not until Sean Baker's Tangerine in 2015—three decades later—that the lived reality of sex workers would take center stage of a major US feature film again), Borden, with her observational...

On this episode of Cannesversations Patrick and Eliana discuss Tsai Ming-Liang's 2009 in-competition Cannes film, Visage (臉 | Face). Commissioned by the Louvre Museum and sprinkled with the ghosts of Nouvelle Vague and Truffaut's own muses, the Taiwanese director's own muse, Lee Kang Sheng, wades through halls of grief and desire while directing a film based on the incandescent and timeless biblical Salomé. Through long durational takes, absurd situations, and a composed acumen of transience,...

This week on Cannesversations, Eliana and Patrick discuss Valeska Grisebach’s self-described "dance with the Western genre," the 2017 Cannes Un Certain Regard film Western. Considered by some to be part of the second generation of the Berlin School and by others to be one of the distinct voices of the New Austrian Cinema, Grisebach distinguishes herself through her filmmaking approach by favoring a collaborative process with her actors in the conceptualization of scenes. Strangely enough,...

This week Patrick and Eliana discuss Thomas Vinterberg’s 1998 Cannes Jury Prize winner, Festen (The Celebration). The inaugural Dogme 95 film is filled with frenetic energy that put Denmark back on the filmmaking landscape as it attempted to break free from that which was mainstream and conventional. Resources: C. Claire Thomson. Thomas Vinterberg’s Festen. University of Washington Press, 2013.Liliana Pedrón de Martín. “Thomas Vinterberg’s Festen (1998). An Attempt to Avoid Madness through...

Eliana and Patrick have decided to keep Cannesversations afloat by riffling through the abundance of films historically screened at the Cannes film festival. This week we discuss Bob Fosse and his 1979 Palme d'Or winning All that Jazz and give our take on the legacy of the unapologetically frank choreographer whose personal and professional brilliance gave us this timeless spectacle. Credits: Jenai Kutcher: Bob Fosse. The Rosen Publishing Group, 2006. Dara Milovanovic: “The Fosse Woman....

Patrick and Eliana wrap up the film festival and discuss the closing ceremony, Justine Triet's Palme d'Or winner- Anatomie d'une Chute (Anatomy of a Fall), Catherine Breillat's L'été Dernier (Last Summer), and Alice Rohrwacher's La Chimera. 0:00 Intro End of Cannes + Closing Ceremony 13:26- Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall 36:46 - Catherine Breillat’s L’été Dernier 58:46 - Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera You can follow Patrick and Eliana on Letterboxd! ~Until next time! Credit: EFF Open Audio...

Patrick and Eliana are joined by Giancarlo to talk about films on day eleven of the Cannes Film Festival: Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest, Victor Erice's Close your Eyes (Cerrar los Ojos), and Pham Thien An's Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell. Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest -00:04:26 - 00:27:18 Victor Erice's Close Your Eyes 00:27:19 - 00:38:48 Pham Thien An's Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell - 00:38:48 - 01:02:38 You can follow Patrick , Eliana or GC on Letterboxd!

Patrick and Eliana talk about expectations and films on day two of the Cannes Film Festival and Jacques Rivette's L'Amour Fou and Maïwenn's Jeanne du Barry. We still need a jingle! Rundown of the Festival and Expectations 00:00 Jacques Rivette's L'Amour Fou 00:27:46 Maïwenn's Jeanne du Barry 00:31:53 You can follow Patrick and Eliana on Letterboxd!