It's a wrap!

In the final episode of this year's Cannes Film Festival, Eliana and Patrick are once again joined by Öykü Sofuoğlu.

Together, they discuss:

• Jafar Panahi's Palme d'Or-winning It Was Just an Accident | یک تصادف ساده
• Joachim Trier's Grand Jury Prize-winner Sentimental Value | Affeksjonsverdi
• Nadav Lapid's Yes or Yes! | כן
• Kelly Reichardt's The Mastermind (which, alas, did not win any award)
• Kristen Stewart's The Chronology of Water
• Simón Mesa Soto's A Poet | Un Poeta
• Diego Céspedes | Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo | La Misteriosa Mirada del Flamenco
• and in passing : Alice Douard's Love Letters | Les preuves d'amours, Anna Cazenave Cambet's Love me Tender, Harris Dickinson's Urchin + Scarlett Johansson's Eleanor the Great

For more of Öykü's work, check out her reviews on Sentimental Value, Christian Petzold's Mirrors No. 3, or Hafsia Herzi's The Little Sister for InReview Online.

For those interested in more thoughts on one of our festival favorites, Pauline Loquès’, Nino, read Patrick's review or listen to one of our previous episodes.

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Credits:

Image: It Was Just an Acccident Film Poster

Frame by Kumiko Shimuzu - Free to use under the Unsplash License

Sound:

Intro: EFF Open Audio License for Le Carnaval des Animaux (Saint-Saëns, Camille - Aquarium) by Neal O'Doan (Piano) Nancy O'Doan (Piano), and Seattle Youth Orchestra Pandora Records/Al Goldstein Archive.

Extro: La Bouche - Be My Lover

Welcome back to our coverage of the 78th Cannes Film Festival!

For episode five, Łukasz Mańkowski join us (Patrick and Eliana) to discuss programming for Five Flavors film festival and the following films on day eleven of twelve:

• Renoir ルノワール by Chie Hayakawa 早川千絵 (Competition)
• Left-Handed Girl 左撇子女孩 by Shih-Ching Tsou 鄒時擎 (Semaine)
• A Useful Ghost ผีใช้ได้ค่ะ by Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke รัชฏ์ภูมิ บุญบัญชาโชค (Semaine de la Critique * Winner)
• Brand New Landscape 見はらし世代 by Yuiga Danzuka 団塚唯我 (Quinzaine)
• Love on Trial 恋愛裁判 by Kōji Fukada 深田晃司 (Cannes Première)
• Resurrection 狂野时代 by Bi Gan 畢贛 (Competition)

Łukasz Mańkowski is a film scholar, film critic, and film programmer for the annual Five Flavours Asian Film Festival which will be taking place in November this year in Warsaw. You can follow him on Twitter/X here!

Thanks for listening!

If you have any comments, suggestions, or want to get in touch: cannesversations@proton.me

Credits:

Image: Resurrection Film Poster

Officiel du 78e Festival de Cannes : © Les Films 13 – Un homme et une femme de Claude Lelouch (1966) / Création graphique © Hartland Villa

Frame by Kumiko Shimuzu - Free to use under the Unsplash License

Sound:

Intro: EFF Open Audio License for Le Carnaval des Animaux (Saint-Saëns, Camille - Aquarium) by Neal O'Doan (Piano) Nancy O'Doan (Piano), and Seattle Youth Orchestra Pandora Records/Al Goldstein Archive.

Extro: Quinzaine des Cineastes Intro Extract Music: Cyril Moisson | Piano: Frédéric Fortuny

Welcome back to our coverage of the 78th Cannes Film Festival!

For episode four, Maja Korbecka and Jakob Jurisch join us (Patrick and Eliana) to discuss the following films on day nine of twelve:

• The History of Sound by Oliver Hermanus (Competition)
• Sterne by Konrad Wolf (Cannes Classics)
• Magellan (Drifting Laurent) by Lav Diaz (Cannes Première)
• O Riso e a Faca (Only I Rest in the Storm) by Pedro Pinho (Un Certain Regard)
• Renoir ルノワール by Chie Hayakawa 早川千絵 (Competition)

Maja Korbecka is a film studies researcher and film critic who focuses on Sinophone and Southeast Asian cinemas. She has contributed to Senses of Cinema, The China Project, Easternkicks, Frameland, and EKRANy magazine. This year, she will write for the Chinese Print Film Magazine Da Zhong Dian Ying 大衆電影.

Jakob Jurisch is a Hessen-born Berlin-based film critic who writes for moviebreak.de. For German speakers, Jakob and Patrick's German-language cover of Cannes is also available on moviebreak.de. You can listen to their German-language podcast coverage here.

Thanks for listening!

If you have any comments, suggestions, or want to get in touch: cannesversations@proton.me

Credits:

Image: O Riso e a Faca Film Still

Officiel du 78e Festival de Cannes : © Les Films 13 – Un homme et une femme de Claude Lelouch (1966) / Création graphique © Hartland Villa

Frame by Kumiko Shimuzu - Free to use under the Unsplash License

Sound:

Intro: EFF Open Audio License for Le Carnaval des Animaux (Saint-Saëns, Camille - Aquarium) by Neal O'Doan (Piano) Nancy O'Doan (Piano), and Seattle Youth Orchestra Pandora Records/Al Goldstein Archive.

Extro: Quinzaine des Cineastes Intro Extract Music: Cyril Moisson | Piano: Frédéric Fortuny

Welcome back to our coverage of the 78th Cannes Film Festival episode three!

This is the first time that we have had the chance to sit down with a director at Cannes. The film, Imago, featured in the Semaine de la Critique side section and picked up two prizes this past week: The French Touch and the Golden Eye.

We talk to director Déni Oumar Pitsaev about some of the themes in this highly personal hybrid documentary film about the filmmaker's empathetic exploration and confrontation with a foreign yet familial place where culture, tradition, and displacement disparity between the symbolic and semantic: 'home' and 'house'; representing a universal entanglement with one's roots.

Thanks for listening!

If you have any comments, suggestions, or want to get in touch: cannesversations@proton.me

Credits:

Image: Imago Film Still

Officiel du 78e Festival de Cannes : © Les Films 13 – Un homme et une femme de Claude Lelouch (1966) / Création graphique © Hartland Villa

Frame by Kumiko Shimuzu - Free to use under the Unsplash License

Sound:

Intro: EFF Open Audio License for Le Carnaval des Animaux (Saint-Saëns, Camille - Aquarium) by Neal O'Doan (Piano) Nancy O'Doan (Piano), and Seattle Youth Orchestra Pandora Records/Al Goldstein Archive.

Extro: Quinzaine des Cineastes Intro Extract Music: Cyril Moisson | Piano: Frédéric Fortuny

Welcome back to our coverage of the 78th Cannes Film Festival!

We (Patrick and Eliana) share our first reactions and give a sneak peek at the festival's ongoing films and events.

Join us on day eight of twelve, episode two, as we rewind to a pre-festival recording to discuss the following films:

• Drunken Noodles by Lucio Castro (ACID)
• Nino by Pauline Loquès (Semaine de la Critique)
• Laurent dans le vent (Drifting Laurent) by Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture et Mattéo Eustachon (ACID)

For those who are German speakers, you can also find Patrick on moviebreak.de and can listen to his German-language podcast coverage here: RSS | Spotify !

Thanks for listening!

If you have any comments, suggestions, or want to get in touch: cannesversations@proton.me

Credits:

Image: Drunken Noodles Film Still

Officiel du 78e Festival de Cannes : © Les Films 13 – Un homme et une femme de Claude Lelouch (1966) / Création graphique © Hartland Villa

Frame by Kumiko Shimuzu - Free to use under the Unsplash License

Sound:

Intro: EFF Open Audio License for Le Carnaval des Animaux (Saint-Saëns, Camille - Aquarium) by Neal O'Doan (Piano) Nancy O'Doan (Piano), and Seattle Youth Orchestra Pandora Records/Al Goldstein Archive.

Extro: Quinzaine des Cineastes Intro Extract Music: Cyril Moisson | Piano: Frédéric Fortuny

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.

Join us on day four of twelve to discuss the festival's opening days:

• Partir un Jour by Amélie Bonnin
• Gold Rush by Charlie Chaplin
• The Sound of Falling by Mascha Schilinski
• Two Prosecutors by Sergei Loznitsa
• Sirat by Óliver Laxe

Coming soon:

• Drunken Noodles by Lucio Castro (ACID)
• Nino by Pauline Loquès (Semaine de la Critique)
• Laurent dans le vent (Drifting Laurent) by Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture et Mattéo Eustachon (ACID)

and more...

For those who are German speakers, you can also find Patrick on moviebreak.de and can listen to his German-language podcast coverage here: RSS | Spotify !

Thanks for listening!

If you have any comments or suggestions or want to get in touch: cannesversations@proton.me

Credits:

Sirat Film Poster

Frame by Kumiko Shimuzu - Free to use under the Unsplash License

Officiel du 78e Festival de Cannes : © Les Films 13 – Un homme et une femme de Claude Lelouch (1966) / Création graphique © Hartland Villa

Sound:

Intro: EFF Open Audio License for Le Carnaval des Animaux (Saint-Saëns, Camille - Aquarium) by Neal O'Doan (Piano) Nancy O'Doan (Piano), and Seattle Youth Orchestra Pandora Records/Al Goldstein Archive.

Extro: Quinzaine des Cineastes Intro Extract Music: Cyril Moisson | Piano: Frédéric Fortuny

For the second part of the first episodes of Cannesversations this year, Eliana and Patrick (X | LB) are joined by critic friends Öykü Sofuoğlu and Lawrence Garcia to look back at their favorite films of 2024.

Follow Öykü (X | LB) & Lawrence (X | LB) on Twitter/X or Letterboxd

Our Part 2 Top 10 Films discussion begins with

• Lawrence's #5 to 1 - 00:26
• #4 - 23:30
• #3 - 48:35
• #2 - 1:08:10
• #1 - 1:27:45
• # 1:43:38 - Yay or Nay? Patrick reads a list of films that will come out in 2025.

Lawrence

• The Damned | Roberto Minervini
• Kottukali (The Adamant Girl) | PS Vinoth Raj
• The Periphery of the Base | Zhou Tao
• L'Empire | Bruno Dumont
• Miséricorde | Alain Guiraudie

Öykü

• Bluish | Lilith Kraxner, Milena Czernovsky
• Caught by the Tides | Jia Zhangke
• Direct Action | Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell
• Scénarios | Jean-Luc Goddard

Patrick

• Castration Movie Anthology i. Traps | Louise Weard
• Grand Tour | Miguel Gomes
• Direct Action
• Tú me abrasas | Matías Piñeiro

Eliana

• Lazaró at Night | Nicolás Pereda
• Reas | Lola Arias
• We are Inside | Farah Kassem
• Miséricorde

We wish all of you a happy year of the Snake!~

Credits:

Image: An amalgamation of all films mentioned

Sound:

Intro: EFF Open Audio License for Le Carnaval des Animaux (Saint-Saëns, Camille - Aquarium) by Neal O'Doan (Piano) Nancy O'Doan (Piano), and Seattle Youth Orchestra Pandora Records/Al Goldstein Archive.

Extro: Quinzaine des Cineastes Intro Extract Music: Cyril Moisson | Piano: Frédéric Fortuny

For the first episode of Cannesversations this year, Eliana and Patrick (X | LB) are joined by critic friends Öykü Sofuoğlu and Lawrence Garcia for the second year to look back at their favorite films of 2024.

Follow Öykü (X | LB) & Lawrence (X | LB) on Twitter/X or Letterboxd

Our Part 1 Top 10 Films discussion begins with

• #10 - 33:35
• #9 - 43:00
• #8 - 59:12
• #7 - 1:17:18
• #6 - 1:19:50
• #5 - 1:28:24

Öykü

• The Periphery of the Base | Zhou Tao
• Les Reines du Drames | Alexis Langlois
• By the Stream | Hong Sang Soo
• Miséricorde | Alain Guiraudie
• 100,000,000,000 (Cent mille milliards) | Virgil Vernier
• Eat the Night | Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel

Lawrence

• Presence | Steven Soderbergh
• Hard Truths | Mike Leigh
• By the Stream
• Chime | Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• The Other Way Around | Jonás Trueba

Patrick

• Miséricorde
• Israel Palestina on Swedish TV 1958-1989 | Göran Olsson
• Youth (Homecoming) | Wang Bing
• We are Inside | Farah Kassem
• Los delincuentes | Rodrigo Moreno

Eliana

• The Room Next Door | Pedro Almodovár
• Israel Palestina on Swedish TV 1958-1989
• Dahomey | Mati Diop
• Castration Movie Anthology i. Traps | Louise Weard
• Bluish | Lilith Kraxner, Milena Czernovsky & All We Imagine as Light | Payal Kapadia
• Tú me abrasas | Matías Piñeiro

Part two of our top 10 films of 2024 will be coming soon!

We wish all of you a happy 2025

Credits:

Image: An amalgamation of all films mentioned

Sound:

Intro: EFF Open Audio License for Le Carnaval des Animaux (Saint-Saëns, Camille - Aquarium) by Neal O'Doan (Piano) Nancy O'Doan (Piano), and Seattle Youth Orchestra Pandora Records/Al Goldstein Archive.

Extro: Quinzaine des Cineastes Intro Extract Music: Cyril Moisson | Piano: Frédéric Fortuny