Montparnasse Bienvenüe
Léonor Serraille’s debut feature opens with a hysterical woman. First, this redheaded fury is raging in a stairwell, demanding to... View Article
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New Finnish Short Films
Helmi Donner: The Lightning Rod (Finland, 2025, 21 min) Finland’s contribution to this year’s Cannes Film Festival can be found in... View Article
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Love
Urologist Marianne is not interested in a relationship, yet her friend is trying to set her up with a divorced... View Article
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Lumiere! The Adventure Continues
Nine years ago, Thierry Frémaux (guest of the festival in 2001) made the indisputably fascinating documentary Lumière! about the short... View Article
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Long Good Thursday
The fourth instalment of the Grump series, based on the novels by Tuomas Kyrö, opens with a scene in which... View Article
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Katya’s Autumn
In 1984 Aki Kaurismäki wrote: ”Mänttäri’s films have the troublesome effect of gnawing at us, sneering at us from behind... View Article
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Kronos Kairos
Premiere at the Midnight Sun Film Festival! A timeless, stark, black-and-white landscape, ruthless to its inhabitant, sets the stage for... View Article
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Lesson Learned
Hungarian director Bálint Szimler’s first narrative feature Lesson Learned, which was awarded at Locarno, takes an interesting approach to the... View Article
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Intercepted
There have been impressive films about the war in Ukraine, such as from director Sergei Loznitsa (guest of the festival... View Article
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Greed
Erich von Stroheim's Greed is probably, along with Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), the most famous mutilated masterpiece in the history of cinema, an epic exploration of human nature that has been slashed from its original length of over nine hours to its current running time.
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