Deadline is on the ground to watch all the key films.
Its sometimes too oblique to be totally satisfying, but Seydoux is a revelation.
Its as if someone commanded Larrain and Calderon to amaze and astonish, and they willingly obliged.
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But the emotional input really earns its payoff in a confident, imaginatively mounted calling card.
On the contrary; his story runs up hard against any kind of easy ending.
A lion features here, roaring at passers-by.
Emanuela Scarpa
It may well be the films most sympathetic character.
It confirms his standing as a filmmaker of impressive originality, skill and style.
PerhapsMemoryis the film that will bring him to a broader public.
Heartache never knows when to stop, but a film should.
Elvis Presleys story, moreover, has been told often enough.
Told from his former wifes point of view, however, it becomes another story altogether.
Its a historical epic out of Denmark that has all the virtues of a midday movie remembered from childhood.
Plus, it has one element those midday movies didnt: Mads Mikkelsen.
Society of the Snow
Section: Out of CompetitionDirector:J.A.
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Most impressive, however, is the truly frightening crash itself captured in excruciating detail.
This is a human story but with implied footnotes, and one that plays awkwardly on the screen.
