Cannes 2009: Jane Campion, Alain Resnais, Brillante Mendoza, Johnnie To, Lou Ye
Alternative Film Guide May 20 09Peter Bradshaw on Bright Star (with Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw, above) in The Guardian: "Jane Campion has put herself in line for her second Palme d’Or here at the Cannes film festival with a film which I think could be the best of her career; an affecting and deeply considered study of the last years in the short life of John Keats, and the ecstasy of loss which suffuses his love affair with Fanny Brawne – a love thwarted not due to illness, but to a pernicious web of money worries, social scruples and irrelevant male loyalties." *** Maggie Lee on Kinatay in The Hollywood Reporter: "Festival darling Brillante Mendoza’s Kinatay is a long night’s journey into the Philippine underworld of casual corruption and nauseating cruelty, seen through the eyes of a greenhorn police cadet. Full story...
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