Author: Euan Cook

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    Euan Cook

    Cannes Snapshot Review: EO

    Viewed on Saturday 28 May as press for the Cannes Film Festival 2022. Red and black. Blurred, distorted. A donkey and a woman. Going round in circles. Birdseye view, until the letters ‘E’ and ‘O’ flash intermittently. Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO (2022) opens with its titular donkey performing in a Polish circus, pre-empting his spiralling through […]

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    Cannes Snapshot Review: Un Petit Frère

    Viewed on Friday 27 May as press for the Cannes Film Festival 2022. Following the story of a mother and her two young sons – Rose (Annabelle Lengronne), Jean (Stéphane Bak) and Ernest (Ahmed Sylla) – Léonor Serraille’s Un Petit Frère (2022), follows the tight-knit lives of Ivory Coast migrants who move to Paris in […]

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    Cannes Snapshot Review: Close

    Viewed on Saturday 28 May as press for the Cannes Film Festival 2022. Childhood is a crazy whirlwind. It’s where the young mature, core memories are created, love blossoms… Friendship is, arguably, the glue that holds it all together, and Lukas Dhont’s Close (2022) is a sensitive glance into the fragile world that is growing-up. […]

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    Cannes Snapshot Review: Rebel

    Viewed at the World Premiere on Thursday 26 May as press for the Cannes Film Festival 2022. 450,000 Syrians have lost their lives to the civil conflict in Syria over the last decade following pro-democracy protests demanding President Assad’s resignation. When the government deployed excessive force in retaliation for the arrest and torture of teenage […]

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    Cannes Snapshot Review: Broker

    Viewed on Thursday 26 May as press for the Cannes Film Festival 2022. A Busan family church, a baby box, and a seamster . . . a massive grin spread across my face as all these components are immediately thrust into a human-trafficking web of lies. Hirokazu Kore-eda has again taken the director’s baton with […]

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    Cannes Snapshot Review: Stars at Noon

    Euan Cook offers an honest, and sometimes scathing, opinion on Stars at Noon – a must-read for all film-enthusiasts.

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    Cannes Snapshot Review: Salam

    Euan Cook offers a fascinating overview of Salam, a documentary made on the life-story of once-acclaimed French rapper, Diam’s, while also penetrating into certain concealed aspects of her life to document what Salam stands for.