Little White Lies recommends...
- The Raid Key Cities
Bloody, bruising and ball-bustingly brilliant from start to finish, Gareth Evans’ high-energy martial arts spectacle is quite simply one of the best action films in years. Destined to be a future cult classic. - iD Fest May 24-27
Derby QUAD’s annual art and film event kicks off later this month with aconversation with British director Mike Hodges, followed by a screening of his 1971 gangster classic, Get Carter. - LWLies X colette May 7 – June 2
To mark this year’s Cannes Film Festival, LWLies has teamed up with colette Paris to pay homage to the art of the movie poster with a special LWL70 print exhibition at colette’s flagship store in the heart of Paris. - Cannes Film Festival May 16-27
The 65th edition of the world’s biggest film festival sees a swarm of esteemed cine icons and fresh new talent descend on the legendary Croisette for 10 unmissable days of premieres and paparazzi-dodging mayhem. - Want to see your event here? Just tweet us @LWLies with the info and a link.
Amour (Love) – Cannes Film Festival 2012
David Jenkins: Austrian master Michael Haneke's latest is his most humane work to date, but that's not to say he's gone soft on us...
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Lawless – Cannes Film Festival 2012
Adam Woodward: Nick Cave and director John Hillcoat deliver a sturdy and swaggering adaptation of Matt Bondurant's lyrical bootlegging novel.
Reality – Cannes Film Festival 2012
David Jenkins: Gomorrah director Matteo Garrone returns with a flawed satire on reality television.
Beasts of the Southern Wild – Cannes Film Festival 2012
Adam Woodward: Clarity and compassion abound in this Cajun drama, but is Beasts of the Southern Wild quite as smart as it thinks?
After The Battle / Paradise: Love – Cannes Film Festival 2012
David Jenkins: The Competition got political on the turn of day deux, with Ulrich Seidl and Yousry Nasrallah bring sex tourism and the Arab Spring to the fore respectively.
Rust & Bone – Cannes Film Festival 2012
Adam Woodward: Jacques Audiard's sixth feature is a beautiful and at times brutal study of pain and healing rooted in human tragedy. But it's not as affecting as we'd hoped.
Moonrise Kingdom – Cannes Film Festival 2012
David Jenkins: Wes Anderson gets Cannes 2012 off to a fine start with a film that anchors his trademark whimsy with a sincere and heady romanticism.
Reviews
The Raid
May 17 2012: Gareth Evans' deliriously violent Indonesian martial arts flick is the most exciting action movie – and one of the best cinematic spectacles – of the last decade, writes Matt Bochenski
If I Want To Whistle, I Whistle
May 17 2012: Florin Şerban’s sweaty and severe film offers a general examination of the small but important liberties that are denied to you once behind prison walls, writes David Jenkins
2 Days In New York
May 17 2012: Despite starring Chris Rock, Julie Delpy's directorial follow up to her 2007 comedy simply isn’t funny, writes Ashley Clark
The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp
May 17 2012: Powell and Pressburger's sweeping drama is among the greatest achievements of any British filmmakers, writes Wally Hammond
The Source
May 17 2012: A whimsical tale of Muslim women, water and wedlock, with precious little direction, drive or purpose., writes Daniel Green
She Monkeys
May 17 2012: A startling, subtly Sapphic psychodrama based around the dynamics of a fiercely competitive female sport, writes Emma Dibdin
Even The Rain
May 17 2012: A handwringing treatise on filmmaking and Third World exploitation from the pen of Paul Laverty, writes Sherwyn Spencer
Piranha 3DD
May 11 2012: Much like its title suggests, Piranha 3DD is a joke that isn’t funny any more, writes Martyn Conterio
