Cannesversations

Welcome back to our coverage of the 79th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. In episode 4 Eliana and Patrick ( Twitter ) discuss the following films with Jakob Jurisch of Moviebreak.de: Red Rocks by Bruno Dumont Everytime by Sandra Wollner L'Inconnue | The Unknown by Arthur Harari Notre Salut by Emmanuel Marre Мечтаното приключение | Das Geträumte Abenteuer | The Dreamed Adventure by Valeska Gris...

Welcome back to our coverage of the 79th Cannes Film Festival, episode three! In this episode, we ( Patrick and Eliana ) discuss our first impressions of the following films: Virages | Summer Drift by Aline Suter and Céline Carridroit Fjord by Christian Mungiu La Gradiva by Marine Atlan Credits: Sound: EFF Open Audio License for Le Carnaval des Animaux (Saint-Saëns, Camille - Aquarium) by Neal O'D...

Welcome back to our coverage of the Cannes Film Festival episode 2! This year is the 79th edition of the Cannes International Film Festival and marks our ( Eliana and Patrick ( Twitter )) fourth time covering it. In episode two, we discuss: Fatherland by Pawel Pawlikowski Siempre soy tu animal materno | Forever Your Maternal Animal by Valentina Maurel Double Freedom | La libertad doble by Lisandro...

Welcome back to our coverage of the Cannes Film Festival! This year is the 79th edition of the Cannes International Film Festival and marks our ( Eliana and Patrick ( Twitter )) fourth time covering it. In this episode, we discuss: The opening ceremony A Woman's Life | La vie d'une femme dir. Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet (Competition) Butterfly Jam dir. Kantemir Balagov (QdC) I can't Sleep | J'ai pa...

Eliana and Patrick ( X | LB ) are joined by Öykü Sofuoğlu and Lawrence Garcia to look back at our top 5 favorite films of 2025. Follow Öykü ( X | LB ) & Lawrence ( X | LB ) on Twitter/X or Letterboxd Find Öykü's work with Emitaï, and as co-host of new film podcast Outskirts & Hong Sang-Soo Die-hard Lawrence's review on What Does that Nature Say to You, as well as Ways of Worldmaking: Hong...

It's a wrap! In the final episode of this year's Cannes Film Festival, Eliana and Patrick are once again joined by Öykü Sofuoğlu . Together, they discuss: Jafar Panahi's Palme d'Or-winning It Was Just an Accident | یک تصادف ساده Joachim Trier's Grand Jury Prize-winner Sentimental Value | Affeksjonsverdi Nadav Lapid's Yes or Yes! | כן Kelly Reichardt's The Mastermind (which, alas, did not win any a...

Welcome back to our coverage of the 78th Cannes Film Festival! For episode five, Łukasz Mańkowski join us ( Patrick and Eliana ) to discuss programming for Five Flavors film festival and the following films on day eleven of twelve: Renoir ルノワール by Chie Hayakawa 早川千絵 (Competition) Left-Handed Girl 左撇子女孩 by Shih-Ching Tsou 鄒時擎 (Semaine) A Useful Ghost ผีใช้ได้ค่ะ by Ratchapoom Boonb...

Welcome back to our coverage of the 78th Cannes Film Festival! For episode four, Maja Korbecka and Jakob Jurisch join us ( Patrick and Eliana ) to discuss the following films on day nine of twelve: The History of Sound by Oliver Hermanus (Competition) Sterne by Konrad Wolf (Cannes Classics) Magellan (Drifting Laurent) by Lav Diaz (Cannes Première) O Riso e a Faca (Only I Rest in the Storm) by Pedr...

Welcome back to our coverage of the 78th Cannes Film Festival episode three! This is the first time that we have had the chance to sit down with a director at Cannes. The film, Imago, featured in the Semaine de la Critique side section and picked up two prizes this past week: The French Touch and the Golden Eye. We talk to director Déni Oumar Pitsaev about some of the themes in this highly persona...

Welcome back to our coverage of the 78th Cannes Film Festival! We ( Patrick and Eliana ) share our first reactions and give a sneak peek at the festival's ongoing films and events. Join us on day eight of twelve, episode two, as we rewind to a pre-festival recording to discuss the following films: Drunken Noodles by Lucio Castro (ACID) Nino by Pauline Loquès (Semaine de la Critique) Laurent dans l...

Welcome back to our coverage of the Cannes Film Festival! We ( Patrick and Eliana ) look forward to sharing our first reactions and giving a sneak peek at the festival's ongoing films and events. Join us on day four of twelve to discuss the festival's opening days: Partir un Jour by Amélie Bonnin Gold Rush by Charlie Chaplin The Sound of Falling by Mascha Schilinski Two Prosecutor s by Sergei Lozn...

For the second part of the first episodes of Cannesversations this year, Eliana and Patrick ( X | LB ) are joined by critic friends Öykü Sofuoğlu and Lawrence Garcia to look back at their favorite films of 2024. Follow Öykü ( X | LB ) & Lawrence ( X | LB ) on Twitter/X or Letterboxd Our Part 2 Top 10 Films discussion begins with Lawrence's #5 to 1 - 00:26 #4 - 23:30 #3 - 48:35 #2 - 1:08:10 #1...

For the first episode of Cannesversations this year, Eliana and Patrick ( X | LB ) are joined by critic friends Öykü Sofuoğlu and Lawrence Garcia for the second year to look back at their favorite films of 2024. Follow Öykü ( X | LB ) & Lawrence ( X | LB ) on Twitter/X or Letterboxd Our Part 1 Top 10 Films discussion begins with #10 - 33:35 #9 - 43:00 #8 - 59:12 #7 - 1:17:18 #6 - 1:19:50 #5 -...

On this episode, we ( Eliana & Patrick ) catch up one week after the festivities to wrap up our Cannesversations coverage of the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival . In this episode, we are joined by Öykü Sofuoğlu , independent film critic and podcast guest regular, to discuss: Post-festival impressions and the following films: Grand Tour by Miguel Gomes (Competion) - Best Director Award...

Welcome back to our coverage of the 77e of the Cannes Film Festival! Episode 4 ! We ( Eliana & Patrick ) look forward to sharing our first reactions and giving a sneak peek at the festival's ongoing films and events. In this episode, we are joined by Łukasz Mańkowski , an independent film critic and programmer for the annual Five Flavours Asian Film Festival , which will take place this year b...

Welcome back to our coverage of the 77e of the Cannes Film Festival! Episode 3 ! We ( Eliana & Patrick ) look forward to sharing our first reactions and giving a sneak peek at the festival's ongoing films and events. In this episode, we catch up on day eight of twelve to discuss the following films: Une Langue Universelle | Universal Language by Matthew Rankin (Quinzaine des Cinéastes) @ ~2 mi...

Welcome back to our coverage of the Cannes Film Festival! Episode 2! We ( Patrick and Eliana ) look forward to sharing our first reactions and giving a sneak peek at the festival's ongoing films and events. In this episode, we talk on day four of twelve to discuss the festival's Quinzaine de Cinéastes opening film, Ma Vie Ma Gueule | This Life of Mine by Sophie Fillières & competition film Bir...

Welcome back to our coverage of the Cannes Film Festival! We ( Patrick and Eliana ) look forward to sharing our first reactions and giving a sneak peek at the festival's ongoing films and events. In this episode, Jakob Jurisch joins us on day two of twelve to discuss the festival's opening film, Le Deuxième Acte | The Second Act (Quentin Dupieux), other festival controversies, and film anticipatio...

This week, Patrick and Eliana discuss Marcel Carné’s 1945 film Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise), which appeared in the 2011 Cannes Classics section. Filmed during the Nazi Occupation of France and released as the first film following its liberation, the film has continued to charm audiences in France and abroad with its gorgeous set design, iconic actors, and wit-infused characters, a...

For the last episode of Cannesversations this year, Eliana, and Patrick are joined by critic friends Öykü Sofuoğlu (this marks Öykü’s second time on the podcast; check out our Cannes episode on About Dry Grasses and May December ) and Lawrence Garcia to look back at their favorite films of 2023. Follow Öykü & Lawrence on Twitter/X Below, you'll find our Top 5 films. Top 5 Öykü 5 The Human Surg...

For the last episode of Cannesversations this year, Eliana, and Patrick are joined by critic friends Öykü Sofuoğlu (this marks Öykü’s second time on the podcast; check out our Cannes episode on About Dry Grasses and May December ) and Lawrence Garcia to look back at their favorite films of 2023. Follow Öykü & Lawrence on Twitter/X Below, you first find all our honorable mentions, followed by o...

This week Eliana and Patrick delve into Lizzie Borden's 1986 dramedy Working Girls about a day in the life of a group of young sex workers in a middle-class brothel in 1980s Manhattan. A milieu rarely ever depicted on the big screen in American cinema (in their Criterion essay So Meyer stresses that it was not until Sean Baker's Tangerine in 2015—three decades later—that the lived reality of sex w...

On this episode of Cannesversations Patrick and Eliana discuss Tsai Ming-Liang' s 2009 in-competition Cannes film, Visage (臉 | Face) . Commissioned by the Louvre Museum and sprinkled with the ghosts of Nouvelle Vague and Truffaut's own muses, the Taiwanese director's own muse, Lee Kang Sheng, wades through halls of grief and desire while directing a film based on the incandescent and timeless bib...

This week on Cannesversations, Eliana and Patrick discuss Valeska Grisebach’s self-described "dance with the Western genre," the 2017 Cannes Un Certain Regard film Western . Considered by some to be part of the second generation of the Berlin School and by others to be one of the distinct voices of the New Austrian Cinema, Grisebach distinguishes herself through her filmmaking approach by favoring...

This week Patrick and Eliana discuss Thomas Vinterberg’s 1998 Cannes Jury Prize winner, Festen (The Celebration) . The inaugural Dogme 95 film is filled with frenetic energy that put Denmark back on the filmmaking landscape as it attempted to break free from that which was mainstream and conventional. Resources: C. Claire Thomson. Thomas Vinterberg’s Festen. University of Washington Press, 2013.Li...