Cannes 2022: An Annotated Table of Contents | Festivals & Awards

“In ‘Armageddon Time,’ James Gray brings together all the ideas about class, opportunity, the immigrant experience, and life in New York that have run through his films since ‘Little Odessa.’ It’s his best movie since ‘The Immigrant,’ at least, and maybe his best movie, period—a forthrightly autobiographical coming-of-age picture that might look generic at first but steadily reveals an attention to detail that is rare. The specificity of character, of place, of advice given by a grandfather—they’re all the sorts of things that you could see haunting a 12-year-old for years, in ways that he would feel compelled to exorcise as an adult.”

Cannes 2022: One Fine Morning, Brother and Sister, Mariupolis 2 by Ben Kenigsberg

“Léa Seydoux plays Sandra, a translator and single mother whose father, Georg (Pascal Greggory), was a philosophy professor. But he has Benson’s syndrome, which has caused his mental acuity and vision to slip and led to the point where he can no longer live alone. Over the course of the film, Sandra and her mother (Nicole Garcia), who is divorced from Georg, keep moving him from one care facility to another, in the sort of ordinary but wrenching hassle that anyone who has watched a relative decline will recognize.”

Cannes 2022: Fest Launches with Zombies, Art Movies, and Maverick by Jason Gorber