Read the full article on Film Companion, here: https://www.filmcompanion.in/cannes-2019-matthias-and-maxime-movie-review-baradwaj-rangan/
Plus Marco Bellocchio’s ‘The Traitor’. And Abdellatif Kechiche’s ‘Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo’.
In Xavier Dolan’s Matthias & Maxime, the director — playing the latter half of the title — sports a wine-red birthmark that pools over the right side of his face. From the outside, this may be the most distinctive aspect about Maxime. He’s just another bloke, leading just another nondescript life, with just another nondescript best friend in a lawyer named Matthias (Gabriel D’Almeida Fritas). Or is there more to this friendship? They’ll soon get to find out, when they are arm-twisted into acting in the student film of a friend’s sister. The scene requires them to kiss. Matthias & Maxime lean forward and… CUT. Dolan doesn’t show them kissing. He’s more interested in the aftermath. First, we see Matthias writhe. Then, it’s Maxime’s turn. The former stretch is definitely the film’s, well, better half.
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brangan
May 25, 2019
Rahini: You can heave a sigh of relief. Back to regular programming now, though I regret to say I will not be reviewing LISA or NEEYA 2 😁
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Srinivas R
May 25, 2019
BR, better be kind to Vishal Menon during appraisal, he has suffered through horrible movies while you return to review NGK 🙂
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rmahalik
May 25, 2019
BR, how about PM Narendra Modi 😁
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An Jo
May 25, 2019
Afghan filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat’s Directors’ Fortnight title Parwareshgah (The Orphanage), awash with Bachchan mania, brought the strains of retro Hindi film songs to the French Riviera even as India had a quiet year at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival. The Orphanage, set during the final years of Soviet occupation and the advent of the Mujahideen, weaves these musical numbers into a simple, unadorned narrative about a teenage Afghan boy who sells movie tickets on the black market and seeks escape from his troubles in Bollywood-inspired fantasies. His room in a Soviet-run orphanage is plastered with pinups of Amitabh Bachchan.
The young protagonist of the film, the second part of a planned pentalogy based on the unpublished diaries of the 29-year-old director’s friend Anwar Hashimi, projects himself into movie scenes featuring the Hindi cinema megastar in a bid to make his life a little less ordinary.
https://www.ndtv.com/entertainment/cannes-2019-afghan-film-brings-bollywood-and-amitabh-bachchan-to-the-film-festival-2042841?pfrom=home-lateststories
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Rahini David
May 25, 2019
LISA & NEEYA 2 can go to hell. 😊
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Ramit
May 26, 2019
@An Jo- BR wrote about it here:
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