Justin Chang
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first heard Nov 2024
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Even so, I can't say that I minded the general absence of Hollywood at the festival this year.
One of the reasons I keep returning to Cannes is that it shows interesting movies from all over the world.
Movies like the gorgeous and moving Rwanda set drama, Danyamana, about efforts to bring about truth and reconciliation years after the 1994 genocide.
The film earned its director, Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo, the Camerador Prize for Best Debut Feature.
My favorite film at Cannes this year was All of a Sudden, from the Japanese director, Rusuke Hamaguchi.
Set in and around a Parisian elder care home, it uses the close bond between two women, one French and one Japanese, to raise haunting questions about how we live, how we die, and most of all, how we talk to each other.
Like Hamaguchi's Oscar-winning Drive My Car, All of a Sudden is a reminder that something as simple as a conversation between friends can make for sublimely moving cinema.
I can't wait to see it again.
And I can't wait for you to see it too.
Some movies will forever change the way you look at plants.
Unsurprisingly, many of them are thrillers and science fiction films, like Little Shop of Horrors, The Day of the Triffids, or more recently, the mind-controlling flower freak-out Little Joe.
You could probably make a more sinister version of the new drama Silent Friend.
which dares to suggest that the tree outside your door, or the geranium on your windowsill, might be studying you intently, and might even reach out, if it could, and tell you what it's thinking.
But the Hungarian filmmaker Ildiko Enyedi isn't interested in scaring us.
She wants us to leave this movie feeling more connected to the natural world.
Silent Friend tells three separate stories, all set in different periods across more than a century, but rooted in the same location, the University of Marburg in Germany.
First, we meet a neuroscientist named Tony, played by the Hong Kong star Tony Leung Chu-wai, who's visiting the school as a guest researcher.
It's 2020, and when COVID hits, Tony is left stranded on a near-empty campus.
Bored and lonely, he stumbles on some online videos featuring a French botanist, Alice, played by Lea Seydoux, and is captivated by her theory that plants have a highly developed consciousness.
Inspired, Tony plans an experiment and gets in touch with Alice via Zoom to ask for her guidance.
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