Editor's note: Critical Consensus is a biweekly feature in which two critics from Indiewire's Criticwire Network discuss new releases with Indiewire's chief film critic, Eric Kohn. In this edition, Toronto Star critic Peter Howell and Postmedia News critic Jay Stone discuss the latest edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Peter, as you wrote in one of your mid-festival reports, this was an especially graphic year for cinema at Cannes: sex and violence percolated throughout this year's selection. Even so, most of the stories had little in common. What, in your estimation, accounts for the shock factor in these films? Is it programmer Thierry Fremaux's sly attempt to shake things up or has contemporary cinema entered an especially provocative stage around the world? Peter Howell: Every year at one festival or another there's something to shake up the troops. But this year at Cannes, the shocks did indeed seem greater, with...
- 5/30/2013
- by Peter Howell, Eric Kohn and Jay Stone
- Indiewire
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