Ep 152: Live from Cannes! From the red carpet to the film market, behind the scenes at the festival Girls On Film

Bonjour from Cannes! This week Anna Smith gives us a taste of the French Riviera live from the Festival de Cannes, catching some friends of Girls On Film out and about at the festival.

Anna is joined by fellow critics Wendy Mitchell and Karen Krizanovich who give you their hot tips for films coming out of this year's Cannes, from international indies to big blockbusters. They chat about Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s ground-breaking character in the newest instalment of Indiana Jones, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. They also discuss the welcome increase in female-led films in the festival this year. Malaysian director Amanda Nell Eu’s Tiger Stripes is also delved into, alongside other international films from Turkey, Argentina, Belgium, Finland, Mongolia, Italy…

Anna also speaks with journalist and critic Valerie Complex, a year after her controversial Deadline article ‘Valerie Complex On Being Black At Cannes: How Microaggressions Marred My Festival Experience’. You can read the article here:
https://deadline.com/2022/06/black-at-cannes-deadline-critic-valerie-complex-microaggressions-marred-her-festival-experience-1235037273/

Finally, Anna caught up with See-Saw films’ Head of TV and Film for Australia, Liz Watts, for a chat about the business of Cannes, and how it informs the year ahead for the film industry.

Films mentioned in this episode include:
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, James Mangold, 2023
In Flames, Zarrar Kahn, 2023
The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed, Joanna Arnow, 2023
It’s Raining in the House, Paloma Sermon-Dai, 2022
If Only I Could Hibernate (Baavgai Bolohson), Zoljargal Purevdash, 2023
Tiger Stripes, Amanda Nell Eu, 2023
The Return or Homecoming (Le retour), Catherine Corsini, 2023
The Delinquents (Los delincuentes), Rodrigo Moreno, 2023
Nine Queens, Fabián Bielinsky, 2000
The Aura (El aura), Fabián Bielinsky, 2005
How to Have Sex, Molly Manning Walker, 2023
About Dry Grasses, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2023
The Old Oak, Ken Loach, 2023
La Chimera, Alice Rohrwacher, 2023
The Piano, Jane Campion, 1993
Titane, Julia Ducournau, 2021
Rosalie, Stéphanie Di Giusto, 2023
Fallen Leaves (Kuolleet Lehdet), Aki Kaurismäki, 2023
The Royal Hotel, Kitty Green, 2023
The New Boy, Warwick Thornton, 2023
Club Zero, Jessica Hausner, 2023

Television mentioned in this episode include:
Succession, 2018–2023

Also mentioned in this episode:
BFI partners with Diversity in Cannes to celebrate Black women filmmakers during the Cannes Film Festival: https://www.bfi.org.uk/news/bfi-diversity-cannes-black-women-filmmakers
The Palm Dog Awards: https://www.palmdog.com/

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