The Film Comment Podcast

It’s Cannes, day nine! FC Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Rapold is joined by Justin Chang, film critic for the Los Angeles Times; Mara Gourd-Mercado, general director of Montreal doc-fest RIDM; and Eric Hynes, FC contributor and film programmer at the Museum of the Moving Image. The writers and programmers discuss David Robert Mitchell’s California pop-culture noir pastiche Under the Silver Lake; Lee Chang-dong’s Haruki Murakami adaptation Burning; Alice Rohrwacher’s magical realist family farm drama Lazzaro felice; Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt’s ironic psychosexual melodrama Diamantino; and Laetitia Carton’s documentary Le Grand Bal.

Show Notes

It’s Cannes, day nine! FC Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Rapold is joined by Justin Chang, film critic for the Los Angeles Times; Mara Gourd-Mercado, general director of Montreal doc-fest RIDM; and Eric Hynes, FC contributor and film programmer at the Museum of the Moving Image. The writers and programmers discuss David Robert Mitchell’s California pop-culture noir pastiche Under the Silver Lake; Lee Chang-dong’s Haruki Murakami adaptation Burning; Alice Rohrwacher’s magical realist family farm drama Lazzaro felice; Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt’s ironic psychosexual melodrama Diamantino; and Laetitia Carton’s documentary Le Grand Bal.

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