Cannes. Three Monkeys.
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| Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog - film found this 5/26/2008 on daily.greencine.com [flag] |
"An ostensibly routine noir-style psychological thriller vaults into the realms of high art in competition contender Three Monkeys [ site ]," writes Jonathan Romney in Screen Daily .
"Cannes has been kind to Turkey's Nuri Bilge Ceylan in the past, with Uzak and Climates establishing his auteur credentials here in 2003 and 2006. His new film represents a bold departure from his ...
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Cannes 2008: The final word
Published 5/26/2008 by Peter Bradshaw at Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog - film
... classes either don't care, or are actively complicit in the corruption and cynicism involved. Sorrentino's film sheds a little more light on the higher political reaches. It is avowedly about the notorious politician Giulio Andreotto, and using Sorrentino's trademark stylisations of picture, sound, music and mood, creates a Jonsonian masque of paranoia, wit and despair. Both are outstanding films, and both will be must-see releases. Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Best Director award for Three Monkeys was something that's hard to quarrel with. This is a film-maker whose sheer cinematic ...
