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...Sith might make it an anomaly amid the no-tech, paint-drying minimalism of the international art-film brigade. In other respects, Lucas' film was right in step with the tendencies of the most prominent movies here. If we see the Star Wars sextet as a single epic, then surely it is the saga of Darth Vader's rivalry with the son he had lost 20 years before. That was precisely the dominant motif of Cannes '05: fathers trying to reconnect with...
...Star Wars sextet as a single epic, then surely it is the saga of Darth Vader's rivalry with the son he had lost 20 years before. That was precisely the dominant motif of Cannes '05: fathers trying to reconnect with their sons
...Lang's epic poem of urban dystopia and class warfare set the standard for imagining the future-and how it might feel to be a part of it. Even now, in the age of CGI, his dark vision remains unsurpassed...
Kieslowski illustrates each of the Ten Commandments in an hour-long story. Originally made for Polish TV, those tales, whispering instead of thundering their morals, form, as a movie, a tender and unpretentious epic about ordinary people striving to be good in an indifferent world...
...sexy Mexican Battle in Heaven. A third, as Cannes' official announcer Patrick Fabre told me at a swank party where we sat at the same table with Toni Morrison and Morgan Freeman (have I broken the record for name-dropping in a subordinate clause?), is the quasi-Kurdish war epic Kilometre Zero. That movie has an image that is pure Kusturica: of a Kurdish soldier so eager to get out of the Iraqi army that during one trench battle he sticks a foot up into the firing line to get it blown...