Nik Grozdanovic
72 articles written by Nikola Grozdanovic
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Maps To The Stars (Cannes Review)
Welcome to Hollywood, where you steal spotlights at the age four, go into rehab before you hit puberty, hit menopause by the time you’re 23, and become a desensitized pill-popping, therapy-addicted, fame-crazed relic nearing death by the time you’ve...
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Cannes 2014: The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby – Them
The roller coaster Ned Benson has been experiencing with his first feature would make anyone’s head dizzy. Last year at TIFF, he premiered his film, The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby, as a check-this-out-and-let-me-know-what-you-think concept which people have since been...
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Cannes 2014: Amour Fou
There is something insatiable about Jessica Hausner’s Un Certain Regarde entry Amour Fou, it’s just hard to pinpoint what exactly. While the film sinks in with the weight of a feather, the feeling of satisfaction still dominates the sense...
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Cannes 2014: The Blue Room
What starts off as mildly interesting ends up being nauseatingly dull in Mathieu Amalric‘s The Blue Room. Julien (Amalric) is a married man, with one daughter, who was something of a player back in the old days. When one...
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Cannes 2014: Party Girl
When you’re dealing with a weak protagonist, and a storyline as flat as a crepe (minus all the deliciousness,) there ain’t nothing coming to save your picture. Un Certain Regarde opener Party Girl, directed by no less than three...
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Mr. Turner (Cannes Review)
It’s been too long since we’ve had a Mike Leigh film, but four years is only long with Leigh because the gaps between his movies are felt more heavily than with most. Reviewers have to try and stay as...
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Gloria
It’s been over a year since Sebastian Lelio’s Gloria wowed festival goers at the 2013 Berlinale, where it picked up multiple awards and turned the switch on the electric current that’s been heating art-house circles ever since. Having done...
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Cannes 2014: Director’s Fortnight & Critic’s Week
Barring any outside chances of more additions (…Roy Andersson, we’re waiting…) from Fremaux and co., this year’s Cannes lineup is complete. We’re playing a little catch up with the news, so you may have already heard, but the two...
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Cannes 2014: Media Guide
Unless you’ve managed to live without the internet since April 16th, the question “How do you feel about the Cannes lineup this year?” must have surfed its way to – or from- you by now. Yes, cinephiles around the...
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Nymphomaniac Vol. 2
A complimentary companion to Volume 1 while distinctly upping the ante in both shock and style.
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Enemy
Denis Villeneuve has been keeping himself very busy. At the Toronto International Film Festival last year, it wasn’t enough that he had the tightly wound Prisoners making its world premiere, but he managed to have another film finished in...
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Nymphomaniac Volume 1
You know a Lars Von Trier movie is good when it feels like you’ve just spent two educationally arousing hours in the university for the cinematically gifted. As soon as Von Trier announced that his next movie was going...