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Cannes 2012: The Dream and the Silence – review

24 May 2012 5:34 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

While director Jaime Rosales doesn't make things easy for his audience, this rewarding and cerebral film lingers in the mind

The Spanish director Jaime Rosales is one of the most interesting and valuable film-makers at this year's Cannes. He's a director who first came to notice here with his deeply disturbing 2003 film The Hours of the Day, and then his Solitary Fragments, about the Madrid bombings, in 2007, a movie that sadly never found its way to the UK. His work has become steadily more experimental and demanding. Bullet in the Head, in 2008, was a mysterious, almost wordless movie in which the characters were filmed from afar, as if under surveillance. Now The Dream and the Silence arrives in Cannes, and in many ways it is his most difficult, and yet rewarding film: a work that lingers in the mind.

Rosales sure doesn't make things easy for his audience. The Dream »

- Peter Bradshaw

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Daily Briefing. Cinema Scope 50

20 April 2012 10:43 AM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »

Yesterday was all about the Cannes lineup, so we've got quite a bit of news to catch up with today. First and foremost, Cinema Scope has relaunched its site with a healthy selection of pieces from Issue 50, which cinephiles lucky enough to be holding a print copy have been talking about for weeks now. Editor Mark Peranson: "So to commemorate 50 issues, I came up with the silly (not stupid) idea of deciding on the best 50 filmmakers currently working under the age of 50 (or the top, or the greatest — I've spent far too much time pondering this silly adjective). I'm anticipating heaps of criticism for this in the blogosphere, but I hope this leads to a little discussion outside of the pages of this magazine, and provides a snapshot of where cinema finds itself today."

20 of those 50 pieces are online. You'll find, for example, Raya Martin on Carlos Reygadas (and »

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This week's new film events

13 April 2012 4:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Bradford International Film Festival

With 27 premieres, guests including Ray Winstone and Barbara Windsor, and more sub-strands than a macrame spaghetti holder, this festival packs it in. Highlights include Whit Stillman's lovable college satire Damsels In Distress, Indonesian martial arts epic The Raid and Samsara, another epic documentary from Ron "Baraka" Fricke. But it's really a case of pick your speciality: new American indies; European cinema; horror; Looney Tunes – all are well represented here. And not forgetting a 60th-anniversary tribute to the triple-screen Cinerama format at the traditional Widescreen Weekend.

Various venues, Thu to 29 Apr

Argentine Film Festival, London

It's fairly obvious even to those who have holed themselves up in cinemas for months on end that Anglo-Argentine relations might not be at a political high right now. But perhaps culture could be the antidote to all the Falklands-throwback sabre-rattling. This is Britain's first film festival dedicated solely to the country, »

- Steve Rose

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