Jeremy Smith

BENICIO TRIUMPHS, BUT CANTET CARRIES CANNES

It’s a decision guaranteed to drive Jeffrey Wells to prose-sputtering fulmination: Laurent Cantet’s docudrama The Class has outmaneuvered Steven Soderbergh’s four-hour, two-part epic Che for the Palme d’Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. The Class was the final in-competition film to screen (often an advantageous position as far as the top awards are concerned), … Continue reading