Cannes Review: Left-Handed Girl
Reporting from Cannes, Shannon Cotter watches 'Left-Handed Girl' unfurl with quiet force, a luminous, street-level portrait of survival and shame in modern-day Taipei.
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Cork writer, critic and correspondent Shannon Cotter divides her time between the banks of the Lee and the red carpets and darkened cinemas of Cannes, London, and Venice.
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Cannes Review: Sound of Falling
Shannon Cotter reports from Cannes, where Mascha Schilinski’s German epic 'Sound of Falling' premiered in the Official Selection. Spanning four generations of a single household, this film steers the director into a whole new league.
Cannes Review: Two Prosecutors
Cannes critic and correspondent Shannon Cotter looks at Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s Cannes entry 'Two Prosecutors', a harrowing, engrossing look at the state of Russia during Stalin’s Great Purge.
Cannes Review: Honey Don’t!
Reporting from the sun-drenched French Riviera, our Cannes critic and correspondent Shannon Cotter catches Honey Don’t! on the big screen.
Cannes Reviews: Partir un Jour (Leave One Day)
From the sunny French Riviera, our Cannes critic and correspondent Shannon Cotter braves the darkness to give you her take on Amélie Bonnin’s debut film 'Partir un Jour' ('Leave One Day')
Review: Another Look at On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
Shannon Cotter hatches her verdict in her review of 'On Becoming a Guinea Fowl'.