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Harlan Jacobson reports on the Sundance Film Festival 2016
Film Critic Harlan Jacobson reports from the Sundance Film Festival for The Philadelphia Inquirer
Cannes
FRIDAY May 15, 2015
The big question gets answered—sort of. How did Mad Max: Fury Road, the 4th installment in Australian director George Miller’s saga –which began in the 1980s with Mel Gibson--of life in a post apocalyptic world do with film critics at the 68th Cannes film festival here in the land of Cinema?
French film 'Dheepan' takes top prize at Cannes
CANNES - The French threw the world a film party and then ate the cherry on top of the dessert.
Dheepan - about a Tamil Tiger who quits the Sri Lankan revolution, creates a makeshift "family" with two other refugees, and flees to Paris, where he lands a job as a building superintendent in the lawless suburbs - took the Palme D'Or, the Golden Palm, at the 68th Cannes Film Festival Sunday night.
