Cannes. Nocturnes pour le roi de Rome.

When Jean-Charles Fitoussi took up residence at the Villa Médici late last year, he made Nocturnes pour le roi de Rome (Nocturnes for the King of Rome) on his mobile phone. "Overflowing with music and evanescent images, the film is an overwhelming meditation on memory," writes Anne Feullère at Cineuropa. An "old musician is full of wonder: 'Everything is perfect,' he says. The same grace marks the film from start to finish."

But Variety's Lisa Nesselson finds the Critics' Week special presentation "an experimental gamble that quickly falters."

Posted by dwhudson at May 28, 2006 8:32 AM