Cannes. Days of Darkness.

"Days of Darkness, Denys Arcand's follow-up to the Oscar-nominated The Barbarian Invasions, isn't as smooth as that film - but it's as bizarre and inventive a movie as you could ask for," writes James Rocchi at Cinematical.

"Playing out of competition at Cannes, Days of Darkness is a perverse and busy mix of American Beauty, Brazil, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and many other influences that manages to include blunt drama, razor-sharp social commentary, broad comedy, sexual frankness and sweeping musical numbers. It's like that slightly lumpy knit sweater at the craft fair: it may not be machine-manufactured perfect, but you can tell just by looking at it that it was made by a human being."

Gregg Kilday talks with Arcand for the Hollywood Reporter.

Update, 5/28: "It's the close and uncomfortable proximity between this grey man's fantasies and the ugly banality of life that makes the film so compellingly true," writes James Christopher in the London Times.

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Cannes @ 60. Index.

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Posted by dwhudson at May 26, 2007 3:45 PM