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☆ ‘The Beasts’ Review: Rich Soil for a Thriller Movie
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Kyle Smith | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Luis Zahera and Denis Ménochet Photo: Greenwich EntertainmentIn “The Beasts,” a genial farmer named Antoine is trying to make a living selling tomatoes and other produce in farmer’s markets in Galicia in the Spanish countryside. So why do two brothers from a neighboring parcel of land seem eager to launch a vendetta against him? It isn’t till the middle of the film that we come to recognize that the villains of the piece have an unnervingly valid complaint.

Persons: Luis Zahera, Denis Ménochet, ”, Antoine Organizations: Greenwich Entertainment Locations: Galicia, Spanish

☆ Cannes jury president to striking Hollywood writers: 'Yeah, go!'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/4] The 76th Cannes Film Festival - Press conference of the jury - Cannes, France, May 16, 2023. Jury President Ruben Ostlund and jury member Brie Larson attend a press conference. REUTERS/Yara NardiCANNES, May 16 (Reuters) - Swedish director Ruben Ostlund, who heads the jury awarding the Cannes Film Festival's top award this year, expressed solidarity with striking Hollywood film and TV writers on Tuesday, saying industrial action was the only way to change work conditions. "It's great that people have a strong collegial feeling so you can go out and have a strike. Top executives close to the discussions have told Reuters that the strike could continue into the summer and possibly beyond.

“One thing is that this will be the first year in the history of the Cannes Film Festival when the publicists will have no rumors to tell to each other,” Ostlund said. In Ostlund’s films, which skewer class and social hypocrisies, any character who made a vow like that would wind up doing the opposite. But don’t expect the top prizewinner or any of the other awards to be his choices alone. Damián Szifron, from Argentina, is best known for his comic anthology feature “Wild Tales,” which showed in competition in 2014. And the Moroccan filmmaker Maryam Touzani was here last year with “The Blue Caftan,” which showed in the festival’s Un Certain Regard section.

In TV, the top 10 list ranges from the indefinable second season of “The White Lotus” to laugh-out-loud comedies and smoldering fantasy shows. “Catch the Fair One” is available on Hulu and various video-on-demand platforms. “Paris, 13th District” is available on Amazon Prime Video and various video-on-demand platforms. “Peter Von Kant” is available on various video-on-demand platforms. “Tár” is available on various video-on-demand platforms.

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