‘Clara Sola’ Film Review: Is This a Quiet, Mystical Drama or a Costa Rican ‘Carrie?’

Luciana Alvarado took advantage of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) rule that now allows athletes to protest for a passionate cause. Right after finishing her floor routine, the 18-year-old sport star wrapped up by taking a knee and lifting her fist in support of Black Lives Matter and demand justice and equal rights to Black and Brown communities.

Black Lives Matter movement, taking a knee and tilting her head back with her fist raised towards the sky. The 18-year-old, who is the first gymnast from Costa Rica to qualify for the Olympics, told The Associated Press it was a deliberate decision.Alvarado said she wanted to highlight equality and treating others with respect and dignity.

for everyone but it is about everyone – what we’re doing here on this earth and the spirits with whom we share it for whatever transient, ungraspable time we’re here. It’s not the sort of thing that needs poster quotes and star ratings.

quartier.We follow Emilie, played in a memorable debut by Lucie Zhang, who is third generation Chinese; the character works in a call center and lives in the apartment of her ailing grandmother, who is now in a nursing home.

not to show a wrenching parent-child separation?But you also wonder if there couldn’t have been a way to tell this story that could hang onto the lyricism and the vivid sense of place that initially distinguished “Blue Bayou,” while ditching some of the melodrama that eventually takes it over. But make no mistake, they’ll be breaking out the tissues when Focus Features puts “Blue Bayou” in U.S.

EXCLUSIVE: Oscilloscope Laboratories has swooped on North American rights to Costa Rican-Swedish filmmaker Nathalie Álvarez Mesén’s debut feature Clara Sola here in Cannes.

very Wes Andersonny? Heck, no.You wouldn’t expect anything less from “The French Dispatch,” which opened in the Main Competition section of the Cannes Film Festival on Monday.

not Jewish. (This is a detail from real life: Wéber’s mother really did have many fake passports designed to obscure her Jewish identity.) “We were Jewish when we couldn’t be,” Lena moans.

TheWrap’s Ben Croll calling it “a spectacularly misjudged mix of humanitarian intentions and gonzo-terrible execution.” And that means that “Flag Day,” which premiered on Saturday in the Grand Theatre Lumiere, had to be not just Penn’s return to Cannes, but his return to form – which, in a way, it is.While the film sometimes struggles with disparate tones, it’s a solid, subtle drama that opts in most cases for restraint over excess.