‘The Year of the Everlasting Storm’ Film Review: Bold Anthology Examines Life in the Pandemic

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticCANNES — The awards show for the 2021 Cannes Film Festival competition is underway.Jury president Spike Lee presided over a majority-female group that included French-Senegalese actor-director Mati Diop, American actor-filmmaker Maggie Gyllenhaal, Austrian director Jessica Hausner, French actor-helmer Mélanie Laurent, Brazilian helmer Kleber Mendonça Filho, French actor Tahar Rahim, South Korean actor Song Kang-ho and cult French singer Mylene Farmer.The prizes

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.

Manori Ravindran International EditorNeon will donate to Direct Relief and its global COVID-19 relief efforts as part of its release of “The Year of the Everlasting Storm.”The anthology feature world premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on July 14 as part of the Special Screening section, and will be released theatrically later this year.News of the distributor’s donation comes as a number of wealthy countries were able to send delegations to the Cannes Film Festival, which ends this weekend,

The Robert Bresson quote that opens the anthology film “Year of the Everlasting Storm” — “you don’t create by adding, but by taking away” — makes a tidy adage of the time-honored idea that deprivation breeds innovation.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticWhat did you do during the coronavirus lockdown of 2020? Grow a beard? Make bread? Write the Great American Novel? For creative types cooped up during the pandemic, the pressures to adapt to the moment felt enormous, but so did the limitations.Premiering at Cannes 2021, “The Year of the Everlasting Storm” springs from those competing and seemingly contradictory reactions — to express oneself, or to retreat inward and wait it out — empowering seven filmmakers from

Ethan Shanfeld Neon has partnered with Direct Relief for its upcoming anthology film “The Year of the Everlasting Storm,” and it will donate to the organization’s worldwide COVID-19 relief efforts.The feature, which will be released theatrically later this year, is making its debut at Cannes Film Festival today as part of the Special Screening section.With its donation, Neon aims to support real-time COVID-19 direct response through the distribution of funds, tests, supplies and vaccines to

Tom Quinn’s Neon is partnering with Direct Relief for its upcoming anthology feature The Year Of The Everlasting Storm, and will donate to the humanitarian organization’s Covid-19 relief efforts. The title, which is one of Neon’s first original productions, is having its World Premiere at the Cannes Film Festival today as part of the fest’s Special Screening section and will be released theatrically later this year.

Turnstile have shared their new collaboration with Blood Orange – you can hear ‘Alien Love Call’ below.The track is taken from the Baltimore band’s new album ‘Glow On’, which was previously announced via billboard teasers, and is set for release on August 27 via Roadrunner Records.‘Alien Love Call’ is one of two Blood Orange collaborations on ‘Glow On’, with Turnstile sharing the first today (July 14) to formally launch their new album.A video for ‘Alien Love Call’ has also been released,

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.

Halsey has announced a new film titled If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power, a companion piece to their upcoming album of the same name – check out the trailer below.Announced last month, the pop star’s fourth studio effort has been produced by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross and is said to be the singer’s “punk rock” record.The album’s cover art and release date (August 27) were revealed last week with a 13-minute visual that was shot at New York’s Metropolitan Museum Of Art.

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.