Also too good to pass up: Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable, a striking documentary profile of one of the
strongest practitioners of urban street photography, directed by Sasha Waters Freyer, Apr. 15; Godard Mon Amour,
director Michel Hazanavicius» cool, dramatized portrait of iconic French
auteur Jean - Luc Godard (Louis Garrel), as told by Godard's one - time wife, Anne Wiazemsky, Apr. 15; and, from Japanese master Koreeda Hirokazu, The Third Murder, a chambered nautilus of a murder mystery, starring Fukuyama Masaharu and Yakusho Kôji, Apr. 6.
Every element of Jenkins» story works, an outstanding screenplay bolstered by a
strong ensemble of actors, masterfully orchestrated by this outstanding
auteur,» said Black Reel Awards founder and Executive
Director, Tim Gordon.
As I write this Thursday afternoon, we are still waiting to see two
strong Palme contenders: The Wild Pear Tree by Turkish
auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan, a Cannes favourite who took the top prize in 2014 with Winter Sleep; and Lebanese
director Nadine Labaki's Capernaum, titled for a Biblical town where Jesus Christ is said to have performed miracles, which is getting good advance buzz for its story about an unhappy boy launching a lawsuit against the adults who vex him.