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Cannes 2021: “Cinema is not dead”

The Cannes Film Festival may have moved from its pre-COVID May dates and will instead take place in person from July 6-17, but the return to tradition was apparent when festival president Pierre Lescure and director Thierry Fremaux announced the line-up of 63 films from the Normandie Theater in Paris with the poignant opening statement: “Cinema is not dead”. A French-made (albeit English-language) film will open the 74th annual edition on July 6 at the Palais du Festival.
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Sundance 2021: Cusp

With the mainstreaming of nonfiction narratives and the expansion in streaming platform options, the last two decades or so have seen an explosion in documentaries chronicling precocious overachievers, from Jeffrey Blitz’s Oscar-nominated Spellbound all the way up to and including several new offerings at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Cusp, on the other hand, co-directed by Parker Hill and Isabel Bethencourt, is an arresting work of underclass portraiture that exists on the opposite end of this adolescent spectrum, centering not on honor roll students but rather on kids with a certain amount of trauma and an even greater amount of uncertainty about what their futures could or should hold.