Cannes film festival: This tremendously alarming drama from Rodrigo Sorogoyen is an meditation on male auteurs entirely without sentimentality
Javier Bardem gives his scariest performance since No Country For Old Men in this disquieting new film about emotional abuse from Spanish director Rodrigo Sorogoyen, who made 2023 rural noir shocker The Beasts.
It’s a film about a film-shoot – often the occasion for whimsy or sentimentality or woozy rapture about the magic of cinema. Not here. And given this and Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland, this year could be the Cannes of father-daughter dysfunction.
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Former Real Madrid manager is Chelsea’s first choice
Chelsea are on the verge of appointing Xabi Alonso on a four-year contract after reaching an agreement in principle with the Spaniard to become their new manager. Alonso, who has been out of work since leaving Real Madrid in January, is their preferred candidate.
Talks have accelerated this week and an announcement could be made before Chelsea host Tottenham in the Premier League on Tuesday.
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Ho wacht ho en dan gaan we nu naar Italië, waar het helemaal is misgegaan in Modena. Een man is met een auto op mensen ingereden en heeft daarna mensen die hem tegen wilden houden neergestoken. Uiteindelijk werd hij door omstanders overmeesterd. Er zouden acht mensen gewond zijn, van wie twee ernstig. De dader is inmiddels aangehouden. Volgens de Gazetta di Modena gaat het om een 31-jarige man van Marokkaanse afkomst die in Bergamo is geboren en in Ravarino, in de buurt van Modena, woont.