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Cannes Film Festival 2022: Drama, Controversy, And Excitement

The 77th Cannes Film Festival faces challenges but offers a diverse lineup of films and discussions amidst global turmoil.

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What would cornered Trump do for Roy Cohn’s tough-guy dark arts now?

A film debuting at Cannes charts the young developer’s relationship with the legendarily machiavellian lawyer

The Guardian - US

The Apprentice: Holy Spider director is making new film about Donald Trump

Sebastian Stan will be playing a younger version of the New York mogul

Evening Standard

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Fans divided after first photos of Sebastian Stan playing Donald Trump emerge

‘Succession’s’ Jeremy Strong and ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’s’ Maria Bakalova will also appear in the film

The Independent UK

Hottie Sebastian Stan Will Play Trump In Biopic So Prepare To Have Confusing Feelings For Donald

Sebastian Stan has been cast as Donald Trump in an upcoming biopic about the American ex-President, which gives me weird feelings.

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Sebastian Stan to play Donald Trump alongside Succession’s Jeremy Strong in new film

The cast also includes Maria Bakalova as Trump’s first wife Ivana

The Independent UK

Donald Trump biopic: Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong and Maria Bakalova cast in The Apprentice

Stan, who recently played Tommy Lee in Pam & Tommy, will play the former US president in new film, joined by Strong as Roy Cohn and Bakalova as Ivana Trump

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Dancing, dating and death: the five best films added to US streaming this week

Highlights include Billy Eichner’s rom-com Bros, serial killer drama Holy Spider and troubling documentary Jesus Camp

The Guardian - US

In 'The Last of Us,' Ashley Johnson gave Ellie life. Here's why her casting was perfect

In "The Last of Us," nothing ushers in more devastation than desperate acts of love — not even mushroom zombies or government rebels.

Los Angeles Times

On my radar: Brix Smith’s cultural highlights

The ex-Fall guitarist on a compelling fashion rivalry, Björk’s latest masterpiece, and a surreal film moment she won’t forget

The Guardian - UK

Holy Spider – prurient Iranian serial killer drama

Based on the real-life case of a man who murdered 16 women, Ali Abbasi’s tense film feels at once timely and dehumanising

The Guardian - UK

Zar Amir Ebrahimi on fleeing Iran and her Cannes comeback: ‘If you lose everything, it’s easier to rise up’

Forced to leave Iran after an intimate video of her was leaked, Ebrahimi has rebuilt her career. Her latest film, for which she won best actress at Cannes, celebrates the defiance of women in her home country

The Guardian - UK

A man killed women he deemed 'immoral' — an Iranian film fictionalizes the story

The real-life "Spider Killer" murdered 16 women in Iran between 2000 and 2001. The case inspired Holy Spider, which has resonated abroad during a time of amplified state violence in Iran.

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Movie review: ‘Holy Spider’ weaves gripping tale of serial killer

Is murdering prostitutes in modern-day Iran the work of God? It is if you are the madman and religious fanatic carrying out a reign of serial-killer terror in the gripping and horrifying “Holy Spider” in the early 21-century city of Mashhad, the second most populous city in Iran and the…

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The Guardian - UK

Triangle of Sadness among leaders of European film award nominations

Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or winning satire is up for four awards, while Penélope Cruz and Paul Mescal feature in acting categories

Los Angeles Times

Review: The serial killer thriller ‘Holy Spider’ gets stuck in its own morally murky web

On April 8, 2002, Saeed Hanaei was executed for the murders of 16 women between 2000 and 2001 in the Iranian city of Mashhad. The media dubbed him the “Spider Killer” for the way he lured his victims into his lair — the same apartment he shared with his unsuspecting…

Salon

Iranian serial killer film "Holy Spider"

"To show the underbelly of a violent place, you can't do it with a feather pen," the filmmaker tells Salon

Reason

Review: Holy Spider

Death on wheels.

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The Independent UK

An exiled actress stars in a piercing portrait of Iran

Ninety-nine lashes and a prison sentence awaited Zar Amir Ebrahimi in 2008 when she decided to flee Iran

Evening Standard

Holy Spider at the London Film Festival movie review: Compelling but ultimately too thin

Holy Spider wants to tell a bigger story but gets too bogged down in the trappings of the serial killer genre

Al Jazeera

Iranian Zar Amir Ebrahimi wins best actress at Cannes

Ebrahimi won for Holy Spider in which she plays a journalist trying to solve serial murders of prostitutes in Mashhad.

Bangkok Post

Deep in the paradox

In Cairo, a religious student at the prestigious Al-Azhar Islamic University is recruited by secret police to infiltrate a Muslim Brotherhood cell. In Mashad, a holy city in Iran, a serial killer prowls a seedy suburb and strangles head-scarfed prostitutes. In the first film, bloodlust officials torture dissidents with abandon.…

The Guardian - UK

Holy Spider review – Iranian crime thriller takes real case and makes it implausible

Twenty years after a serial killer murdered 16 sex workers in Mashad, Ali Abbasi has made a fictionalised account of his capture and trial

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