Clio Barnard Film Wins Cannes Audience Award
Clio Barnard's film, "I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning," has won the People's Choice Audience Award at the Cannes Directors' Fortnight. The film is described as a social-realist drama.
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‘I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning’ Review: Clio Barnard Returns With a Clunky Social-Realist Weepie About Five Friends in Birmingham
The group of lads at the center of Clio Barnard’s “I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning” dance their way through addiction, housing precarity, class tensions and good old romantic betrayal. In theory, the British director’s fifth feature — premiered in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes — is a film of big, bubbling emotions and anti-capitalist rage. […]
By Guy Lodge
Read full article →Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Winners: Clio Bernard’s ‘I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning’ Scoops People’s Choice Audience Award
UK director Clio Bernard has clinched the People’s Choice Audience Award at parallel Cannes section Directors’ Fortnight. Starring Anthony Boyle, Joe Cole, Jay Lycurgo, Daryl McCormack and Lola Petticrew and adapted from the book of the same name by Keiran Goddard, I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning. It follows childhood friends Patrick, Shiv, Rian, Oli, and […]
By Melanie Goodfellow
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