Cannes Film Festival: Les Fantômes d’Ismaël – Arnaud Desplechin
Arnaud Desplechin’s Les Fantômes d’Ismaël kicked off this year’s Cannes Film Festival with a whimper rather than a bang. The film is a patchwork of ideas pulled from the director’s previous work and feels uneven despite excellent performances from the three main leads – Mathieu Amalric, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Marion Cotillard. Are the references to Desplechin’s…