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> [There are some films that arrive here from the international festival circuit almost incandescent with self-importance. They hover into the cinema in a kind of floating trance at how challenging and moving they are. They are films with a profound…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-bradshaw/there-are-some-films-that-arrive-here-from-the-international-festival/)

[Peter Bradshaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-bradshaw/)

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## More by Peter Bradshaw

> [Jonathan Coe's genial, likeable novel can only be described as a kind of lit-prog-rock concept album... Coe recreates the period with such loving accuracy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-bradshaw/jonathan-coe-s-genial-likeable-novel-can-only-be-described-as-a-kind/)

[Peter Bradshaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-bradshaw/)

> [Thirteen years after Basic Instinct, Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone) is now in London, and is going out with a footballer played by Stan Collymore,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-bradshaw/thirteen-years-after-basic-instinct-catherine-tramell-sharon-stone-is/)

[Peter Bradshaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-bradshaw/)

> [This is what we have all come to Cannes for: for something different, experimental, a tilting at windmills, a great big pole-vault over the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-bradshaw/this-is-what-we-have-all-come-to-cannes-for-for-something-different/)

[Peter Bradshaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-bradshaw/)

> [Sunshine takes its intelligent and honourable place in the history of grownup science fiction on the screen and on the page: a genre that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-bradshaw/sunshine-takes-its-intelligent-and-honourable-place-in-the-history-of/)

[Peter Bradshaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-bradshaw/)

> [ What could have been simply bizarre, sentimental or contrived here becomes an utterly absorbing love story. \[...\] This is early days in the festival,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-bradshaw/what-could-have-been-simply-bizarre-sentimental-or-contrived-here/)

[Peter Bradshaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-bradshaw/)

> [There are some films that arrive here from the international festival circuit almost incandescent with self-importance. They hover into the cinema in a kind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-bradshaw/there-are-some-films-that-arrive-here-from-the-international-festival/)

[Peter Bradshaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-bradshaw/)

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