Cannes Review: With Coward, Lukas Dhont Sets Queer Love Story In Trenches of WWI
The Film Stage [Unofficial]
May 23, 2026
Cinema has taken viewers to the trenches of World War I so often that audiences might as well have formed sensory memories of a throat-clenching terror, the screams drowned by a sudden explosion and ears ringing. It’s all artificial, of course, but film’s empathy machine is perfectly suited for such participatory experiences from the safety […]
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