Film show: Wes Anderson returns with ‘The Phoenician Scheme'
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Fresh from the Cannes film festival, our critic Ben Croll and Dheepthika Laurent look at the latest film releases, starting with Wes Anderson's star-studded whimsical film, "The Phoenician Scheme".
They also look at "Hot Milk", a film adaptation of a best-selling novel by Deborah Levy about a controlling mother-daughter relationship and "Another End", the sci-fi romantic drama featuring Gael Garcia Bernal.
We end with "Winged Migration", the Oscar nominated French nature documentary that was released in 2001 and spectacularly followed the migration of a flock of birds. Its re-release hopes to find fans among a new generation of cinemagoers.
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