German director Valeska Grisebach comes to Cannes in competition this year, nearly a decade after her Un Certain Regard entry Western, and the step up is well earned; The Dreamed Adventure — a title that doesn’t at all reflect the content — is a remarkable piece of work, a realist drama that homes in on a drab lawless town on the Bulgaria-Turkey border and somehow instils it with all the paranoid danger of Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil. Chief to its success is a powerhouse performance by Yana Radeva, who summons the spirit of Gena Rowlands in Gloria as a
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