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Cannes Film Festival · 2018

Cannes Film Festival 2018

Critics' Week

Programme

22 films · 6 reviews

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Amor, Avenidas Novas

Manel idealizes love, inspired by his parents' relationship. Out of compassion, he hands over his double mattress to Nicolau. On the way back he invades a film set where a group of young women count among the film crew. One of them is Rita. The encounter has a profound effect on Manel who sinks into a magical feeling of passion.

(Country: Portugal; Year: 2018; Director: Duarte Coimbra)

Short

Chris The Swiss

In the middle of the war in Croatia, a young journalists' body was found dressed in the uniform of an international mercenary group. This documentary follows his sister's attempts to unravel his story.

(Country: Switzerland; Year: 2018; Director: Anja Kofmel; Writer: Anja Kofmel)

Competition

Diamantino (Tristes Monroes)

Review preview for Diamantino

The film carries a message about the importance of tolerance, love and a healthy dose of silliness in the face of the darker elements of modern life.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
Diamantino was once the greatest football player in Portugal. Now, in the middle of the worst crisis of his life, he decides to fill his void by adopting a refugee boy.

(Country: Portugal; Year: 2017; Director: Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt; Writer: Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt; Stars: Joana Barrios, Abílio Bejinha, Chico Chapas)

Full review

Competition

Exemplary Citizen (Mo-Bum-Shi-Min)

(Country: South Korea; Year: 2018; Director: Kim Cheol-Hwi)

Short

Fugue (Fuga)

Review preview for Fugue

Smoczynska remains one to watch. She has a signature style and an ability to generate a sense of odd estrangement from virtually nothing.

Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
A woman suffering from memory loss is reunited with the family she can't remember having.

(Country: Poland, Czech Republic, Sweden; Year: 2018; Director: Agnieszka Smoczyńska; Writer: Gabriela Muskala; Stars: Gabriela Muskala, Lukasz Simlat, Malgorzata Buczkowska, Piotr Skiba)

Full review

Competition

Guy

A man learns that he is the son of a famous performer.

(Country: France; Year: 2018; Director: Alex Lutz; Writer: Alex Lutz; Stars: Alex Lutz, Tom Dingler, Pascale Arbillot, Dani, Brigitte Roüan, Andy Picci)

Closing night

Hector Malot: The Last Day Of The Year (Ektoras Malo : I teleftea mera tis chronias)

(Country: Greece; Year: 2018; Director: Jacqueline Lentzou)

Short

Normal (Ya Normalniy)

(Country: Russia; Year: 2018; Director: Michael Borodin)

Short

One Day (Egy Nap)

A day in the life of a language teacher whose husband cheats on her.

(Country: Hungary; Year: 2018; Director: Zsófia Szilágyi; Writer: Réka Mán-Várhegyi, Zsófia Szilágyi; Stars: Zsófia Szamosi, Leó Füredi, Ambrus Barcza, Zorka Varga-Blaskó)

Competition

Our Struggles (Nos Batailles)

A man who has dedicated his career to fighting injustice must re-evaluate everything when his wife leaves and he has to take care of the kids.

(Country: Belgium, France; Year: 2018; Director: Guillaume Senez; Stars: Laetitia Dosch, Laure Calamy, Lucie Debay, Marc Robert)

Special screening

Pauline Asservie

(Country: France; Year: 2018; Director: Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet)

Short

La Persistente

(Country: France; Year: 2018; Director: Camille Lugan)

Short

Rapaz (Raptor)

(Country: France; Year: 2018; Director: Felipe Gálvez)

Short

Sauvage (Full Frontal, Savage)

Review preview for Sauvage

Showing a keen understanding of the nature of sex work and of life on the streets, Vidal-Naquet carries us through several days in Léo's life in a observational, non-judgemental way.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
A young male sex worker searches for love and companionship.

(Year: 2017; Director: Camille Vidal-Naquet; Writer: Camille Vidal-Naquet; Stars: Félix Maritaud, Eric Bernard, Nicolas Dibla, Philippe Ohrel, Pavle Dragas, Mehdi Boudina)

Full review

Competition

Schächer

(Country: Switzerland; Year: 2018; Director: Flurin Giger; Writer: Flurin Giger; Stars: Ernst Jacobi, Vilmar Bieri, Lisa Brand, Erika Engler, Levi Giger, Josef Rüttimann, Marcel Schnell, Niculin Rieder, Urs Hertner, Evan Reoch, Evelyn Aebli, Ernst Jacobi, Vilmar Bieri, Lisa Brand, Erika Engler)

Short

Shéhérazade

A young man fresh out of prison falls for a sex worker.

(Country: France; Year: 2018; Director: Jean-Bernard Marlin; Writer: Jean-Bernard Marlin, Catherine Paillé)

Special screening

Sir (Monsieur)

In Mumbai, Ratna, a young widow from the countryside, works as a servant for Ashwin, a son from a good family whose wedding has just been called off. As he’s trying to pull himself together, he starts to fall in love with Ratna. But these new feelings may not suit their social positions.

(Country: India, France; Year: 2018; Director: Rohena Gera; Writer: Rohena Gera; Stars: Tillotama Shome, Geetanjali Kulkarni, Rahul Vohra, Ahmareen Anjum, Vivek Gomber)

Competition

This Magnificent Cake! (Ce Magnifique Gâteau!)

Review preview for This Magnificent Cake!

Offering the comfort and reassurance of a Seventies children's TV programme, it takes us into the heat of darkness in a bumbling, offbeat way.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
A five-part anthology featuring a troubled king, a failed businessman and an army deserter in stories that reflect the cruelty of 19th Century colonialism, told using stop-motion puppets.

(Country: Belgium, France, Netherlands; Year: 2018; Director: Marc James Roels, Emma De Swaef; Writer: Marc James Roels, Emma De Swaef; Stars: Gaston Motambo, Wim Willaert, Goua Grovogui)

Full review

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The Tiger (Tiikeri)

(Country: Finland; Year: 2018; Director: Mikko Myllylahti)

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A Wedding Day (Un Jour De Mariage)

(Country: Algeria, France; Year: 2018; Director: Elias Belkeddar)

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Wildlife

Review preview for Wildlife

Landscape and music and everyday objects are used to splendid effect.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 4.5 out of 5
A portrait of a family in crisis.

(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Paul Dano; Writer: Paul Dano, Richard Ford, Zoe Kazan; Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Carey Mulligan, Ed Oxenbould, Bill Camp, Lexi Anastasia, Zoe Margaret Colletti, Travis W Bruyer, Mollie Milligan, JR Hatchett, Darryl Cox, Kami King, Cate Jones, Blaine Maye, Laurie Cummings, John Walpole)

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Opening night

Woman At War (Kona Fer í Stríð)

Review preview for Woman At War

This is joyful, beautiful, up-lifting - and bleak too, a clarion call to direct climate action at the personal and the political levels.

Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
A middle-aged woman declares war on the heavy industry in her small town, but everything changes when a Ukrainian orphan enters her life.

(Country: France, Iceland, Ukraine; Year: 2018; Director: Benedikt Erlingsson; Writer: Ólafur Egilsson, Benedikt Erlingsson; Stars: Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Jóhann Sigurðarson, Juan Camillo Roman Estrada, Jörundur Ragnarsson)

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Competition