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Cannes Film Festival · 2018

Cannes Film Festival 2018

Un Certain Regard

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18 films · 8 reviews

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The Angel (El Angel)

Review preview for The Angel

It should come as no surprise, given the kitsch and extravagant props and costumes, that the film has been co-produced by Pedro Almodovar and his brother Augustin.

Richard Mowe · 4 out of 5
The story of a real life teenage serial killer in Argentina.

(Country: Argentina, Spain; Year: 2018; Director: Luis Ortega; Writer: Serguio Olguín, Luis Ortega; Stars: Lorenzo Ferro, Chino Darin, Mercedes Moran, Cecilia Roth, Daniel Fanego, Luis Gnecco, Peter Lanzani)

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Angel Face (Gueule D'Ange)

A single mother meets somebody new in a nightclub and decides to abandon her eight-year-old daughter.

(Country: France; Year: 2018; Director: Vanessa Filho; Writer: Diastème, Vanessa Filho; Stars: Marion Cotillard, Alban Lenoir, Amélie Daure)

Border

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An original and highly ambitious premise that maintains its grip your attention and imagination.

Richard Mowe · 4 out of 5
When a border guard with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers encounters the first person she cannot prove is guilty, their relationship forces her to confront terrifying revelations about herself and humankind.

(Country: Sweden, Denmark; Year: 2018; Director: Ali Abbasi; Writer: John Ajvide Lindqvist, Abbasi, Isabella Eklöf, based on a story by John Ajvide Lindqvist; Stars: Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Viktor Åkerblom, Jörgen Thorsson)

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The Dead And the Others (Chuva E Cantoria Na Aldeia Dos Mortos)

An indigenous teen runs away to the city to avoid becoming a shaman.

(Director: Rene Nader Messora, Joao Salaviza)

Donbass

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Each successive scene hits you over the head with the ferocity of the action.

Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
In the Donbass, a region of Eastern Ukraine, a hybrid war takes place, involving an open armed conflict alongside killings and robberies on a mass scale perpetrated by separatist gangs.

(Country: Germany, Ukraine, France, Netherlands, Romania; Year: 2018; Director: Sergei Loznitsa; Writer: Sergei Loznitsa; Stars: Valeriu Andriutã, Boris Kamorzin, Sergey Kolesov, Georgiy Deliev, Sergey Russkin, Alexander Zamuraev, Konstantin Itunin, Irina Plesnyayeva, Vadim Dubovsky, Svetlana Kolesova, Evgeny Chistyakov, Valeriu Andriutã, Boris Kamorzin, Sergey Kolesov, Georgiy Deliev)

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Euphoria (Euforia)

Two brothers with very different personalities have to live together in Rome for a few weeks.

(Country: Italy; Year: 2018; Director: Valeria Golino; Writer: Valeria Golino, Francesca Marciano; Stars: Riccardo Scamarcio, Valerio Mastandrea, Isabella Ferrari , Valentina Cervi, Jasmine Trinca)

Friend (Rafiki)

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Touching and brave.

Richard Mowe · 4 out of 5
When they fall in love, two girls from rival families must choose between being together and being safe.

(Country: Kenya, South Africa; Year: 2018; Director: Wanuri Kahiu; Writer: Jenna Cato Bass, Wanuri Kahiu; Stars: Patricia Amira, Muthoni Gathecha, Jimmy Gathu, Nice Githinji, Charlie Karumi, Patricia Kihoro)

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The Gentle Indifference Of The World

After her father’s untimely death, Saltanat is forced to trade her idyllic countryside life for the cruel city... and she is followed by her loyal but penniless admirer.

(Country: Kazakhstan, France; Year: 2018; Director: Adilkhan Yerzhanov; Writer: Roelof Jan Minneboo, Adilkhan Yerzhanov)

Girl

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Directed with admirable understatement and restraint.

Richard Mowe · 4 out of 5
A teenage trans girl dreams of becoming a ballerina.

(Country: Belgium; Year: 2018; Director: Lukas Dhont; Writer: Lukas Dhont, Angelo Tijssens; Stars: Nele Hardiman, Victor Polster, Arieh Worthalter)

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The Harvesters

A teenager's comfortable life starts to unravel when his parents bring home an orphan.

(Country: South Africa; Year: 2018; Director: Etienne Kallos; Writer: Etienne Kallos)

In My Room

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Patrick Orth's cinematography gives this a beguiling warmth but it's really Löw's performance that makes it work.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
A bored man suddenly realises that everyone around him has disappeared and he isn't sure what happened.

(Country: Germany, Italy; Year: 2018; Director: Ulrich Köhler; Writer: Ulrich Köhler; Stars: Hans Löw, Elena Radonicich, Antonia Putiloff)

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Little Tickles (Les Chatouilles)

A dancer struggles to achieve her dreams after trauma in her childhood.

(Country: France; Year: 2018; Director: Andréa Bescond, Eric Métayer; Writer: Andréa Bescond; Stars: Andréa Bescond, Karin Viard, Clovis Cornillac)

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Review preview for Long Day's Journey Into Night

This is immersive cinema, designed to be experienced rather than just watched.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
A man returns to the town of his birth 12 years after having committed a still-unpunished murder. Memories of the enigmatic and beautiful woman for whom he killed resurface, confronting him with unbearable revelations.

(Country: China; Year: 2018; Director: Bi Gan; Writer: Bi Gan, Dong Jinsong; Stars: Tang Wei, Sylvia Chang, Huang Jue)

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Manto

A biopic of the writer Saadat Hasan Manto.

(Country: India; Year: 2018; Director: Nandita Das; Writer: Nandita Das; Stars: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Rishi Kapoor, Paresh Rawal, Purab Kohli, Rasika Dugal, Vijay Varma)

Murder Me, Monster (Muere, Monstro, Muere)

Rural police officer Cruz investigates the bizarre case of a headless woman’s body found in a remote region by the Andes Mountains. But her husband, the prime suspect, blames her death on a "monster".

(Country: Argentina, France, Chile; Year: 2018; Director: Alejandro Fadel; Writer: Alejandro Fadel; Stars: Esteban Bigliardi, Francisco Carrasco, Tania Casciani, Romina Iniesta, Victor Lopez, Sofia Palomino, Jorge Prado, Stéphane Rideau, Esteban Bigliardi, Francisco Carrasco, Tania Casciani, Romina Iniesta, Victor Lopez, Sofia Palomino, Jorge Prado)

My Favorite Fabric (Mon Tissu Préféré)

With tensions rising in pre-war Syria, a young woman dreams of escape through an arranged marriage to an American citizen - but does he prefer her sister?

(Country: France, Germany, Turkey; Year: 2018; Director: Gaya Jiji; Writer: Gaya Jiji, Eiji Yamazaki; Stars: Metin Akdülger, Manal Issa, Ula Tabari, Gaya Jiji)

Sextape (Des Bails De Rêve)

Review preview for Sextape

The exchanges all have the ring of truth.

Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
Two sisters plot blackmail.

(Country: France; Year: 2018; Director: Antoine Desrosieres; Writer: Antoine Desrosieres, Anne-Sophie Nanki; Stars: Souad Arsane, Inas Chanti, Loubna Abidar)

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Sofia

When a woman suddenly and unexpectedly gives birth, her two sisters have one night in which to find the father in order to save her from arrest.

(Year: 2018; Director: Meryem Benm'Barek; Writer: Famor Botero, Angelica Figueroa; Stars: Sara Elmhamdi Elalaoui, Sarah Perles, Hamza Khafif, Lubna Azabal, Faouzi Bensaidi, Nadia Niazi, Said Bey)