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Cannes 2006 / Critics Week

10 articles available in total starting from 26/04/2006. Last article published on 26/05/2006.

Grand Prix for Les amitiés maléfiques

Europe made a clean sweep at this year’s 45th International Critics’ Week awards ceremony yesterday evening. The Grand Prix was awarded to French director Emmanuel Bourdieu for her second feature,...  

26/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Critics’ Week | Awards

Jimmy the Elephant in the footsteps of Fritz the Cat

Adult-oriented animated features have been popular choices this year for opening and closing sidebar sections at Cannes: after Denmark’s Princess, which opened the Director’s Fortnight, Free...  

26/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Critics Week | Norway

Nocturnes pour le roi de Rome: The glow of images

Jean-Charles Fitoussi is no stranger to French cinema. His first feature, The Days I Don’t Exist (Les jours où je n'existe pas), a laconic and enchanting fable that recounts the story of a man...  

25/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Critics’ Week | France

Fresh Air or aesthetic despair

A mixed reception met Critics’ Week title Fresh Air this afternoon. The film marks the feature debut of Hungarian director Ágnes Kocsis, who didn’t make it easy for herself by exploring difficult...  

24/05/2006 | Cannes 2006 | Critics’ Week

Komma: The beauty and the beast

Preceding the official competition screening of The Weakest Are Always Right by Lucas Belvaux , it was up to Martine Doyen to represent Belgium at the Cannes Film Festival, with her first feature,...  

22/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Critics’ Week | Belgium

Black Kafkaesque humour for The Bothersome Man

There was a hard-hitting and well-received entry today from Norway’s Jens Lien in the Critics’ Week competition. Three years after his first feature, Jonny Vang, the former rock star presented The...  

20/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Critics’ Week | Norway

Soul Kicking, words like stones

"A modern adaptation of Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck", is how Pierre Murat, one of the Critics’ Week programmers, defined it before its screening. And, in effect, Soul Kicking (I Psihi Sto Stoma) by...  

19/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Critics Week | Greece, Cyprus

Pingpong: A bitter family portrait

A film with an insidiously corrosive atmosphere under a summer sun was the highlight of today’s Critics‘ Week programme, with the screening of Pingpong, a promising debut feature by German...  

19/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Critics'Week | Germany

Literary microcosm and evil friendships

"Why do some people write? Because they don’t have enough character not to write". In exploring the possibilities of this quote by Austria’s Karl Kraus (1874-1936), French director Emmanuel...  

18/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Critics’ Week | France

Europe dominates Critics’ Week

European directors dominate the seven-strong competition line-up of the 45th International Critics’ Week (SIC) at next month's Cannes Film Festival. Five European films will be presented in the...  

26/04/2006 | Cannes 2006 | Critics’ Week

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