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Cannes 2008 / Critics’ Week

8 articles available in total starting from 24/04/2008. Last article published on 23/05/2008.

Snow scoops Grand Prize 2008

The prize list for the 47th Critics’ Week is dominated by European films, including top winner Snow, the debut feature by Bosnian director Aida Begic (see news). Produced by Mamafilm in...  

23/05/2008 | Cannes 2008 | Critics’ Week

Meier’s Home unveiled on Croisette

Ursula Meier’s debut narrative feature Home had a special screening yesterday in the Critics’ Week at Cannes. This Swiss/French/Belgian co-production – starring Isabelle Huppert and Olivier...  

19/05/2008 | Cannes 2008 | Critics’ Week

The young girl and the Grown Ups

Seventeen-year-old Jeanne is a good girl. It’s the summer holidays: a time for travels, discoveries and the first flutterings of the heart. But Jeanne wants to escape from her overly protective...  

19/05/2008 | Cannes 2008 | Critics’ Week/France

Directorial trio back with burlesque Rumba

A failed suicide, leg amputation, amnesia, job loss, a burned-out house, a punch-up, as well as laughter and poetry all combine in Rumba, the second Belgian/French feature by Dominique Abel, Fiona...  

17/05/2008 | Cannes 2008 | Critics’ Week/Belgium

Life and emptiness in Better Things

Better Things deals with shocking subject matter in a sophisticated style. Opening with a death by drug overdose and infused with a mournful atmosphere, this debut feature by the UK’s Duane...  

17/05/2008 | Cannes 2008 | Critics’ Week/UK

The Stranger in Me: haunting look at post-natal depression

"I wanted him to go away. I thought my milk was poison." Bold director Emily Atef (Berlin-born Franco-Iranian) plunged viewers into an ultra-realistic portrayal of the horrors of post-natal...  

16/05/2008 | Cannes 2008 | Critics’ Week/Germany

Love is in the air in Moscow, Belgium

A supermarket car park, a minor car crash and a thundering argument between a woman left by her husband and a stubborn lorry driver, a former alcoholic whose only reminder of his ex-partner is a...  

15/05/2008 | Cannes 2008 | Critics’ Week/Belgium

"A new wave of film talent" in Europe

Young European directors dominate the 47th International Critics’ Week (SIC), which will be held from May 15-23 as part of the 61st Cannes Film Festival. Unveiled at midday today at the Paris...  

24/04/2008 | Cannes 2008 | Critics’ Week

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