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Critics' Week


355 articles available in total starting from 24/05/2002. Last article published on 19/06/2025.

Review: Diamantino

Review: Diamantino

CANNES 2018: After several short films, Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt employ their fertile imaginations to create a nutty homage to innocence in an otherwise crazy world  

11/05/2018 | Cannes 2018 | Critics' Week

Benedikt Erlingsson  • Director

Interview: Benedikt Erlingsson • Director

“I wanted to make a feel-good film about climate change”

CANNES 2018: We talk to Icelandic director Benedikt Erlingsson about Woman at War, presented in the Cannes Critics’ Week  

11/05/2018 | Cannes 2018 | Critics’ Week

Camille Vidal-Naquet • Director

Interview: Camille Vidal-Naquet • Director

"An outsider who’s a law unto himself, rejected, neglected and looking for love"

CANNES 2018 : French filmmaker Camille Vidal-Naquet chatted with us about his first full-length film, Sauvage, unveiled in competition during Critics’ Week in Cannes  

10/05/2018 | Cannes 2018 | Critics’ Week

Review: Sauvage

Review: Sauvage

CANNES 2018: Camille Vidal-Naquet immerses us in a world of male prostitution where brutality, freedom of choice and the search for love endlessly collide. This is a film which takes no prisoners  

10/05/2018 | Cannes 2018 | Critics’ Week

Review: One Day

Review: One Day

CANNES 2018: Zsófia Szilágyi’s first full-length film heaves with tension and a keen sense of realism, following the daily grind of a woman and mother on the verge of breaking down  

09/05/2018 | Cannes 2018 | Critics’ Week

Charles Tesson • Artistic director, Critics' Week

Interview: Charles Tesson • Artistic director, Critics' Week

"This is the first time we’ve had so much high-quality European content"

Charles Tesson, artistic director of Cannes Critics' Week, comments on the 2018 selection  

02/05/2018 | Cannes 2018 | Critics' Week

A very European selection for the Cannes Critics’ Week

A very European selection for the Cannes Critics’ Week

Smoczynska, Szilagyi, Kofmel, Erlingsson, Vidal-Naquet, and duo Abrantes and Schmidt are in competition, while Senez and Marlin get special screenings  

16/04/2018 | Cannes 2018 | Critics' Week

Joachim Trier to chair the Critics’ Week jury

Joachim Trier to chair the Critics’ Week jury

The Cannes jury set to be presided over by the Norwegian filmmaker also includes Chloë Sevigny, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Eva Sangiorgi and Augustin Trapenard  

28/03/2018 | Cannes 2018 | Critics’ Week/Jury

Favela Olímpica, a peaceful yet desperate struggle to defend identity

Favela Olímpica, a peaceful yet desperate struggle to defend identity

LOCARNO 2017: Swiss director Samuel Chalard’s film, presented at the International Critic's Week, invites us to discover a reality that has remained hidden in the shadows  

07/08/2017 | Locarno 2017 | Critics' Week

The Critics’ Week Grand Prize goes to Makala

The Critics’ Week Grand Prize goes to Makala

CANNES 2017: The documentary by Emmanuel Gras has emerged triumphant in the Critics’ Week, while the Visionary Award went to Brazil’s Gabriel and the Mountain  

25/05/2017 | Cannes 2017 | Critics’ Week/Awards

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