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Critics' Week


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

Copacabana: A bittersweet family tale

French diva Isabelle Huppert and her 26-year-old actress daughter, Lolita Chammah star as mother and daughter in the Franco-Belgian co-production Copacabana, shown as a special screening during...  

16/05/2010 | Cannes 2010 | Critics’ Week/France

Belle Epine explores the inability to mourn

French screenwriter Rebecca Zlotowski (29) this morning presented her debut directorial feature, Belle Epine, which is vying for the Camera d’Or and competing in Critics’ Week. Dear Prudence is a...  

15/05/2010 | Cannes 2010 | Critics’ Week/France

Love and identity through the prism of humour in The Names of Love

The 49th International Critics’ Week at the Cannes Film Festival opened yesterday evening with French director Michel Leclerc’s feel-good, intelligent comedy The Names of Love. The director’s...  

14/05/2010 | Cannes 2010 | Critics’ Week/France

Nilsson and Simonsson bring more music to Croisette

Swedish directing duo Johannes Stjärne Nilsson and Ola Simonsson will unveil their feature debut, Sound of Noise, in the Critics Week sidebar of the upcoming Cannes Film Festival (May 12-23). The...  

20/04/2010 | Cannes 2010 | Critics Week/Sweden

Scandinavian and French films in spotlight

A quartet of young European directors will take part in competition at the 49th International Critics’ Week (SIC), which will run from May 13-21 as part of the 63rd Cannes Film Festival. Unveiled...  

19/04/2010 | Cannes 2010 | Critics’ Week

Slovakian Foxes on the Lido

Slovak director Mira Fornay’s debut feature Foxes was presented as part of the Critics’ Week in Venice, marking the first time since 1984 a Slovak feature premiered there. The film tackles...  

10/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Critics’ Week/Slovakia

Scenes from two marriages in A Rational Solution

Forgetting Bergman: this is the persistent concern of young Swedish filmmakers, who work in the shadow of the great master from Uppsala. Jörgen Bergmark, who presents his debut feature after...  

08/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Critics’ Week/Sweden

Domaine, Béatrice Dalle as a systematic alcoholic

French diva Béatrice Dalle stars as an alcoholic aunt in Domaine, the strong feature debut of French director of Austrian origins, Patric Chiha. The film is part of the Critics’ Week selection of...  

08/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Critics’ Week/France

Solitude has no (skin) colour in Good Morning Aman

Forty-five-year-old Rome-born Teodoro and 18-year-old Somali-born Aman seem to have two very different journeys and destinies. Separated by skin colour, age and life experiences, they nonetheless...  

06/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Critics’ Week/Italy

Last stop, Metropia

In Europe in 2024, you don’t have many choices: you can either take the underground, watch the TV show "Asylum", or wash your hair. In any case, someone will read your mind and you will never...  

04/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Critics’ Week/Sweden

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