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Critics' Week


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

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

The hidden memory of Belzec

Closing last night at the 20th edition of Critics’ Week at la Mostra with the screening in "special event" of the documentary Belzec by Frenchman Guillaume Moscovitz. Set in Poland, not far from...  

09/09/2005 | Venice 2005 | Critics’ Week

Le Passager: a brother’s phantom

Mission brilliantly accomplished behind the camera for French actor Eric Caravaca who made Le Passager his well-received first feature, in the Venice Critics’ Week. Playing the protagonist in his...  

06/09/2005 | Venice 2005 | Critics’ Week

Pavee Lacken or cinéma-vérité

An ultra realistic plunge into a Bohemian Irish world for the first film in competition during Critics’ Week: Pavee Lacken by Perry Ogden. Mixing professional and non-professional actors, this...  

03/09/2005 | Venice 2005 | Critics’ week

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