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Competition / France


573 articles available in total starting from 18/07/2003. Last article published on 18/07/2025.

Luana Bajrami  • Director of The Hill Where Lionesses Roar

Interview: Luana Bajrami • Director of The Hill Where Lionesses Roar

"My film paints the unknown picture of Kosovo"

CANNES 2021: The French-Kosovar actress discusses her first feature as a director, which follows a gang of likeable (and perfectly cast) girls  

12/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Directors' Fortnight

Review: Bergman Island

Review: Bergman Island

CANNES 2021: Mia Hansen-Løve elaborates a great oeuvre, a game of nested mirrors about couplehood, creativity, cinephilia and ghosts, in the summery setting of the Fårö island  

11/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Catherine Corsini  • Director of The Divide

Interview: Catherine Corsini • Director of The Divide

“To consider oneself, to consider others and have some hope in the fact that people can talk to each other”

CANNES 2021: The French filmmaker discusses her at once funny and dramatic film unveiled in competition, which through fiction delves into a very agitated night at the hospital  

11/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Joachim Trier  • Director of The Worst Person in the World

Interview: Joachim Trier • Director of The Worst Person in the World

“At the end of the day, all three of them feel like the worst person in the world; that’s my conclusion”

CANNES 2021: The Norwegian director unpicks his seemingly cute, seemingly romantic comedy-drama  

11/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Review: The Divide

Review: The Divide

CANNES 2021: Over one very agitated night at the hospital, Catherine Corsini intersects, with a good balance between comedy and drama, several hot social issues that are dividing France  

10/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Review: Benedetta

Review: Benedetta

CANNES 2021: Religion, power, manipulation, miracles and stigmata, truths and falsehoods are all on the ambiguous, intelligent, black humour-filled agenda of Paul Verhoeven’s excellent film  

09/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Review: Lingui, The Sacred Bonds

Review: Lingui, The Sacred Bonds

CANNES 2021: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun delivers a luminous work about a mother whose love for her daughter causes her to change course and to set about surmounting social and religious taboos  

09/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Review: The Worst Person in the World

Review: The Worst Person in the World

CANNES 2021: Joachim Trier delivers a perfectly watchable love story, or stories, but his female protagonist seems lifted from a fantasy land  

09/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Review: The Hill Where Lionesses Roar

Review: The Hill Where Lionesses Roar

CANNES 2021: Luàna Bajrami delivers a fine first feature, fresh and full of punch, about three girls who metamorphose into a pack of thieves in order to escape the destiny already drawn out for them  

08/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: Ahed’s Knee

Review: Ahed’s Knee

CANNES 2021: An irascible Israeli filmmaker comes to a small town in the Negev desert for a retrospective screening of his work in Nadav Lapid’s follow-up to Synonyms  

08/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

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