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Competition / France


609 articles available in total starting from 18/07/2003. Last article published on 15/09/2025.

Review: The Restless

Review: The Restless

CANNES 2021: Joachim Lafosse returns to a cinema of intimacy, following a couple separated by illness, when one of them seems to become absent from the relationship while the other over-invests in it  

16/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Review: Memoria

Review: Memoria

CANNES 2021: World-class champion of sensory cinema Apichatpong Weerasethakul is back in fine shape, aided by Tilda Swinton and some highly fructiferous Colombian plant life  

16/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Julia Ducournau, Vincent Lindon  • Director of and actor in Titane

Interview: Julia Ducournau, Vincent Lindon • Director of and actor in Titane

“For the first 25 minutes, you go: ‘Wait a minute, where am I?!’ And then, you just know – inside a love story”

CANNES 2021: In her competition entry, the French director introduces the oddest pairing since The Shape of Water  

16/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Review: Casablanca Beats

Review: Casablanca Beats

CANNES 2021: Nabil Ayouch has made an excellent tale that is both a love affair with hip hop and a look at how the Moroccan youth is challenging orthodox views in the digital age  

16/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Review: France

Review: France

CANNES 2021: Bruno Dumont holds a magnifying glass and a mirror over the conflicting ambitions and the new awareness of a disturbing truth about the state of the country and of its souls  

16/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Review: Paris, 13th District

Review: Paris, 13th District

CANNES 2021: Jacques Audiard embarks upon a rejuvenating experience with unfettered freedom, subtly criss-crossing the trajectories and relationships of four modern-day youngsters  

15/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Review: The Story of My Wife

Review: The Story of My Wife

CANNES 2021: Ildikó Enyedi adapts Milán Füst’s novel for the big screen with aplomb in this story of what can go wrong when jealousy and fear enter a relationship  

14/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Asghar Farhadi  • Director of A Hero

Interview: Asghar Farhadi • Director of A Hero

“When people say, ‘You’re on TV,’ it means you’re on the side of the government”

CANNES 2021: The Iranian director, quite the hero himself, is back in his home country after his Spanish sojourn Everybody Knows  

14/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Mia Hansen-Løve  • Director of Bergman Island

Interview: Mia Hansen-Løve • Director of Bergman Island

“You’d think his almighty presence would feel very intimidating, but to me it was the opposite”

CANNES 2021: Not just an homage to the mega-auteur of cinema and his mythical home, the French director’s film is also a homecoming of sorts for her  

14/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Review: A Hero

Review: A Hero

CANNES 2021: Asghar Farhadi makes a satire on how social media is used to win over the court of public opinion in a film made in his signature style, with plenty of unexpected twists and turns  

14/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

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