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Cannes 2019 / Competition


39 articles available in total starting from 21/03/2019. Last article published on 25/05/2019.

Review: And Then We Danced

Review: And Then We Danced

CANNES 2019: Through the character of a Georgian dancer in love for the first time, and with a fellow pupil, Levan Akin opens up a window onto a traditional world that’s both harsh and beautiful  

17/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: Atlantics

Review: Atlantics

CANNES 2019: Mati Diop’s first feature film mixes realism and fantasy to weave an intriguing and nebulous moral tale about immigration, love and death  

17/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Review: Bacurau

Review: Bacurau

CANNES 2019: Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles’ new work bobs and weaves with gusto and humour, playing with the traditions of the Western, Brazilian cinema and anti-imperialist resistance  

16/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Review: Les Misérables

Review: Les Misérables

CANNES 2019: With his first fiction feature, Ladj Ly paints an intense and impactful portrait of the relations between police and young people in the Paris suburbs  

16/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Review: The Dead Don’t Die

Review: The Dead Don’t Die

CANNES 2019: Jim Jarmusch’s opening film, produced with the help of Sweden’s Film i Väst, properly introduces the concept of coffee zombies to the world. And the world is grateful  

15/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Two new titles enter the Cannes competition

Two new titles enter the Cannes competition

Abdellatif Kechiche and Quentin Tarantino have entered the hunt for the Palme d’Or; Lorenzo Mattotti is in Un Certain Regard, while Gael García Bernal and Patricio Guzmán get Special Screenings  

02/05/2019 | Cannes 2019

A slew of masters and new faces to vie for the 2019 Cannes Palme d’Or

A slew of masters and new faces to vie for the 2019 Cannes Palme d’Or

8 filmmakers are locking horns in the Cannes competition for the first time, flanked by 9 directors who have already won awards on the Croisette; suspense still surrounds Tarantino and Kechiche  

18/04/2019 | Cannes 2019

Cannes to be opened by The Dead Don’t Die

Cannes to be opened by The Dead Don’t Die

The film by US director Jim Jarmusch will raise the curtain on the 72nd Cannes Film Festival (14-25 May) and will be screened in competition  

10/04/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Opening/Competition

Review: Pain and Glory

Review: Pain and Glory

This 21st film by Pedro Almodóvar exudes the intense emotions that have shaped his life, and features Antonio Banderas as the mirror-image of the director behind Talk To Her and All About My Mother  

21/03/2019 | Films | Reviews

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