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Critics' Week


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

Review: Block Pass

Review: Block Pass

CANNES 2024: Antoine Chevrollier delivers a fine and dynamic first feature in the form of a coming-of-age story, set in a rural area of France which is rendered invisible or caricatured on screen  

20/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Critics’ Week

Review: Across the Sea

Review: Across the Sea

CANNES 2024: Saïd Hamich Benlarbi depicts the eventful and soulful journey of a young Maghrebi man seeking his fortune in France  

19/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Critics’ Week

Review: Julie Keeps Quiet

Review: Julie Keeps Quiet

CANNES 2024: Young Belgian filmmaker Leonardo van Dijl’s first feature film paints an intimate and brilliantly executed portrait of a young female athlete faced with a painful decision  

18/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Critics’ Week

Leonardo van Dijl • Director of Julie Keeps Quiet

Interview: Leonardo van Dijl • Director of Julie Keeps Quiet

“The challenge for me was to make the silence loud”

CANNES 2024: The director unpicks his first feature, an intimate portrait of a young tennis player who has to contend with her coach’s misfortunes as well as her own secrets  

18/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Critics’ Week

Saïd Hamich Benlarbi • Director of Across the Sea

Interview: Saïd Hamich Benlarbi • Director of Across the Sea

“I have lived through the experience of exile”

CANNES 2024: In his new film, the French-Moroccan director salutes the dreamers and those who never truly feel at home  

18/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Critics’ Week

Nada Riyadh, Ayman El Amir • Directors of The Brink of Dreams

Interview: Nada Riyadh, Ayman El Amir • Directors of The Brink of Dreams

“These girls challenge traditions”

CANNES 2024: The Egyptian filmmakers follow an all-female street-theatre troupe that is, and always was, uncompromising  

18/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Critics’ Week

Review: The Brink of Dreams

Review: The Brink of Dreams

CANNES 2024: Egypt’s Nada Riyadh and Ayman El Amir follow a group of young women as they challenge longstanding norms by starting an all-female street-theatre troupe  

17/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Critics’ Week

Review: Locust

Review: Locust

CANNES 2024: A mute young man gets caught up with some local tough guys in the neo-noir debut from Taiwanese-US filmmaker KEFF  

16/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Critics’ Week

Jonathan Millet • Director of Ghost Trail

Interview: Jonathan Millet • Director of Ghost Trail

"My goal was to add tension using very simple things”

CANNES 2024: The French filmmaker talks about his first fiction feature, a fascinating piece combining the codes of the spy movie and psychological confrontation  

15/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Critics’ Week

Review: Ghost Trail

Review: Ghost Trail

CANNES 2024: Jonathan Millet creates a spellbinding first feature about revenge, trauma and exile through the obsessive pursuit of a Syrian war criminal hiding in Europe  

15/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Critics’ Week

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