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Critics' Week


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

Review: Vincent Must Die

Review: Vincent Must Die

CANNES 2023: Stéphan Castang casts a brilliant Karim Leklou at the intersection of genres, amidst a paranoia-fuelled storm reminiscent of a survival movie  

19/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Critics’ Week

Review: It’s Raining in the House

Review: It’s Raining in the House

CANNES 2023: Paloma Sermon-Daï turns to fiction with this story of a brother and sister confronted with the last summer of their childhood, between carelessness and social determinism  

19/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Critics’ Week

Review: Inshallah a Boy

Review: Inshallah a Boy

CANNES 2023: In this debut feature by Jordanian director Amjad Al Rasheed, a widow contends with the country’s patriarchal inheritance laws, as her only child is a daughter  

18/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Critics’ Week

Amanda Nell Eu • Director of Tiger Stripes

Interview: Amanda Nell Eu • Director of Tiger Stripes

“As women, we should be proud of our bodies”

CANNES 2023: The debuting director proves that every girl should show off her tiger stripes and strive to find joy again  

17/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Critics’ Week

Marie Amachoukeli • Director of Àma Gloria

Interview: Marie Amachoukeli • Director of Àma Gloria

"That’s how a child sees the world"

CANNES 2023: The French director speaks about her first solo effort, an incredibly moving and highly sensitive work about the deep ties between a young French child and her Cape Verdean nanny  

17/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Critics’ Week

Review: Tiger Stripes

Review: Tiger Stripes

CANNES 2023: Malaysia's Amanda Nell Eu drills down into the turmoil of female puberty with a refreshing first feature film where genres collide and society is playfully mocked  

17/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Critics' Week

Review: Àma Gloria

Review: Àma Gloria

CANNES 2023: Marie Amachoukeli delivers an incredibly moving and exquisitely sensitive first solo feature film about the strong bond between a young French child and her Cape Verdean nanny  

17/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Critics’ Week

Three European filmmakers selected in competition for Cannes’ Critics’ Week

Three European filmmakers selected in competition for Cannes’ Critics’ Week

Paloma Sermon-Daï, Iris Kaltenbäck and Vladimir Perisič will battle it out for the Grand Prize, while Marie Amachoukeli, Stéphan Castang, and Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni will get Special Screenings  

19/04/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Critics’ Week

Ava Cahen  • Artistic Director, Critics’ Week

Interview: Ava Cahen • Artistic Director, Critics’ Week

"We tend to listen when our hearts speak to us, when there’s critical unanimity and a convergence of views"

The artistic director of the Cannes Film Festival’s Critics’ Week section discusses her 2023 selection  

17/04/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Critics’ Week

Audrey Diwan to chair the Cannes Critics’ Week jury

Audrey Diwan to chair the Cannes Critics’ Week jury

The jury of the parallel section, which will be presided over by the French filmmaker, also includes Franz Rogowski, Rui Poças, Kim Yutani and Meenakshi Shedde  

12/04/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Critics’ Week

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