2018 Cannes at a Glance

Erik Anderson May 7, 2018

The 2018 Cannes Film Festival is this week and this page will be your updated Cannes at a Glance featuring links to reviews from myself and Mina Takla, videos, podcasts, interviews, press conferences and more. You can check out pre-festival Cannes coverage here. Follow me on Twitter and Instagram for live thoughts and reactions.

One of the more interesting things for us awards watchers and followers are the aggregate polls from critics around the world.

Apichatpoll: http://www.todaslascriticas.com.ar/cannes/2018
ICS: https://icsfilm.org/features/cannes-…critics-panel/
German poll: http://jury.critic.de/cannes/
Ion cinema: https://www.ioncinema.com/news/film-…verybody-knows
Chinese poll:https://twitter.com/CriticsGrid
TF1: https://twitter.com/RomainLeVern
Poll-of-polls: http://cannes-ratings.herokuapp.com/Cannes2018
Lesinrokuptibles: http://cannes2017.lesinrocks.com/cannes2018/
Screen Daily: TBA
Fipresci: TBA

This is where you will find early reactions and reviews. Note: not every film on this list will be reviewed, some will be dropped and some will be added throughout the festival.

In Competition

Todos los Saben (Everybody Knows), Asghar Farhadi (Opening Night film) – review
Ahlat Agaci (The Wild Pear Tree), Nuri Bilge Ceylan
En Guerre (In War), Stéphane Brizé
Akya (The Little One), Sergei Dvortsevoy
Dogman, Matteo Garrone
Un Couteau dans le Cœur (Knife in the Heart), Yann Gonzalez
Le Livre D’image (The Image Book), Jean-Luc Godard
Netemo Sametemo (Asako I & II), Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Plaire Aimer Et Courir Vite (Pleasure, Love and Run Fast aka Sorry Angel), Christophe Honoré
Les Filles Du Soleil (Girls Of The Sun), Eva Husson
Jiang Hu Er NV (The Eternal aka Ash Is Purest White), Jia Zhang-Ke – review
Manbiki Kazoku (A Family Matter aka Shoplifters), Kore-Eda Hirokazu – review
Capharnaüm (Capernaum), Nadine Labaki
Buh-Ning (Burning), Lee Chang-Dong
Blackkklansman, Spike Lee – review
Under The Silver Lake, David Robert Mitchell
Se Rokh (3 Faces), Jafar Panahi
Zimna Wojna (Cold War), Pawel Pawlikowski – review
Lazzaro Felice (Happy as Lazzaro), Alice Rohrwacher – review
Yomeddine, A.B Shawky – review
Leto (Summer), Kirill Serebrennikov – review

Out Of Competition

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Terry Gilliam (Closing Night film)
Solo: A Star Wars Story, Ron Howard
Le Grand Bain, Gilles Lellouche
The House That Jack Built, Lars von Trier

Un Certain Regard

Border, Ali Abbasi – review
Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Bi Gan
Manto, Nandita Das
Girl, Lukas Dhont – review
Donbass, Sergei Loznitsa (Opening Night film)
Muere, Monstruo, Muere, Alejandro Fadel
Gueule D’ange (Angel Face), Vanessa Filho
Euphoria, Valeria Golino
Rafiki (Friend), Wanuri Kahiu – review
Mon Tissu Préféré (My Favorite Fabric), Gaya Jiji – review
Die Stropers (The Harvesters), Etienne Kallos
In My Room, Ulrich Köhler
El Angel, Luis Ortega
The Dead and the Others, João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora
The Gentle Indifference Of The World, Adilkhan Yerzhanov
À Genoux Les Gars (Sextape), Antoine Desrosières

Directors’ Fortnight and Critics’ Week

Pájaros de verano (Birds of Passage), Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego – review
Wildlife, Paul Dano – review

Special Screenings

Ten Years In Thailand, Aditya Assarat, Wisit Sasanatieng, Chulayarnon Sriphol & Apichatpong Weerasethakul
The State Against Mandela And The Others, Nicolas Champeaux & Gilles Porte
O Grande Circo Místico (Le Grand Cirque Mystique), Carlo Diegues
Les Âmes Mortes (Dead Souls), Wang Bing
À Tous Vents (To The Four Winds), Michel Toesca
La Traversée, Romain Goupil
Pope Francis: A Man of His Word, Wim Wenders

Midnight/Special Screenings

Fahrenheit 451, Ramin Bahrani
Whitney, Kevin Macdonald – review
Arctic, Joe Penna – review
Gongjak (The Spy Gone North), Yoon Jong-bin

Here is the official screening guide.

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Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.