2018 Cannes at a Glance
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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