Success wasn’t guaranteed but the gamble paid off” Flanked by all the teenagers and teachers who star in Entre les murs - which screened in official competition at the 61st Cannes Film Festival - French director Laurent Cantet spoke to the international press about the sense and original method that led him to explore the subject of school through a cinematic medium combining fiction and documentary

Laurent Cantet scored a surprise triumph this evening at the 61st Cannes Film Festival with his film The Class, putting an end to a 21-year dearth of Palme d’Ors for France.
Italy claimed an extraordinary double success with the Grand Prize for Matteo Garrone’s Gomorrah and the Jury Prize for Paolo Sorrentino’s Il divo (”The Deity”).
The […]

Kazakh filmmaker Sergey Dvortsevoy yesterday evening picked up the Un Certain Regard Award at the 61st Cannes Film Festival.
Presided by German director Fatih Akin, the jury unanimously decided to present the prize to this co-production between Germany (Pandora Film and Pallas Film), Switzerland (Cobra Film), Poland (Filmcontract), Russia and Kazakhstan. This fascinating feature […]

The FIPRESCI jury of international critics of the Cannes Film Festival presented its award this year to Kornél Mundruczó’s Hungarian film Delta, selected in official competition.
The Un Certain Regard winner is is Hunger by UK filmmaker Steve McQueen. Eldorado by Belgium’s Bouli Lanners was chosen from the Directors’ Fortnight.
For his Sanguepazzo, presented at the […]

The eagerly awaited Che - shown in competition yesterday evening at the Cannes Film Festival - didn’t fail to impress followers of the Che Guevara legend or enthusiasts of the cinematic epic.
Played by a very believable Benicio Del Toro - a strong contender for a Best Actor Award - the famous revolutionary serves as the […]

Two young kids and a dog are playing in a dry ditch by the side of the road. Later, a platinum-haired woman drives by. She is distracted and runs over something…. perhaps a dog. It starts to rain, the ditch quickly fills up with water.

Sophisticated and sensitive Argentinean director Lucretia Martel returns to the Cannes competition with The Headless Woman. After The Swamp and the provocative The Holy Girl, Martel’s third film is a co-production between Argentina, Spain, France and Italy.

Ursula Meier’s debut narrative feature Home had a special screening yesterday in the Critics’ Week at Cannes. This Swiss/French/Belgian co-production – starring Isabelle Huppert and Olivier Gourmet – proudly attests to the ambitions of the rising star of Swiss film, who cemented her reputation as a director with her documentaries (Autour de Pinget and Pas les flics, pas les Noirs, pas les Blancs) and television film Strong Shoulders.

Woody Allen presented his latest work from his “European tour” at Cannes this year. After making three films in the UK, the US filmmaker moved to Catalonia, Spain to shoot Vicky Cristina Barcelona, shown out of competition.

Received to mix reactions by the international press, but certainly proof of the renowned director’s return to form, the comedy plays with the clichés of the sentimental encounter between American tourists and hot-blooded locals.