Film Festivals

2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10 – Matteo Garrone’s Dogman

Published on May 17, 2018

After 2002’s The Embalmer and 2004’s First Love, Matteo Garrone would receive proper international acclaim with Gomorrah – winning the Grand Prix for the film in Cannes back in 08′. Followed by Cannes comp entires in Grand Prix winning Reality (2012) and Tales of Tales (2015), Garrone’s fourth is titled Dogman – the name of a pet grooming shop and tale of it’s owner.

Dogman premiered last night, but our critics caught the 8:30a.m. screening and the picture has played well with an average of 3.2 from nine critics.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).