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

Date:

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 is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury 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 was a New Flesh Juror for Best First Feature at the Fantasia International Film Festival. His top films for 2023 include The Zone of Interest (Glazer), Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Pham Thien An), Totem (Lila Avilés), La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher), All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Raven Jackson). He is a Golden Globes Voter.

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