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2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 11 – Nadine Labaki’s Capharnaum

Published on May 18, 2018

The Lebanese writer-director-actress started in the Director’s Fortnight with Caramel in 2007, moved up to the UCR section with Lebanon 2011’s with Where Do We Go Now?. For her third time out, she breaks into the comp with Capharnaüm – the story of a twelve year-old who decide to sue his parents. It’s this year’s Loveless for the theme of abandoned children.

Last night, Labaki shot in front of the pack with many are considering the favorite to win the Palme d’Or. With 19 out of 20 of our critics sending in their grades (for an average of 2.7), they either love it (six critics gave the film a score of 4 stars) or loathe it. Will she become the 2don (and only) Palme d’Or winner in the history of the fest. Vegas odds say yes.

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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).

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2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 11 – Nadine Labaki’s Capharnaum