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2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6 – Eva Husson’s Girls of the Sun (Les filles du soleil)

Published on May 13, 2018

Eva Husson tackles some heady subject matter with her third feature, and first Cannes entry. After shoring up at TIFF in 2015 with Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story), starring Golshifteh Farahani and Emmanuelle Bercot, Les filles du soleil is about a Kurdish female battalion prepares to take back their town from extremists and the photographer following her around and who herself is running away or chasing her own demons.

Being paired or precluded by Cate Blanchett 82-woman Cannes red carpet ‘#metoo’ protest, this pro-woman, vengeance tale based on true events has a strong production design and performances, but this exposition heavy was a bust with a our critic set.

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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).