2023 Cannes Film Festival: Nicholas Bell & Eric Lavallée’s Top 10
We arrived. We watched. We reviewed. We lost a lot of sleep and we battled the ticketing system. Combining our efforts to bring you all the Cannes Film Festival goodness, the dust has settled and we are pleased to present a snapshot of what Nicholas Bell & I really dug at the 76th edition via our Top 10 films list plus a complete overview of the films we saw, the grades we assigned and direct links to our reviews.
Nicholas Bell:
10. Un prince – Dir. Pierre Creton
09. Anatomy of a Fall – Dir. Justine Triet
08. Man in Black – Dir. Wang Bing
07. The Pot au Feu – Dir. Tran Anh Hung
06. Fallen Leaves – Dir. Aki Kaurismäki
05. Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry – Dir. Elene Naveriani
04. Last Summer – Dir. Catherine Breillat
03. About Dry Grasses – Dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan
02. May December – Dir. Todd Haynes
01. The Zone of Interest – Dir. Jonathan Glazer
Eric Lavallée:
10. Déserts – Dir. Faouzi Bensaïd
09. May December – Dir. Todd Haynes
08. Four Daughters – Kaouther Ben Hania
07. The Pot au Feu – Dir. Tran Anh Hung
06. Mother of All Lies – Dir. Asmae El Moudir
05. About Dry Grasses – Dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan
04. La chimera – Dir. Alice Rohrwacher
03. Anatomy of a Fall – Dir. Justine Triet
02. Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell – Dir. Thien An Pham
01. The Zone of Interest – Dir. Jonathan Glazer
Opening Film: Jeanne du Barry – Maïwenn (NB: 1.5) Review
Competition:
About Dry Grasses – Nuri Bilge Ceylan (EL: 4 / NB: 4) Review
Anatomy of a Fall – Justine Triet (EL: 4 / NB: 3.5) Review
Asteroid City – Wes Anderson (EL: 2 / NB: 1) Review
Banel & Adama – Ramata-Toulaye Sy (NB: 3.5) Review
Black Flies – Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire (EL: 2 / NB: 2) Review
A Brighter Tomorrow – Nanni Moretti (EL: 2.5 / NB: .5) Review
La chimera – Alice Rohrwacher (EL: 4 / NB: 3.5) Review
Club Zero – Jessica Hausner (EL: 2 / NB: 2.5) Review
Fallen Leaves – Aki Kaurismäki (EL: 3 / NB: 4) Review
Firebrand – Karim Aïnouz (EL: 3 / NB: 2) Review
Four Daughters – Kaouther Ben Hania (EL: 4 / NB: 3) Review
Le retour – Catherine Corsini (EL: 3.5 / NB: 3.5) Review
Rapito – Marco Bellocchio (EL: 3 / NB: 3) Review
L’Été dernier – Catherine Breillat (EL: 3.5 / NB: 4) Review
May December – Todd Haynes (EL: 4 / NB: 4) Review
Monster – Hirokazu Kore-eda (EL: 3.5 / NB: 3.5) Review
The Old Oak – Ken Loach (NB: 2) Review
Perfect Days – Wim Wenders (EL: 3 / NB: 3) Review
The Pot-au-Feu – Tran Anh Hung (EL: 4 / NB: 3) Review
Youth (Spring) – Wang Bing (NB: 3.5) Review
The Zone of Interest – Jonathan Glazer (EL: 4.5 / NB: 4.5) Review
Un Certain Regard
Rien à perdre – Delphine Deloget (EL: 1.5 / NB: 2.5) Review
The Breaking Ice – Anthony Chen (NB: 2)
The Buriti Flower – Joao Salaviza, Renée Nader Messora (NB: 3) Review
Los Delincuentes – Rodrigo Moreno (EL: 3.5) Review
Goodbye Julia – Mohamed Kordofani (EL: 2.5) Review
Hopeless – Kim Chang-hoon (NB: .5) Review
Les Meutes – Kamal Lazraq (EL: 3.5) Review
How to Have Sex – Molly Manning Walker (EL: 2) Review
If Only I Could Hibernate – Zoljargal Purevdash (EL: 2.5 / NB: 3) Review
The Mother of All Lies – Asmae El Moudir (EL: 4) Review
Simple comme Sylvain – Monia Chokri (EL: 3) Review
The New Boy – Warwick Thornton
Omen – Baloji Tshiani (EL: 2 / NB: 2.5) Review
Only the River Flows – Wei Shujun (EL: 2.5) Review
Le Règne animal – Thomas Cailley (EL: 1.5 ) Review
Rosalie – Stéphanie Di Giusto (EL: 2 / NB: 2) Review
Salem – Jean-Bernard Marlin (NB: 1.5)
The Settlers – Felipe Gálvez (EL: 3 / NB: 3) Review
Terrestrial Verses – Ali Asgari, Alireza Khatami (EL: 3.5 ) Review
Une Nuit – Alex Lutz
Out of competition
Killers of the Flower Moon – Martin Scorsese (EL: 3 / NB: 3) Review
Cannes Premiere
Le Temps d’aimer – Katell Quillévéré (EL: 2 / NB: 3) Review
Bonnard, Pierre and Marthe – Martin Provost (EL: 3) Review
Eureka – Lisandro Alonso (NB: 3)
L’Amour et Les Forêts – Valérie Donzelli (EL: X / NB: 2) Review
Lost in the Night – Amat Escalante (EL: 3 / NB: 2.5) Review
Special Screenings
Little Girl Blue – Mona Achache (NB: 3.5) Review
Man in Black – Wang Bing China (NB: 4)
Occupied City – Steve McQueen (NB: 3)
Strange Way of Life – Pedro Almodóvar (NB 3.5)
Directors’ Fortnight
Agra – Kanu Behl (EL: 2 / NB: 2) Review
Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry – Elene Naveriani (NB: 4) Review
The Book of Solutions – Michel Gondry (NB: 2) Review
Conann – Bertrand Mandico (EL: 1.5 / NB: 2.5) Review
Creatura – Elena Martín Gimeno (EL: 2 / NB: 3.5) Review
Déserts – Faouzi Bensaïdi (EL: 3.5) Review
The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed – Joanna Arnow (EL: 2 ) Review
The Goldman Case – Cédric Kahn (EL: 3 / NB: 3) Review
Grace – Ilya Povolotsky (EL: 3.5 / NB: 2.5) Review
In Flames – Zarrar Kahn (EL: 2) Review
In Our Day – Hong Sang-soo (NB: 3.5) Review
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell – Pham Thien An (EL: 4.5 / NB: 3) Review
Légua – Filipa Reis, João Miller Guerra (EL: 2 / NB: 2.5) Review
Mambar Pierrette – Rosine Mbakam (NB: 3) Review
The Other Laurens – Claude Schmitz (NB: 1) Review
Un prince – Pierre Creton (NB: 3.5) Review
Riddle of Fire – Weston Razooli (NB: X) Review
A Song Sung Blue – Geng Zihan (NB: 2) Review
The Sweet East – Sean Price Williams (EL: 2 / NB: 2) Review
Critics’ Week:
Il Pleut Dans La Maison – Paloma Sermon-Daï (EL: 2 / NB: 3) Review
Inshallah A Boy – Amjad Al Rasheed (NB: 3) Review
Lost Country – Vladimir Perišić (EL: 3) Review
Power Alley – Lillah Halla (EL: 2) Review
Le Ravissement – Iris Kaltenbäck (EL: 1.5) Review
Sleep – Jason Yu
Tiger Stripes – Amanda Nell Eu
Àma Gloria – Marie Amachoukeli (EL: 3.5) Review
The (Exp)erience of Love – Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni (EL: 1.5 / NB: 2) Review
No Love Lost – Erwan Le Duc (NB: 1) Review
Vincent Must Die – Stéphan Castang (EL: 2) Review
