Tomorrow is the big day. There were twenty-two films in competition and only one will take home the big daddy prize. If it were according to our Cannes Critics’ Panel – it would be a Spanish film that would be victor among them all. Óliver Laxe‘s Sirat took the lead instantously and fought off from steep competition from Kleber Mendonça Filho‘s The Secret Agent (3.6) and Jafar Panahi‘s It Was Just an Accident (3.5), but the road-trip from hell remained at the top spot with a combined average score of 3.9.
Next up we find Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value at 3.4 along with the Dardenne Bros.’ Young Mothers and close behind we have Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague (3.3), Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Falling (3.2), Bi Gan’s Resurrection (3.1) and Oliver Hermanus’ The History of Sound at an even 3.0.
Part of what we could call the middle of the pack (films that had supporters and detractors) we have Carla Simón’s Romería (2.9), Dominik Moll’s Dossier 137 and Saeed Roustayi’s Woman and Child at 2.8.
Tied at 2.7 we have Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind, Sergei Loznitsa’s Two Prosecutors, Chie Hayakawa’s Renoir and Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love. With a combined score of 2.6 we got Ari Aster’s Eddington, Tarik Saleh’s Eagles of the Republic and Hafsia Herzi’s La Petite Dernière.
And almost universally panned trio we have Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme (2.1), Mario Martone’s Fuori (2.0) and Julia Ducournau’s Alpha at 1.9.
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