Tag: 2021 Cannes Jury Grid

2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Hamaguchi’s “Drive My Car” is Tops

The Japanese drama based on the short story of the same name by Haruki Murakami landed on the top spot of IONCINEMA.com's 2021 Cannes...

2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 11 – Joachim Lafosse’s The Restless

For the final film in competition we get a piece of Belgium with Joachim Lafosse’s very first competition film offering. He has been on...

2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 11 – Justin Kurzel’s Nitram

His only other comp offering was 2015's Macbeth, but his debut film (we were there) was Snowtown (later known as The Snowtown Murders). There...

2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10 – Nabil Ayouch’s Casablanca Beats

Among the surprise selections for the Cannes Competition line-up, Nabil Ayouch's Casablanca Beats (known in French as Haut et fort), and before that it...

2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10 – Bruno Dumont’s France

A Cannes Film Festival staple, Bruno Dumont returns to the competition for a fourth time with a media satire that was clearly for acquired...

2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10 – Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria

Offering the Croisette not one but two films this year -- The Year of the Everlasting Storm is a rare anthology film that is...

2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Jacques Audiard’s Les Olympiades

Audiard established himself in Cannes with Regarde Les Hommes Tomber in the Critics’ Week, and then he saw 1996’s Un héros très discret land...

2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Ildiko Enyedi’s The Story of My Wife

A first time in comp birth for the Hungarian filmmaker, this is Ildikó Enyedi's first visit back to Cannes since the landed a spot...

2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Sean Baker’s Red Rocket

Entering the competition for the very first time (this is Sean Baker's second official visit on the Croisette with The Florida Project premiering in...

2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8 – Julia Ducournau’s Titane

Julia Ducournau landed in the 2016 edition of Critic's Week section with her debut film Raw (she previously had shown her short Junior as...

2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8 – Asghar Farhadi’s A Hero

After opening the competition in 2018 with Everybody Knows, Asghar Farhadi truly is in a return to form mode with the set in Iran...

2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7 – Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch

He opened the 2012 edition of the Cannes Film Festival with Moonrise Kingdom and he returns for a second year in a row (The...

2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7 – Kirill Serebrennikov’s Petrov’s Flu

Following Un Certain Regard preemed The Student and Leto in 2018, Kirill Serebrennikov returns to the competition with the dense Petrov's Flu. Unfortunately he...

2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6 – Mia Hansen-Løve’s Bergman Island

With Father of My Children (2009) as her only shoring up in Cannes, Mia Hansen-Løve who is seven features in lands in the Main...

2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6 – Nanni Moretti’s Three Floors

Enlisting a huge ensemble cast, Tre Piani was already identified as a Cannes entry last year. Following in the footsteps of the agreeable 2015...

2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6 – Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car

What an extraordinary year for Ryûsuke Hamaguchi. Earlier in 2021, he was at the Berlinale with Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (read our Nicholas Bell's...

2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5 – Sean Penn’s Flag Day

He was added "last minute" during the press conference for the 2021 Palme d'Or line-up and clearly there is something that Thierry appreciates in...

2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5 – Juho Kuosmanen’s Compartment No. 6

His first feature film, The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki competed in the Un Certain Regard section in 2016 and in...

2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4 – Catherine Corsini’s La Fracture

Her second entry into the comp section (exactly two decades ago with La Repetition) and three film in all with Three Worlds having premiered...

2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4 – Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta

Paul Verhoeven's third entry into the comp after 1992’s Basic Instinct and 2016's Elle was the long awaited Benedetta (hip surgery followed by the...

2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3 – Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person In The World

His second film in the Palme d'Or comp, Joachim Trier's The Worst Person In The World (aka Verdens verste menneske or in French as...

2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3 – Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s Lingui

If he doesn't go to Venice (he preemed Bye-bye Africa