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Production companies: Curiosa Films, FD Production, Ad Vitam, Versus Production Cast: Juliette Binoche, Xavier Beauvois, Gerard Depardieu, Philippe Katerine, Josiane Balasko, Sandrine Dumas, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Alex Descas Director: Claire Denis Screenwriters: Claire Denis, Christine Angot Producer: Olivier Delbosc Director of photography: Agnes Godard Production designer: Arnaud de Moleron Costume designer: Judy Shrewsbury Editor: Guy Lecorne Composer: Stuart A. Staples Venue: Cannes Film Festival (Directors» Fortnight) Sales: Films Distribution

Claire Denis has confected one of the festival's most unexpectedly delightful movies, showing in the Directors Fortnight sidebar.

Below, find out what critics are saying about all of this year's notable festival debuts, including films that screened out of competition or as part of the parallel Directors» Fortnight and International Critics» Week programs.

The film, which won the top prize this year at the Director's Fortnight sidebar, is primarily concerned with the body and brain of Brady (Brady Jandreau) a rising rodeo champ whose career is cut short by a major head injury.

After earning an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film for Embrace of the Serpent, director Ciro Guerra returned to the Director's Fortnight with this story of an indigenous Wayuu family caught up in the Colombian drudirector Ciro Guerra returned to the Director's Fortnight with this story of an indigenous Wayuu family caught up in the Colombian druDirector's Fortnight with this story of an indigenous Wayuu family caught up in the Colombian drug trade.

That gentle wryness, coupled with an ensemble heavy on French A-listers, should make this one of her more commercially viable outings following its premiere as the opening film of the Directors» Fortnight at Cannes.

Of the 19 Directors» Fortnight features with multiple reviews in this year, all received generally positive critical write - ups, some very good to raves.

CANNES — Gaspar Noé's «Climax,» charting the descent into physical hell of a young dance troupe, won the biggest prize out at Cannes» 2018 Directors» Fortnight, its Art Cinema Award.

From upscale comedy specialist Pierre Salvadori, «The Trouble with You» stars Adele Haenel, the female lead of «Love at First Fight,» which swept Directors» Fortnight in 2014.

They've become a problem in a way, because there used to be years when as many great films come out of Directors» Fortnight.

Céline Sciamma's 2014 festival favorite — it debuted at Cannes» lauded Directors» Fortnight, later making stops at Toronto, London, Hamburg, and more — is a highly relatable coming - of - age tale set against an indelible backdrop.

In other plaudits from the jury of the International Federation of Film Critics (Fipresci), Lukas Dhont's «Girl» took the nod for best film in Un Certain Regard; and «One Day,» directed by Zsófa Szilagyi, was chosen by the Fipresci jury as best movie in either Directors» Fortnight or Critics» Week.

Under Waintrop, Directors» Fortnight has unveiled some of the most talked - about of titles in any Cannes section, whether Houda Benyamina's «Divines» in 2016, Sean Baker's «Florida Project» last year, or this year's opener and critical favorite, Ciro Guerra's «Birds of a Passage,» a desert mobster saga which delivers a premonitory take on how the drug trade consolidated in and ended up destroying Colombia.

Eschewing, for the most part, more rarefied arthouse, though including «one to two films» a year which were «innovative or had new ways of showing things on the screen,» Waintrop, turned Directors» Fortnight into a major attraction at the Cannes Festival.

Heavy on Spanish language films (including a Brazilian film not in its mother tongue) and the usual block of French film items, after seven years as Artistic Director, Edouard Waintrop leaves the Directors» Fortnight (the section that gave us The Florida Project and a Claire Denis comedy in 2017) with what appears to be a program of genre - friendly firecracker line - up items.

Following the exploits of the Paris police department's «child protection unit,» Polisse (which screened early on) helped to establish this year's Croisette - spanning theme of children in peril, which could be found to varying extents in fellow Competition entries Michael (kidnapping and pedophilia), Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin (teenage sociopathy), Aki Kaurismäki's universally admired Le Havre (illegal immigration), and the Dardenne Brothers» Grand Jury Prize co-winner The Kid with a Bike (child abandonment); in the Directors» Fortnight entry Play (bullying); and in just about every film at the 50th - anniversary edition of the Critics» Week, from French actress - director Valérie Donzelli's opening - night Declaration of War (pediatric cancer) to Israeli actress - director Hagar Ben Asher's The Slut (pedophilia again), the fact - based 17 Girls (teen pregnancy), and the profoundly disturbing Snowtown, which recalled Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer in its verité sketch of Australian serial killer John Bunting, who lured local youths into aiding and abetting his violent crimes throughout the Nineties.

Over in Directors» Fortnight, a concurrent program separate from the official selection, the top prize, the Art Cinema Award, went to «The Rider,» a portrait of a South Dakota rodeo star facing a difficult life decision.

Further up the Croisette, for instance, the rival «directors» fortnight» sidebar finds space for The Florida Project — a heart - stopping portrait of child poverty, evocatively played out around Orlando's flophouse motels.

Today we continue our Cannes coverage with a preview of the sidebar Director's Fortnight and Critic's Week programs.

The International Confederation of Art Cinemas is proud to announce that the ART CINEMA AWARD at the Directors» Fortnight 2017 in Cannes went to THE RIDER by Chloé Zhao.

They band eventually changed their nom de plume to Priestbird and only began their film scoring career as a duo in 2010 with the Cannes Directors» Fortnight effort «Two Gates of Sleep» starring Brady Corbet.

Zhao had her debut feature Songs My Brothers Taught Me in the Directors» Fortnight at Cannes two years ago, and she returns with this story about a young cowboy who — after suffering a near fatal head injury — undertakes a search for new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of America.

We have an exclusive interview with Agnès Varda, and Rebecca Daly talks about her debut feature, The Other Side of Sleep, which is screening as part of the Directors Fortnight at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

Meanwhile, the Director's Fortnight favorite Tu Dors Nicole (Grade: B +) belongs to a genre I'm a sucker for: the last - summer - of - adolescence movie, in which some aimless youth passes slowly out of childhood, perhaps without really noticing.

Other films from Cannes making their US debut at Telluride include the Russian «Loveless,» directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev, about an unhappy couple searching for their son, and winner of Cannes» Jury Prize; «A Man of Integrity,» by Mohammad Rasoulof, set in corrupt Iranian society, which won the Grand Prize of the Un Certain Regard section; «The Rider,» by Chloe Zhao, about a badly injured young South Dakotan rodeo rider, which won the top prize, the Art Cinema Award, of the Director's Fortnight; «Tesnota (Closeness),» about a Jewish family forced to try to ransom their son and his new bride, also in Un Certain Regard, by Kantemir Balagov; and Barbet Schroeder's documentary about a Buddhist monk, «Le venerable W.»

Verdict: There are plenty of scuzzy revenge - type American independent genre movies out there, but for one to premiere in Cannes» Director's Fortnight suggests that it's something special, and that's exactly what «Blue Ruin» delivered by the time we caught up to it in Toronto.

Directors» Fortnight (Quinzaine des Realisateurs) was established in 1969, in the aftermath of a 1968 Cannes Film Festival that was canceled midway through in solidarity with the protests sweeping through France.

One film to watch in the Directors» Fortnight section might be the Ben Whishaw - starring «Lilting,» while Hossein Amini «s «The Two Faces Of January» could figure somewhere in the line - up as well, though TIFF is more likely.

Look at Assange post-WikiLeaks by director of Citizenfour is part of Directors» Fortnight sidebar which also includes work by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Pablo Larraín, while Chloë Sevigny short showing in Critics» Week

Not for nothing did his breakthrough film Blue Ruin (13) turn a revenge thriller into something violent enough for the Fantastic Fest crowd yet critical enough of its bloodlust to attract Directors» Fortnight attention.

The film, which kicks off Directors» Fortnight at this year's Cannes, initially feels as though it might possess Noah Baumbach's knack for human observation given its curious mix of Frances Ha's visual style and While We're Young's dynamic.

Of the French films in competition, the best was unfairly squeezed out of the main competition slate and ended up in Directors» FortnighOf the French films in competition, the best was unfairly squeezed out of the main competition slate and ended up in Directors» Fortnighof the main competition slate and ended up in Directors» Fortnight.

There will be one or two more out - of - competition films, Critics» Week lineup, and Directors» Fortnight lineup announcements coming next week.

This year's Directors» Fortnight kicks off with a slight, often stagey drama boasting a set of believably drawn performances

I threw it in a bag and didn't think for a minute it was going to create an incident at Heathrow,» she told told me following the screening of Leave No Trace, shown in the Quinzaine (Director's Fortnight) to a rapturous reception.

Inspired by his time living in the working class and immigrant communities of southern Italy and supported by our inaugural FilmTwo Initiative, Jonas developed his second feature A Ciambra which made its world debut at Cannes in Directors Fortnight.

Their screening as the Closing Night film of Directors» Fortnight at Cannes this year brought a shot of adrenaline and a whole lot of passion to the Croisette; we can't wait for the rest of the world to experience the Jersey magic when the film hits theatres this August.

Initiated by the 5050 Pour 2020 organization, a charter was signed today by general delegate and artistic chief Thierry Fremaux along with Edouard Waintrop and Charles Tesson, respectively the heads of the Directors» Fortnight and Critics» Week sections, as well as Paolo Moretti, who will take over the Fortnight next year.

There's much to admire in Whiplash, and if audience reaction is used as measurement of a film's success you'd think Whiplash was the greatest film out of Cannes, not just the Director's Fortnight where the year's Sundance hit usually lands.

After a series of dreary entries in the main competition, a trip to Directors» Fortnight to see Takashi Miike's latest gonzo exercise is exactly what the doctor ordered.

What's more, every one of these films since Rosetta has been in Competition (La Promesse screened in the Directors» Fortnight); every one of them has won a prize from the jury (with both Rosetta and The Child taking the Palme d'Or); and every one of them has been good to terrific (désolée, les haters, Lorna rules).

When it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival's Directors Fortnight, «The Florida Project» screened for a roomful of eager U.S. buyers, suggesting that while few American directors make movies like Baker, plenty of people want to see moreDirectors Fortnight, «The Florida Project» screened for a roomful of eager U.S. buyers, suggesting that while few American directors make movies like Baker, plenty of people want to see moredirectors make movies like Baker, plenty of people want to see more of them.

Daly's debut feature The Other Side of Sleep premiered at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival Directors Fortnight.

The real elephant in the Palais this year was the Directors» Fortnight, which played three films by leading filmmakers that apparently weren't up to the exacting standards met by Joachim Trier's Louder Than Bombs or Guillaume Lecloux's The Valley of Love.

NO won the top prize as part of the Director's Fortnight at Cannes, and was nominated for an Oscar ™ as best foreign language film.

Playing the Directors Fortnight, Apaches is an ensemble drama about a group of teenagers that sneak into a holiday cottage one night for a party and steal a few things including two antique rifles.

Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki will receive the Carrosse d'Or, the Golden Coach prize during the opening ceremony of the Directors» Fortnight sidebar.

The full jury, which will be presided over by Australia's own George Miller, will be unveiled next week, along with the lineup of the independent Director's Fortnight sidebar on April 19.

It was co-written with fellow 2015 breakout Alice Winocour, whose second directorial feature, «Disorder,» starring Mathias Schoenaerts and Diane Kruger, played in the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes 2014, while «Mustang» was selected for Directors Fortnight.

Jeannette, the Childhood of Joan of Arc — Bruno Dumont Premiering out of the Directors» Fortnight at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, Bruno Dumont's punk musical on the childhood of the titular historical figure was described as the jewel of the festival.