Tag: 2025 Cannes Critic Panel
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel – Laxe, Mendonça Filho, Panahi & Trier Reign Supreme
The final grades trickled in and finally, our top three has slightly changed. Instead of a firm trio, we now have a foursome as...
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: ‘Sirat’ ‘The Secret Agent’ & ‘It Was Just an Accident’ Finish 1-2-3!
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...
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 11 – Kelly Reichardt’s ‘The Mastermind’
While she has dropped world premieres at Sundance and Venice (plus Telluride), Kelly Reichardt has been flirting with Cannes on three occasions total (plus...
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 11 – Dardenne Bros.’ ‘Jeunes mères’
Winner of the Palme d'Or for 1999's Rosetta (which also took Best Actress for the recently departed Émilie Dequenne) and 2005's The Child, Luc...
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10 – Bi Gan’s ‘Resurrection’
An already acclaimed filmmaker in his own right after 2015's Kaili Blues won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival and 2018's Long...
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10 – Saeed Roustayi’s ‘Woman and Child’
Iranian filmmaker Saeed Roustaee (also spelled Saeed Roustayi - I know its annoying) became part of the Cannes family when he gave us the...
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Joachim Trier’s ‘Sentimental Value’
Everyone took notice with his 2006 debut Reprise, but it is his Cannes' Un Certain Regard 2011 sophomore feature Oslo, August 31st where this...
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Oliver Hermanus’ ‘The History of Sound’
South African filmmaker Oliver Hermanus might be another newbie in competition but this first trip to Cannes as he premiered 2011's Beauty in the...
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Carla Simón’s ‘Romería’
In competition film #16 of the twenty-two offerings, and the first of a three day competition buffet, and the second com title from Spain,...
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8 – Mario Martone’s Fuori
In an even split, and in two different waves, Italian filmmaker Mario Martone has populated the Un Certain Regard section with L'Amore molesto (1995)...
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8 – Jafar Panahi’s ‘It Was Just an Accident’
Jafar Panahi might be more synonymous with Berlin say over Cannes, but he has left his mark with the likes of 1995 Camera d'Or...
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7 – Julia Ducournau’s ‘Alpha’
Body horror, psychological issues, and social commentary best describe the cinema of Julia Ducournau and we could potentially find the same in what could...
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7 – Tarik Saleh’s ‘Eagles of the Republic’
Swedish filmmaker Tarik Saleh has been moving up from arthouse The Nile Hilton Incident (read ★★★ review) and genre items The Contractor (read ★★...
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6 – Wes Anderson’s ‘The Phoenician Scheme’
With three previous films in the Cannes competition beginning with Moonrise Kingdom (2012), followed by 2011's The French Dispatch (read ★★ review) and 2023's...
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6 – Kleber Mendonça Filho’s ‘The Secret Agent’
A favorite filmmaker of the festival, and perhaps the best Brazilian filmmaker currently working, Kleber Mendonça Filho has been to Cannes on many occasions....
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5 – Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love
A Cannes Film Festival regular, British filmmaker Lynne Ramsay has five features under her belt and all of them have shored up on the...
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5 – Richard Linklater’s ‘Nouvelle Vague’
This is Cannes Film Festival's third invite (second time competition) to veteran American indie filmmaker Richard Linklater. Oddly his first visit was almost two...
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5 – Chie Hayakawa’s ‘Renoir’
Gradually making her presence known on the Croisette first with her Cinéfondation selected Niagara (2013) short, and eventually with 2022's Plan 75 - an...
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4 – Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’
Unless we count some items he produced, Ari Aster is one of the filmmakers coming to Cannes without any previous Croisette history. A standout...
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4 – Hafsia Herzi’s ‘La Petite Dernière’ (The Little Sister)
Actress-filmmaker (she forever stole our cinephile heart for her role in Abdellatif Kechiche's The Secret of the Grain back in 2007) Hafsia Herzi has...
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3 – Óliver Laxe’s ‘Sirat’
When he was selected for the prestigious competition section this past April, Paris-born Spanish of Galician background filmmaker Óliver Laxe achieved a remarkable feat...
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3 – Dominik Moll’s ‘Dossier 137’
Known for a filmography heavy into psychological thriller portraits with noir and crime element trimmings, the French-German filmmaker saw his second and third features...
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2 – Sergei Loznitsa’s ‘Two Prosecutors’
The Belarusian born, Ukraine filmmaker has loaded up the Cannes Film Festival with what feels like an easy dozen offerings in both the docu...
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2 – Mascha Schilinski’s ‘Sound of Falling’
A little bit after this year's Berlinale, there was was a great deal of buzz surrounding a certain German title that opted for the...
Live From Cannes!!! Meet the Jury For Our 2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel
IONCINEMA.com has been gauging the pulse of the Palme d’Or competition since 2011. We first jumped into the water when trades such as Screen...
