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Cannes Film Festival celebrated 50 years of its Directors' Fortnight section in 2018 as the overall festival enjoys its 71st edition. The festival opened with Asghar Farhadi's Everybody Knows, starring Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz.
Christopher Nolan presented 2001: A Space Odyssey on a remastered 70mm print in the Cannes Classics strand.
Shoplifters won the Palme d'Or. Read about the other main competition winners.
The festival ran from May 8 to 19.
View Films by Strand:
- ACID
- Cannes Classics
- Competition
- Critics' Week
- Directors' Fortnight
- Midnight Screenings
- Out Of Competition
- Special Screenings
- Un Certain Regard
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Cannes Latest Reviews

A child rebels against the life imposed upon him.

Jong-soo, a part-time worker, bumps into Hae-mi while delivering, who used to live in the same neighborhood. Hae-mi asks him to look after her cat while she's on a trip to Africa.

Through the description of the daily lives of the now elderly survivors of the Jiabiangou Forced Labor Camp, this documentary seeks to expose the truth about the political campaigns of the late 1950s that led so many people to suffer or to die.

Diamantino was once the greatest football player in Portugal. Now, in the middle of the worst crisis of his life, he decides to fill his void by adopting a refugee boy.

A spoiled boy has to cope with the arrival of a new baby sister - and much more.

Director Margarethe von Trotta, extremely appreciated by Ingmar Bergman, follows the filmmaker’s footsteps as well as her own past and questions the new generation about the place left by the Swedish master.

True story of a reporter who took a seemingly suicidal road trip into the heart of the civil war in Angola in the 70s.

A dog groomer finds himself groomed to commit crime.

Pacific Northwest. 1983. Outsiders Red Miller and Mandy Bloom lead a loving and peaceful existence. When their haven is savagely destroyed by a cult, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance.

A portrait of a family in crisis.
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Filming sensations Mathieu Amalric on Pierre Léon, Jeanne Balibar and the sounds and colours of Barbara
Character arc Seth A Smith on filming with a two-year-old and bringing marbling to life in The Crescent
Keeping up appearances Marcello Martinessi on cultural conservatism and filmmaking honesty in The Heiresses
A different space Kelly Macdonald on working with Marc Turtletaub on Puzzle
Out of the past Susanna Nicchiarelli on Trine Dyrholm and the costume design in Nico, 1988
The iconic man Jonathan Baker on Becoming Iconic and Inconceivable
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