Cannes Film Festival 2018

[Chris Knipp]

A last look at the last or nearly last Studio Jury Grid. This is considered an indicator of the international critical assessment of the Cannes Competition films.



Sorry it's not sharp.
Burning was the record high with 3.8.
Shoplifters (Korreda) won 3.2 (and the Palme d'Or).
Godard's The Image Book got 3.0.
2.9 scores went to each of:
Cold War
Ash Is Purest White
Happy As Lazzaro
The Wild Pear Tree
2.5 to Three Faces (Jafar Panahi) and BlacKKKlansman (Spike Lee, who won the Grand Prix, the no. 2 Competition award at Cannes).
2.4 to Asako I & II (Happy Hour director Hamaguchi
Burning did win the FIPRESCI Competition prize, but not one of the top Competition Jury awards.

So there are the top nine. Notice Nadine Labaki's Jury Prize winning Capernaum , a sentimental favorite for its timely refugee theme, got some very low scores including the x ("bad") scroe and an average of only 1.9, between David Robert Mitchell's cool-sounding (to me) Silver Lake (2) but above the least-favorite, Eva Husson's Girls of the Son. The opener Farhadi's Everybody Knows and the perhaps mis-categorized Yomeddine ((1.8).

Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote was of course not in competition, hence not on this grid, but I fear its Metacritic score, so far, is a meager 56 based on nine reviews.

Remember, the Metascores and details about the high-scoring Cannes 2018 films can be found summarized here: CLICK.