Cannes 2018. Top 10 & Coverage Roundup

Below you will find an index of our coverage from the Cannes Film Festival, Directors' Fortnight, and Critics' Week in 2018, as well as our favorite films.

AWARDS

TOP 10

1. The Image Book (Jean-Luc Godard)

2. Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhangke) & Happy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher)

4. Burning (Lee Chang-dong)

5. Asako I & II (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)

6. Long Day's Journey Into Night (Bi Gan)

7. Dead Souls (Wang Bing)

8. In My Room (Ulrich Köhler)

9. Climax (Gaspar Noé)

10. BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee)

(Contributors: Gustavo Beck, Annabel Ivy Brady-Brown, Giovanni Marchini Camia, Josh Cabrita, Jesse Cumming, Lawrence Garcia, Daniel Kasman, Roger Koza, Richard Porton, Kurt Walker, Blake Williams)

CORRESPONDENCES

#1 Daniel Kasman previews the festival| Read

#2 Lawrence Garcia on Everybody Knows (Asghar Farhadi), Dead Souls (Wang Bing) | Read

#3 Daniel Kasman on Birds of Passage (Cristina Gallego & Ciro Guerra), Donbass (Sergei Loznitsa) | Read

#4 Lawrence Garcia on Leto (Kirill Serebrennikov), Cold War (Pawel Pawlikowski) | Read

#5 Daniel Kasman on The Image Book (Jean-Luc Godard), Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhangke) | Read

#6 Lawrence Garcia on Climax (Gaspar Noé), Mandy (Panos Cosmatos), 3 Faces (Jafar Panahi), | Read

#7 Daniel Kasman on 3 Faces (Jafar Panahi), The Load (Ognjen Glavonic), Happy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher) | Read

#8 Lawrence Garcia on Long Day's Journey into Night (Bi Gan), Asako I & II (Ryusuke Hamaguchi), BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee), The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier) | Read

#9 Daniel Kasman on Diamantino (Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt), Girl (Lukas Dhont), Shoplifters (Hirokazu Kore-eda) | Read

#10 Lawrence Garcia on Burning (Lee Chang-dong), Dogman (Matteo Garrone), In My Room (Ulrich Köhler), Mirai (Mamoru Hosoda) | Read

#11 Daniel Kasman on The Dead and the Others (João Salaviza & Renee Nader Messora), Ayka (Sergey Dvortsevoy), The Wild Pear Tree (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) | Read

#12 Lawrence Garcia on Sorry Angel (Christophe Honoré) and closing thoughts on the festival | Read

INTERVIEWS

BY ANNABEL BRADY-BROWN

Wang Bing for Dead Souls

BY DANIEL KASMAN

Ulrich Köhler for In My Room

BY DANIEL KASMAN & KURT WALKER

Cristina Gallego & Ciro Guerra for Birds of Passage

Sergei Loznitsa for Donbass

Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt for Diamantino

Fabrice Aragno for The Image Book

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