Lea Seydoux

… radical in its attention to its characters’ lives: they are treated as both historically particular and singular, in the way that each rose is beautiful and unique.

… a series of fascinating, albeit disturbing, moments in a languid encapsulation of Cronenberg’s obsessions.

This year, Cannes critics were largely united in their belief that Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Minotaur and Pawel Pawlikowski’s Fatherland were the best films in the competition. Both films won major prizes,

… deliberately controlled, almost austere.

... an original, heartfelt, surreal, immersive, beautiful and poetic adventure set in this great southern land.

It may lack vitality in the action scenes, but it still delivers on everything that makes the Daniel Craig era worth celebrating.

… the in-depth braininess of the script and the sublime film craft (Anita Roth’s editing during the final act is bonkers in all the right ways) create a compelling and

It’s not perfect, it could be tighter and there’s an overriding sense of the ridiculous, but it’s one of those films that grows on you.

The French actor is having a moment.

With her latest, One Fine Morning, the French filmmaker once again mines her own personal life to create something transcendent.