Cannes 2008

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Video: Reel review: The Class

Xan Brooks reviews last year's surprise Palme d'Or winner – a thriller in the guise of a social-realist arthouse movie

Xan Brooks

27, Feb, 2009 @3:16 PM

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Film trailer: The Class (Entre les Murs)

Laurent Cantet's Palme d'Or-winning film which chronicles a year in the life of teacher at a multicultural, inner-city French high school

19, Feb, 2009 @9:59 AM

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Film review: Blindness

Julianne Moore watches civilisation teeter on the brink in this intelligent, tightly constructed, supremely confident thriller

Peter Bradshaw

21, Nov, 2008 @12:01 AM

Quite a handful

John Harris: Oh dear: a new film about that pint-sized anti-American Diego Maradona will make Christopher Hitchens et al very happy indeed

John Harris

04, Jun, 2008 @6:18 PM

Top of the class

Lanie Goodman meets the French director who made a film about an unruly classroom - and struck gold at Cannes

Lanie Goodman

26, May, 2008 @11:09 PM

Agnès Poirier: The new revolution

Agnès Poirier: This year's winner of the Palme d'Or reveals a France finally ready to embrace the 21st century

Agnès Poirier

26, May, 2008 @11:01 PM

Leader: In praise of ... Synecdoche

Leader: American writer-director Charlie Kaufman has achieved the perhaps unprecedented feat of injecting a dash of glamour into grammar

Leader

26, May, 2008 @11:01 PM

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Pure class as French school drama wins Palme d'Or

French director Laurent Cantet is surprise winner of festival's top prize, while British drama Hunger is named best first feature

Mark Brown, arts correspondent

25, May, 2008 @12:43 PM

Cannes 2008: Morality comes to the Croisette

Jason Solomons at Cannes film festival: A sense of realism illuminates the best at Cannes this year as the festival's line-up of gangsters and revolutionaries offer power without pyrotechnics

Jason Solomons

24, May, 2008 @11:04 PM

Jason Solomons: Trash Cannes

The dirt on Paul Newman | Abbie's Fanny | British Funk Institute | Boujis Cannes | Spike Lee

Jason Solomons

24, May, 2008 @11:04 PM

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Confusion reigns in latest Kaufman offering at Cannes

Synecdoche director admits debut is difficult to say and even harder to understand

Mark Brown in Cannes

24, May, 2008 @10:43 PM

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Muted festival is fading to a close

Day 10: A more restrained Cannes is starting to empty. It might not be a standout year but the films have been fantastic

Xan Brooks

23, May, 2008 @5:08 PM

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