Cannes 2008
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
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
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
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
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
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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