Festival Circuit 2026

[Finch]

Everytime, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma and the animated film Iron Boy are the three films I'm most intrigued by. I also read very positive takes on the French film Orange Flavored Wedding whose supporters all said should have been in the competition instead. The Samurai and the Prisoner seems to have been the best reviewed Japanese film at the festival although a lot of critics whose opinions I trust found it exhausting to watch in spite of its formal qualities. Sad that the Koreeda was pretty unanimously considered a misfire.

[Red Screamer]

The biggest competition hits on the Cahiers grid were: Notre salut (Marré), the James Gray, and the Almodovar, with overall good ratings also to the Hamaguchi, the Dreamed Adventure (Grisebach), and Hope (Ha).

Out of competition, there were positive responses to the Cavalier, the Mandico, La Gradiva (Atlan), and 9 Temples to Heaven (Chidgasornpongse), plus strongly divided ones to the Harari (ie Triet’s co-writer), the Dumont, and the animated Dupieux.

[Never Cursed]

Harari’s film was in competition, the people who liked it really wanted Seydoux to win Actress