By Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent While the Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival was announced yesterday, Critics Week, the strand dedicated to first and second films which traditionally runs parallel to the fest, has unveiled a list of features and shorts that will get the “2020 Semaine de la Critique” label.
Critics Week was canceled along with with Directors Fortnight and ACID in April due to the coronavirus crisis, but the strand’s artistic director Charles Tesson and his committee went ahead and selected five movies and 10 shorts to receive a label.
As with Cannes’ Official Selection, the roster of this year’s Critics’ Week boasts a strong French presence with four local-language films out of the five.
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