Cannes, 5/18.

"We've seen a number of truly terrific pictures here this year, but there is a danger that they will eventually start to blur, that we'll sit on the plane at the end convinced that all we've sat through is one extraordinarily long movie about cartoon hunger strikers who've gone blind and are being forced to fight for the heavyweight championship of the world," writes the Guardian's Xan Brooks.

Twitch's Todd Brown roams the market and finds a few promising items. More.

Films-so-far roundups: Anthony Kaufman (indieWIRE), Jonathan Romney (Independent) and Jason Solomons (Observer).

News & biz roundups: Charlotte Higgins (Guardian) and IndieWIRE (more).

Notes: Erica Abeel (Filmmaker), Eugene Hernandez, Peter Knegt, Anne Thompson (Variety) and Steven Zeitchik (Hollywood Reporter).

Online viewing tip. Mark Kermode is vlogging from his balcony.

Posted by dwhudson at May 18, 2008 11:58 AM