NEWS: Cannes Critics’ Week Unveils Its Lineup1 min read
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Lorcan Finnegan’s science-fiction thriller Vivarium with Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots, Jérémy Clapin’s fantasy-filled animated feature I Lost My Body, and Hlynur Pálmason’s Icelandic drama A White, White Day are among the 11 films set to compete at Critics’ Week, the section dedicated to first and second films that runs parallel with the Cannes Film Festival.
Vivarium, described by Critics’ Week’s artistic director Charles Tesson as reminiscent of The Twilight Zone and The Truman Show, follows a young couple (Eisenberg and Poots) who have just moved into a new housing development and find themselves in a maze of identical homes and a surreal world.
A White, White Day marks Pálmason’s follow up to his 2017 feature debut, Winter Brothers, which won three prizes at Locarno, followed by a healthy festival run. A White, White Day stars Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson (Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald) as an off-duty police officer who is grieving the recent death of his wife in a car accident and begins to suspect another local man of having had an affair with her.
Image credit: Festival de Cannes
