Indie Movies Online at the Cannes Film Festival 2010 – reviews round-up

Was it really just a fortnight ago that we were mournfully cramming our sweat-stained clothes into our suitcases as we prepared to depart Cannes? Yes. Yes, it was. So, with memories of the Cannes Film Festival 2010 fast receding into the distance, allow us to take this opportunity to provide a neat 'n' tidy round-up of all the scores we dished out to the movies we caught at Cannes this year.

Between myself and Indie Movies editor Emma, we caught a grand total of 36 movies at Cannes 2010, although review marks were only assigned to 32 of those. Office schlocker Fired, Jean-Luc Godard's ker-razy Socialism, and the killer tyre of Rubber were all otherwise served by news articles, while Everything Will Be Fine, from Allegro director Christoffer Boe, will be subject of a future piece on Indie Movies. I have also excluded the two market screening reviews (future-sport anime Redline and the one, the only Trash Humpers) from this big round-up, in favour of confining myself to the films that were part of the official programme at Cannes this year.

So, in descending order of quality, here are the full Indie Movies scores from Cannes 2010:

5 out of 5

Another Year (Mike Leigh, Official Selection)

4.5 out of 5

The Housemaid (Im Sang-soo, Official Selection)

Lights Out (Fabrice Gobert, Un Certain Regard)

Heartbeats (Xavier Dolan, Un Certain Regard)

4 out of 5

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Official Selection) 

Kaboom (Gregg Araki, Midnight Screening) 

The Strange Case of Angelica (Manoel de Oliveira, Un Certain Regard) 

3.5 out of 5

Of Gods & Men (Xavier Beauvois, Official Selection) 

Outside the Law (Rachid Bouchareb, Official Selection) 

3 out of 5

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (Oliver Stone, Out of Competition)

Tender Son – The Frankenstein Project (Kornél Mundruczó, Official Selection) 

The Princess of Montpensier (Bertrand Tavernier, Official Selection) 

Outrage (Takeshi Kitano, Official Selection) 

Draquila – Italy Trembles (Sabina Guzzanti, Special Screening) 

Black Heaven (Gilles Marchand, Midnight Screening)

Tamara Drewe (Stephen Frears, Out of Competition) 

The Tree (Julie Bertucelli, Out of Competition) 

Life, Above All (Oliver Schmitz, Un Certain Regard) 

2.5 out of 5

Biutiful (Alejandor González Iñárritu, Official Selection) 

Poetry (Lee Chang-dong, Official Selection) 

Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami, Official Selection) 

La Nostra Vita (Daniele Luchetti, Official Selection) 

Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance, Un Certain Regard) 

2 out of 5

Tournée (Mathieu Amalric, Official Selection) 

Fair Game (Doug Liman, Official Selection) 

Chatroom (Hideo Nakata, Un Certain Regard) 

1 out of 5

My Joy (Sergei Loznitsa, Official Selection) 

Exodus: Burnt by the Sun 2 (Nikita Mikhalokov, Official Selection) 

Aurora (Cristi Puiu, Un Certain Regard) 

Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs) (Lodge Kerrigan, Un Certain Regard)