Cannes Hierarchy

Best
Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

Standouts
Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance)
Tuesday, After Christmas (Radu Muntean)
Ha Ha Ha (Hong Sangsoo)

Quite Good
Le quattro volte (Michelangelo Frammartino)
My Joy (Sergei Loznitsa)
Benda Bilili! (Florent de la Tullaye & Renaud Barret)
Young Girls in Black (Jean Paul Civeyrac)
Picco (Philip Koch)

Good
Of Gods and Men (Xavier Beauvois)
I Wish I Knew (Jia Zhang-ke)
The City Below (Christoph Hochhäusler)
The Strange Case of Angelica (Manoel de Oliveira)
Poetry (Lee Chang-dong)
The Joy (Felipe Bragança & Marina Meliande)
Lily Sometimes (Fabienne Berthaud)
On Tour (Mathieu Amalric)
Two Gates of Sleep (Alistair Banks Griffin)
Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs) (Lodge Kerrigan)
Carancho (Pablo Trapero)
Adrienn Pál (Ágnes Kocsis)
The Housemaid (Im Sangsoo)
The Wanderer (Avishai Sivan)

More Interesting Than Watchable
Aurora (Cristi Puiu)
Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard)

Decent
Udaan (Vikramaditya Motwane)
A Screaming Man (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun)
The Princess of Montensier (Bertrand Tavernier)
The Lips (Ivan Fund & Santiago Loza)
R U There (David Verbeek)
Tender Son – The Frankenstein Project (Kornél Mondruczó)
All Good Children (Alicia Duffy)
Heartbeats (Xavier Dolan)

Problems
Shit Year (Cam Archer)
We Are What We Are (Jorge Michel Grau)
Chongqing Blues (Xiaoshuai Wang)
Route Irish (Ken Loach)
Everything Will Be Fine (Christoffer Boe)
You All Are Captains (Oliver Laxe)

Big Problems
The Tiger Factory (Ming Jin Woo)
The Light Thief (Aktan Arym Kubat)
October (Daniel & Diego Vega)
The Tree (Julie Bertucelli)

Bad
Little Baby Jesus of Flandr (Gust Van den Berghe)
Lights Out (Fabrice Gobert)
The Silent House (Gustavo Hernández)



——————————————————————————————————————————-

10 That I’m Most Interested in Re-Visiting
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
The Strange Case of Angelica (Manoel de Oliveira)
Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard) – with real English subtitles, please!
The City Below (Christoph Hochhäusler)
Aurora (Cristi Puiu)
Le quattro volte (Michelangelo Frammartino)
My Joy (Sergei Loznitsa)
Tuesday, After Christmas (Radu Muntean)
The Lips (Ivan Fund & Santiago Loza)
Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)