Koji Fukada’s Nagi Notes and Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s A Woman’s Life kicked off Screen International’s 2026 Cannes jury grid with mixed scores.
Japanese drama Nagi Notes received a decent 2.5 average from the critics. Scores ranged from a four-star (excellent) via Katja Nicodemus (Die Zeit, Germany) to a one-star rating from Mathieu Macheret (Le Monde, France) with the rest comprising two- and three-stars (average and good).
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Set in a rural Japanese town, Nagi Notes centres on a sculptor, living in the shadow of a past love who continues to shape her art, finding welcome distraction in a visit from her former sister-in-law.
Critics were less impressed with French drama A Woman’s Life which landed with an average of 1.9. Macheret, Kong Rithdee (Bangkok Post, Thailand) and Ahmed Shawky (filfan.com, Egypt) gave it just one-star, while Screen and Nicomedus gave it three stars and the rest gave it two.
Bourgeois-Tacquet’s second feature stars Lea Drucker as a surgeon struggling to balance her hospital duties and private life, but is stirred up by a novelist (Mélanie Thierry) who comes to observe her as research for a book.
There are 22 films in competition this year and 12 critics scoring each film out of four. Last year’s jury grid was jointly topped by Sergei Loznitsa’s Two Prosecutors and Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just An Accident with 3.1.
The next films to land on this year’s grid will be Asghar Farhadi’s Parallel Tales and Pawel Pawlikowski’s Fatherland.
The jury grid is updating live on screendaily.com, in addition to being printed in our Cannes dailies.
The leading score ever on the grid remains the 3.8 for Burning in 2018.
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