Arthur Harari’s The Unknown and Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord both received a wide range of scores on Screen International’s 2026 Cannes jury grid.
Body-swap mystery The Unknown sees Léa Seydoux and Niels Schneider lead the story of a man who wakes up in the body of an unknown woman after they spend the night together. Harari is the Oscar-winning co-screenwriter of Anatomy Of A Fall and returns to Cannes with his third feature as a director.
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Five of our 12 critics awarded The Unknown three stars (good), however two X’s (bad) from Filfan.com’s Ahmed Shawky and Meduza’ s Anton Dolan, plus a mix of one-stars (poor) and two-stars (bad) dragged the average down to a final 1.9.
Mungiu’s Fjord is his fifth film in Competition and tells the story of a Romanian father (Sebastian Stan) and Norwegian mother (Renate Reinsve) living in a remote Norwegian village whose children’s behaviour elicits local suspicion.
Three of our critics awarded the film a top score of four stars (excellent), but it also scored two one-stars and five two-stars, settling on a final average of 2.5.
This was the same score as Mungiu’s previous grid appearance - R.M.N. in 2022. He was joint top (with Amour) in 2012 with Beyond The Hills, scoring a 3.4.
The leading film this year is still Pawel Pawlikowski’s Fatherland on 3.3, with Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Minotaur and Pedro Almodovar’s Bitter Christmas next up.
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