A feature from a young French director and a short film from Sweden picked up Saturday the top prizes at Critics' Week, a side section at the Cannes film festival aimed at fostering new talent. French film-maker Nassim Amaouche, 32, took the prize for best feature with a movie on the last residents of a dying industrial town titled "Adieu ...

Vittorio Storaro, one of the greatest cinematographers in the world, has worked with Bernardo Bertolucci on films from The Spider's Stratagem to The Sheltering Sky and, in what is perhaps the high point of his career, was responsible for the extraordinary appearance of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now. The restoration of his colour photography is the most dramatic ...

Most dramatic treatments of the Paris événements of May 1968 have been mocking or satirical. Maurice Hatton's enjoyable film Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition, made in 1968 while the events were still hot, sends up a posturing Trotskyist (played by John Thaw) who visits Paris at the time of the uprising and gains ...