Overview
- Red Rocks premiered this week in Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival and opened reviews focused on its bold choice to center very young children in a feature‑length, docu‑style film.
- Critics singled out Carlos Alfonso Corral’s cinematography for creating striking Mediterranean imagery that gives the film a radiant, child‑eye visual identity.
- Reviewers also raised consistent objections to the screenplay and structure, calling the plot thin, occasionally padded and better suited to a short than a full feature.
- Multiple critics pointed to uneven filmmaking choices, naming rough editing, conspicuous CGI in dangerous sequences and awkward formal shifts as distracting from the film’s authenticity.
- The coverage frames Red Rocks as a tonal turn for Bruno Dumont that deepens questions about his long habit of casting non‑professional performers and what using very young children on camera means for ethics and audience reception.