Cannes Film Festival | Little White Lies

Cannes Film Festival

A young girl with shoulder-length brown hair wearing a black coat and purple shirt, looking directly at the camera with a serious expression.
Festivals

Love According to Dalva – first-look review

by Alexandria Slater

Emmanuelle Nicot paints an achingly beautiful portrait of friendship, recovery and identity through a young girl’s sexual abuse story.
A man in a red and grey hooded jacket stands holding a microphone, speaking to a young boy in a blue jacket.
Festivals

Tori and Lokita – first-look review

by Mark Asch

The Dardenne brothers return with a harrowing story of human trafficking in Belgium, centring on two young migrants.
Two women standing in a dimly lit, purple-tinged corridor.
Festivals

The Silent Twins – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance star in Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s ambitious but flawed biographical feature.
Blurred image of an unidentified person's face, with warm, reddish-orange tones.
Festivals

De Humani Corporis Fabrica – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor’s humanist portrait of care, surgery and technology is one of the highlights of Cannes 2022.
A woman in a wheelchair using a mobile phone and smoking a cigarette, with a polka dot scarf covering her face.
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Sick of Myself – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

A narcissistic couple engage in a constant game of one-upmanship in Kristoffer Borgli’s disappointingly one-note feature.
Two people, a woman and a man, stand in a dim, warm-toned room with books on shelves behind them.
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Crimes of the Future – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

David Cronenberg’s return to filmmaking can’t quite deliver on its promise that surgery is the new sex.
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Funny Pages – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

A teenage cartoonist searches for authenticity in writer/​director Owen Kline’s pleasingly grubby debut feature.
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Moonage Daydream – first-look review

by Ed Gibbs

This multi-sensory look at David Bowie’s life and career is an all-consuming affair that explores and safeguards the man’s legacy.
Two people, a man and a woman, looking intently at each other in a dimly lit room.
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Decision to Leave – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

A police detective forms a dangerous bond with a woman suspected of murdering her husband in Park Chan-wook’s swooning crime drama.
Two people with their heads close together, a blonde woman and a dark-haired man, looking contemplative in an outdoor setting.
Festivals

Forever Young – first-look review

by Steph Green

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi mines her memories attending the prestigious Théâtre des Amandiers for this nostalgia-soaked drama.