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.
Festivals

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.
Festivals

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.
Adolescent boy in striped jumper reading comics in a shop.
Festivals

Funny Pages – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

A teenage car­toon­ist search­es for authen­tic­i­ty in writer/​director Owen Kline’s pleas­ing­ly grub­by debut feature.
Vibrant, abstract flower arrangement with bold magenta, orange, and green hues.
Festivals

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.
Festivals

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.