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Cannes Film Festival

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Festivals

The Super 8 Years – first-look review

by Mark Asch

Annie Ernaux and her son David piece togeth­er a mag­i­cal home movie essay on mar­riage, moth­er­hood and the whole damn thing.
Silhouettes of women in ornate costumes against a fiery orange and yellow backdrop.
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The Five Devils – first-look review

by Caitlin Quinlan

A family’s qui­et moun­tain life is dis­rupt­ed by the arrival of a rel­a­tive in Lea Mysius’ beguil­ing sec­ond feature.
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Festivals

Falcon Lake – first-look review

by Steph Green

First-time direc­tor Char­lotte Le Bön draws out sweet per­for­mances from her young co-stars in this idyl­lic coming-of-ager.
Four young children, two boys and two girls, sitting on a wooden bench outdoors. They wear casual clothing and have relaxed expressions.
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War Pony – first-look review

by Charles Bramesco

Gina Gam­mel and Riley Keough’s debut fea­ture focus­es on two Oglala Lako­ta teenagers as they come of age in South Dakota.
Black-and-white image of a man in a suit playing the piano on stage, his arm raised in a performative gesture.
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Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind – first-look review

by Mark Asch

Ethan Coen’s solo debut effort is a rib­ald and ener­gis­ing archive mon­tage on the life of taboo-bust­ing rock­er, Jer­ry Lee Lewis.
Portrait of a woman with dark hair, wearing a black headscarf, with an intense gaze against a blurred, colourful background.
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Holy Spider – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Ali Abbasi’s har­row­ing Iran­ian noir tells the true sto­ry of Saeed Hanaei, who mur­dered 16 female sex work­ers between 2000 – 2001.
A man helping a young boy aim a rifle in a snowy forest.
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RMN – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Roman­ian direc­tor Cris­t­ian Mungiu returns with a superb social real­ist west­ern with its fin­ger on the errat­ic pulse of Europe.
A woman in a dark jacket standing on a city street at night, surrounded by dimly lit buildings and pedestrians.
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Return to Seoul – first look review

by David Jenkins

Davy Chou’s bit­ter­sweet com­e­dy of a Kore­an adoptee search­ing for her bio­log­i­cal par­ents is pow­ered by a daz­zling lead performance.
Shirtless young man with flowers in hair holding smartphone.
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Triangle of Sadness – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

A young mod­el cou­ple find them­selves on the hol­i­day from hell in the lat­est provo­ca­tion from Sweden’s Ruben Östlund.
Two individuals, a light-skinned person and a dark-skinned person, seated together in a dimly lit room.
Festivals

Three Thousand Years of Longing – first-look review

by Catherine Bray

George Miller returns to our screens with an ambi­tious tale of desire and mag­ic fea­tur­ing Til­da Swin­ton and Idris Elba.