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Cannes Film Festival

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Festivals

Titane takes the Palme d’Or at an unusually stacked Cannes Film Festival

by Hannah Strong

Key awards also went to Nadav Lapid, Apichat­pong Weerasethakul and Leos Carax.
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Festivals

The Restless – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

A fam­i­ly strug­gles to deal with the dev­as­tat­ing effects of their patriarch’s bipo­lar dis­or­der in Joachim Lafosse’s ten­der drama.
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Festivals

Belle – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

A teenage girl finds online fame in Mamoru Hosoda’s inter­net-age update of Beau­ty and the Beast.
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Paris, 13th District – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Cannes favourite Jacques Audi­ard returns to the Croisette with a low-key love sto­ry set around the fringes of the French capital.
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Memoria – first-look review

by Mark Asch

Til­da Swin­ton is extra­or­di­nary in a film by Apichat­pong Weerasethakul which com­pris­es of ​“pure vibes”.
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Festivals

Hold Me Tight – first-look review

by Adam Solomons

Math­ieu Amalric’s engross­ing fam­i­ly dra­ma is fur­ther proof that Vicky Krieps is one of the world’s most excit­ing actors.
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Red Rocket – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Simon Rex is superbly cast in Sean Baker’s sparkling char­ac­ter study of a porn actor well past his pomp.
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Little Palestine (Diary of a Siege) – first-look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Abdal­lah Al-Khatib’s extra­or­di­nary doc­u­men­tary cap­tures dai­ly life in the largest Pales­tin­ian refugee camp.
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Festivals

Titane – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Julia Ducournau’s sen­sa­tion­al sec­ond fea­ture offers an intox­i­cat­ing mix of grease, gore and gasoline.
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Festivals

A Hero – first-look review

by Adam Solomons

Asghar Farhadi’s excep­tion­al Iran-cen­tred dra­ma is a soul­ful reflec­tion on the moral­i­ty of crime.