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Cannes Film Festival

Three men in dark suits gathered around a table in a dimly lit green room.
Festivals

Petrov’s Flu – first-look review

by Mark Asch

Kir­ill Serebrennikov’s deliri­ous lat­est offers a strik­ing­ly sin­gu­lar vision of life in post-Sovi­et Russia.
Older man embracing younger woman on rug in living room.
Festivals

Deception – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Arnaud Desplechin judi­cious­ly adapts Philip Roth’s ver­bose 1990 nov­el about an adul­ter­ous author.
Group of people seated around a table in a room, some smoking cigarettes. Muted colours and dim lighting create a moody atmosphere.
Festivals

Where Is Anne Frank? – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Ari Folman’s ani­mat­ed retelling of the wartime diarist’s trag­ic sto­ry falls foul of some ques­tion­able artis­tic license.
Woman singing on stage with fairy lights in the background, performing at a dimly lit venue.
Festivals

Bergman Island – first-look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

A mas­ter­ful dis­sec­tion of love, mem­o­ry and auto­bi­og­ra­phy from the ever-won­der­ful French mae­stro, Mia Hansen-Løve.
A man in a military uniform stands in a narrow street, between two buildings with wooden doors and barred windows.
Festivals

The French Dispatch – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Wes Anderson’s star-stud­ded, mul­ti-chap­tered trib­ute to The New York is his most impres­sion­is­tic work to date.
Circular black and white eye icon with radiating lines.
Festivals

JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Oliv­er Stone is at his most con­spir­a­cy-mind­ed in this enter­tain­ing but out­landish doc on the JFK assassination.
Person in a white dress standing in a wheat field, with a clear sky in the background.
Festivals

Flag Day – first-look review

by Mark Asch

Sean Penn returns to Cannes five years after the fias­co of The Last Face with a some­how even more calami­tous fam­i­ly drama.
Two Asian individuals, a man and a woman, sitting in the front seats of a car.
Festivals

Drive My Car – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Ryusuke Ham­aguchi adapts Muruka­mi and deliv­ers a mas­ter­piece study on the fick­le dynam­ics of human emotion.
A person gazing out of a car window, their face in profile and partially obscured by hair blowing in the wind.
Festivals

Compartment No. 6 – first-look review

by Mark Asch

This del­i­cate Finnish com­e­dy of social and polit­i­cal man­ners has all the trap­pings of an art­house crowd-pleaser.
Four young musicians performing on stage, two playing electric guitars and one playing a bass guitar, in a black and white image.
Festivals

The Velvet Underground – first-look review

by Michael Leader

Todd Haynes’ first doc­u­men­tary takes a thrilling, cau­tious­ly ambiva­lent look at the NY art-rock demigods.