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Cannes Film Festival

A large dalmatian dog lying on an examination table in a veterinary clinic, with a veterinarian standing beside it.
Festivals

Dogman – first look review

by Adam Woodward

Mat­teo Gar­rone returns to the crime-stained streets of south­ern Italy for his lat­est social real­ist parable.
Anime scene with two young boys, one in white clothes falling through the sky, the other reaching up towards him against a bright blue sky with fluffy white clouds.
Festivals

Mirai – first look review

by Michael Leader

This delight­ful Japan­ese ani­mé is one of the high­lights of this year’s Direc­tors’ Fort­night programme.
A young woman with curly hair wearing a yellow coat standing on the steps of an aeroplane.
Festivals

Whitney – first look review

by David Jenkins

Kevin Mac­don­ald offers a rich and reveal­ing glance back at the life of trou­bled pop sen­sa­tion Whit­ney Houston.
Young person in orange top standing near tree with lost dog poster
Festivals

Under the Silver Lake – first look review

by David Jenkins

Andrew Garfield adopts the role of pop cul­ture gumshoe in David Robert Mitchell’s eccen­tric LA noir.
Young woman with long, dark hair looking serious.
Festivals

Asako I & II – first look review

by David Jenkins

This poignant trea­tise on love at first sight is one of the best films in the 2018 Cannes com­pe­ti­tion line-up.
A middle-aged man with a stern expression, wearing a dark coat and scarf, in a crowd.
Festivals

At War – first look review

by Ella Kemp

Cannes dar­ling Stephane Brizé returns with a trudg­ing, cacoph­o­nous insight into the guts of indus­tri­al activism.
A man in a navy jumper intently examining a miniature architectural model on a table.
Festivals

The House That Jack Built – first look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Lars von Tri­er, provo­ca­teur at large, returns to the fray with a mad, bad and dan­ger­ous ser­i­al killer opus.
Two men, one wearing a plaid shirt and the other wearing a yellow shirt, both with facial hair, stand in a room with posters on the wall.
Festivals

BlacKkKlansman – first look review

by Adam Woodward

Spike Lee’s lat­est inter­ro­ga­tion of racism in Amer­i­ca is his most enter­tain­ing and thought-pro­vok­ing film in years.
Person in red coat and another person in the background on rocky terrain.
Festivals

Happy as Lazzaro – first look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Alice Rohrwach­er brings a touch of rus­tic mag­i­cal real­ism to Cannes with an enig­mat­ic film about a young Ital­ian farmhand.
Two people lying on a bed, embracing one another. Cluttered bedside table with papers and objects.
Festivals

Shoplifters – first look review

by David Jenkins

Anoth­er bit­ter­sweet bon-bon con­cern­ing the agree­able hum of domes­tic life from Japan’s Hirokazu Koreeda.