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Cannes Film Festival

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Festivals

Le Redoutable – first look review

by David Jenkins

A light but ultimately unnecessary recreation of Jean-Luc Godard’s late ​’60s from director Michel Hazanavicius.
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120 Beats Per Minute – first look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Robin Campillo’s rousing dramatisation of ​’90s AIDS activism in France is a sure-fire Palme d’Or contender.
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The Square – first look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

This barbed satire of art world pomposity questions the core beliefs of civilised society.
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Lover For a Day – first look review

by David Jenkins

Another quietly astounding monochrome miniature on love and other demons from the great French director Philippe Garrel.
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Visages Villages – first look review

by David Jenkins

Agnès Varda douses the French landscape with art with the help of her new friend JR in this wonderfully eccentric road movie.
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Let the Sunshine In – first look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

The art of flirting and flirting as art are the subjects of this extraordinary romcom from Claire Denis.
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Barbara – first look review

by David Jenkins

A sultry and sensational performance from Jeanne Balibar fuels Mathieu Amalric’s experimental music biopic.
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Okja – first look review

by David Jenkins

Meat is murder in Bong Joon-ho’s rollicking fantasy satire about a girl and her pet pig taking on global capitalism.
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Jupiter’s Moon – first look review

by David Jenkins

Christ returns to Earth in the form of a Syrian refugee in Kornél Mundruczó’s overblown B‑movie.
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Wonderstruck – first look review

by David Jenkins

Todd Haynes returns with a kid-friendly follow-up to Carol whose parts are more interesting than the sum total.