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Two people embracing on a striped sofa in a room with a lamp.
Festivals

Toni Erdmann – first look review

by David Jenkins

One of the great Cannes competition films of recent years comes from a little-known German director.
A man sits alone in a dimly lit room, a pensive expression on his face.
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Neruda – first look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

The great Pablo Larraín delivers a stirring, soaring portrait of Chile’s most treasured poet.
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Slack Bay – first look review

by David Jenkins

Director Bruno Dumont invites us on a French sea-side holiday with a macabre twist.
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#CannesSoMale? Not So Fast…

by Sarah Jilani

The Cannes Film Festival is slowly but surely setting out to promote gender equality, and others will follow.
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I, Daniel Blake – first look review

by David Jenkins

Ken Loach returns to Cannes with a ranty anti-government, anti-bureaucracy screed. Not all of it lands.
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Staying Vertical – first look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

French director Alain Guiraudie follows up Stranger by the Lake with another alluring and elliptical thriller.
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Sieranevada – first look review

by David Jenkins

One of the progenitors of the Romanian New Wave returns to the Cannes competition with a rambling family drama.
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Café Society – first look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Despite an effervescent Kristen Stewart, Woody Allen’s frothy period comedy fails to deliver a coherent message.
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In Praise of Taxi Driver

by Jen Grimble

How a 33-year-old Martin Scorsese shook the film world when he brought his nihilistic neo-noir to Cannes.
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Want to know what happened to the subject of viral doc Kony 2012?

by Alex Chambers

Cannes-bound Wrong Elements revisits this highly controversial figure.