Cannes

Limonov: The Ballad – first-look review

By Isaac Feldberg

Ben Whishaw rises to the occasion of essaying the poet, provocateur and political dissident Eduard Limonov.

Grand Tour – first-look review

By David Jenkins

A visually ravishing if emotionally and thematically opaque travelogue is the latest from Portuguese maestro, Miguel Gomes.

Universal Language – first-look review

By Charles Bramesco

The clashing cultures of Canada and Iran are fused in Matthew Rankin’s dryly comic follow-up to The Twentieth Century.

Julie Keeps Quiet – first-look review

By David Jenkins

A young tennis star refuses to open about an abusive coach in Leonardo Van Dijl’s impressive feature debut.

Emilia Perez – first-look review

By David Jenkins

This ghastly musical melodrama from Jacques Audiard tells of a Mexican cartel bosses’s gender affirming surgery.

Megalopolis – first-look review

By David Jenkins

Ignore the haters – this is the kaleidoscopic, enriching, Wellsian vision of a grand old master with nothing to lose.

Bird – first-look review

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

Andrea Arnold returns with a flighty kitchen sink reverie that sadly falls from grace in a muddled second half.

The Second Act – first-look review

By David Jenkins

The opening film of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival offers a limp metafictional critique of the modern film industry.

Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall wins the 2023 Palme d’Or

By David Jenkins

The psychological courtroom thriller with the great Sandra Hüller wins the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

La Chimera – first-look review

By Mark Asch

Josh O’Connor breaks out his halting Italian as a grave-robbing rascal in Alice Rohrwacher’s divine exploration of time, history and memory.

Kidnapped – first-look review

By Mark Asch

Italian veteran Marco Bellocchio’s adaptation of David Kertzer’s The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara is an occasionally enthralling, yet often staid and repetitive affair.

Last Summer – first-look review

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

French provocateur Catherine Breillat returns with strange film about a transgressive sexual relationship between a middle-aged lawyer and her teenage stepson.

The Pot-au-Feu – first-look review

By David Jenkins

Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel play late 19th century gourmands in Tran Ahn Hung’s scintillating epic of proto-foodie passions.

Close Your Eyes – first-look review

By David Jenkins

The long-awaited return of Spanish filmmaker Victor Erice is a slow-burn marvel which climaxes in a sequence of overwhelming profundity and mystery.

Killers of the Flower Moon – first-look review

By David Jenkins

Martin Scorsese’s wistful remembrance of tragedies that befell the Osage nation is a film of high seriousness and low spectacle.

Lost in the Night – first-look review

By David Jenkins

Mexican provocateur Amat Escalante makes a half-cocked bid for mainstream respectability in this intriguing tale of a young man’s torrid search for his missing mother.

Croisette wishes: 20 films we’d like to see at Cannes in 2023

By Charles Bramesco

Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, and Pedro Almodóvar number among the heavy hitters expected on the red carpet.

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