Cannes

The Eight Mountains – first-look review

By Rafa Sales Ross

Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch's is a poignant study of the friendship between two young men across four decades.

Tchaikovsky’s Wife – first-look review

By Mark Asch

Kirill Serebrennikov focuses on the relationship between one of Russia’s greatest composers and his adoring, but unloved, partner.

Final Cut – first-look review

By David Jenkins

Michel Hazanavicius comes up short in his underpowered remake of Shinichirou Ueda’s zom-com, One Cut of the Dead

Scarlet – first-look review

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

Pietro Marcello adapts Alexander Grin’s fairy tale about a poverty-stricken family with breathtaking results.

Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis biopic bids to get down with the kids

By Lucy Vipond

The Australian director appears to be courting younger viewers with his hotly-anticipated film about The King.

24 curious facts about the Cannes Film Festival

By Saskia Lloyd Gaiger

Some of the best nuggets of glitz and scandal throughout the history of the most famous international film festival.

At this year’s Cannes directors will once again be asked: Is cinema a dying art?

By Saskia Lloyd Gaiger

Forty years on from Wim Wenders’ documentary Room 666, this age-old existential question is set to come back around.

Mark Jenkin and Mia Hansen-Løve will unveil new films at the 54th Directors’ Fortnight

By David Jenkins

They’ll be joined by fellow luminaries Alex Garland and Pietro Marcello when the Quinzaine returns to Cannes next month.

Claire Denis and David Cronenberg headline the 2022 Cannes Film Festival

By David Jenkins

This year’s stacked line-up also includes new work Kelly Reichardt, Ruben Ostlünd and Park Chan-wook – but no David Lynch.

Juho Kuosmanen: ‘Steal from many different places and you can’t get caught!’

By David Jenkins

The director of Compartment No. 6 on the joys of filming on location – in this case, a vintage passenger train.

A handful of pre-announcements foretell a robust Cannes slate

By Charles Bramesco

A handful of big names — Elvis! George Miller! Tom Cruise! — have been locked in prior to the official selection.

Your guide to the major distribution deals from Cannes 2021

By Charles Bramesco

Here’s a full breakdown of who is bringing some of the year’s most-anticipated movies to the UK and US.

France – first-look review

By Mark Asch

Léa Seydoux plays a TV journalist in Bruno Dumont’s satire-of-sorts about France’s relationship with its media and itself.

Nitram – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

Justin Kurzel’s difficult drama about a notorious mass murderer falls into familiar pitfalls of the true crime genre.

Titane takes the Palme d’Or at an unusually stacked Cannes Film Festival

By Hannah Strong

Key awards also went to Nadav Lapid, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Leos Carax.

The Restless – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

A family struggles to deal with the devastating effects of their patriarch’s bipolar disorder in Joachim Lafosse’s tender drama.

Belle – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

A teenage girl finds online fame in Mamoru Hosoda’s internet-age update of Beauty and the Beast.

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