Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch's is a poignant study of the friendship between two young men across four decades.
By Mark Asch
Kirill Serebrennikov focuses on the relationship between one of Russia’s greatest composers and his adoring, but unloved, partner.
Michel Hazanavicius comes up short in his underpowered remake of Shinichirou Ueda’s zom-com, One Cut of the Dead
Pietro Marcello adapts Alexander Grin’s fairy tale about a poverty-stricken family with breathtaking results.
By Lucy Vipond
The Australian director appears to be courting younger viewers with his hotly-anticipated film about The King.
Some of the best nuggets of glitz and scandal throughout the history of the most famous international film festival.
Forty years on from Wim Wenders’ documentary Room 666, this age-old existential question is set to come back around.
They’ll be joined by fellow luminaries Alex Garland and Pietro Marcello when the Quinzaine returns to Cannes next month.
This year’s stacked line-up also includes new work Kelly Reichardt, Ruben Ostlünd and Park Chan-wook – but no David Lynch.
The director of Compartment No. 6 on the joys of filming on location – in this case, a vintage passenger train.
A handful of big names — Elvis! George Miller! Tom Cruise! — have been locked in prior to the official selection.
Here’s a full breakdown of who is bringing some of the year’s most-anticipated movies to the UK and US.
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.
Justin Kurzel’s difficult drama about a notorious mass murderer falls into familiar pitfalls of the true crime genre.
Key awards also went to Nadav Lapid, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Leos Carax.
A family struggles to deal with the devastating effects of their patriarch’s bipolar disorder in Joachim Lafosse’s tender drama.
A teenage girl finds online fame in Mamoru Hosoda’s internet-age update of Beauty and the Beast.