The actor, who became the first transgender woman to win the best actress prize at Cannes, had earlier dedicated her award to ‘all the trans people who are suffering’The first transgender woman to be awarded the best actress prize at the Cannes film fe…
Cannes film festivalGilles Lelouche’s new movie aims for a Springsteenesque blue-collar energy but buckles under the weight of its own naivetyGilles Lelouche’s new film is a giant operatic crime drama of star-crossed lovers and hurt feelings; it’s very…
Cannes film festivalMiguel Gomes’s beguiling and bewildering story follows a jittery fiance fleeing his intended across the British empire, and her hot pursuitOnce again, Portuguese auteur Miguel Gomes delivers a film in which the most complex sophisti…
The heroine is a victim of her own beauty in this exercise in languorous image-making that is too conceited to allow any emotional investmentPaolo Sorrentino, for over 20 years one of the most vibrant and distinctive film-makers, is coming close to sel…
Ali Abbasi’s film, starring Sebastian Stan, presents a fictionalised account of an incident recorded in Ivana Trump’s 1990 divorce deposition, and since retractedDonald Trump is depicted as a rapist who assaulted his first wife, Ivana, in a new biopic…
Ivan Sautkin’s work as a volunteer helping people to safety gave him rare access to the trauma faced by people forced from their homes. The director relives the challenges of making the film as it screens in CannesThere’s a moment in Ivan Sautkin’s new…
Cannes film festivalEduard Limonov’s bizarre career, from rebel émigré writer in New York to leader of a fascistic, militaristic political group, is told with gusto by Kirill SerebrennikovFascism, punk, euphoria and despair … it’s all here, or mostly, …
Cast member of Palme d’Or contender shot in Kent says the high number of chaperones and intimacy coordinators on set was over the top Is Britain leading the way in protecting young people and children from the potential traumas of working on a film set…
Cannes film festivalNoémie Merlant’s first film as a director is relentlessly silly, self-indulgent and unsuited to its themes of misogyny and sexual violenceHere to prove that “actor project” movies are always the ones with the dodgiest acting is the …
Group sex. Cannibalism. Cults. Doppelgängers. Messiah figures. Dogs.
Yórgos Lánthimos returns to his sick roots with his very own spin on The Twilight Zone. And it’s a blast.
Screening in Competition, Andrea Arnold’s new film manages to fuse social and magical realism, in a harsh yet uplifting tale that will leave you ready to take flight.
Cannes film festivalA star player at an elite tennis school decides to stay silent when the head coach is suspended in Leonardo Van Dijl’s absorbing movie of things unsaid and subjects avoidedFilmgoers are currently gobbling up Luca Guadagnino’s tennis…
Cannes film festivalA drama of despair plays out in a remote village, as a debt-ridden father is mortified to discover his son is gay Here is a self-laceratingly painful tale of repression and denial in a remote Romanian village in the Danube delta, di…
Speaking at Cannes, the director says Megalopolis, his reworking of ancient Rome’s Catiline conspiracy, has become ever more prescientMegalopolis review – Coppola’s passion project is megabloated and megaboringThe US, whose founders tried to emulate th…
Cannes film festival Loosely based on fact, Magnus van Horn’s fictionalised true crime nightmare leaves you with a shiver of pure fearJust in case you were thinking that this is an upbeat story of a sweet young seamstress winning BBC TV’s The Great Bri…
Cannes film festivalFirst-time actor Agathe Riedinger is a wannabe influencer from the wrong side of the tracks in this forthright and fluent filmFeature first-timer Agathe Riedinger is bringing the TikTok energy for this story of a wannabe Insta influ…
Cannes film festivalWith help from an A-list cast, Dupieux brings his customary mischief to an amiable tale of imposture and role playCannes can always do worse than choose a comedy for its opening gala, and the festival is off to an amiable, entertain…
While this year’s Cannes film festival jury president declared her role ‘a dream come true’, storms over sexual abuse and workers’ rights are expectedThe reviews were gushing on the first day of the 77th Cannes film festival, as Barbie director Greta G…
Once a celebration of arthouse raunch, the film festival has had to change in the #MeToo era. Is that why, on screen and off, pooches are everywhere this year? Our writer goes walkies on the Côte d’AzurOne of the most eagerly anticipated talents about …
