Post your questions for Claes Bang

The Danish star of the BBCโ€™s Dracula, Ruben ร–stlundโ€™s The Square and the new historical action-adventure William Tell is here to answer your questionsClaes Bang (โ€œClaesโ€ rhymes with โ€œfaceโ€, in case you were wondering) only became an actor by chance, af…

Love Trump? Hate MAGA? Where to escape if your team loses the US election.

We’ve pulled together a handy list of European safe spaces if you need to eject from America after Tuesday’s vote.

โ€˜Synthesisers can convey emotion tooโ€™: Zaho de Sagazan reinvents the French love song despite never falling in love

โ€˜I like not knowing what Iโ€™ll do,โ€™ says the 24-year-old who swept the board at the French Grammys and stole the show at Cannes film festival with her freeform dancing in socksFrom ร‰dith Piaf to Serge Gainsbourg, France is fiercely protective of the cha…

Trans actor Karla Sofรญa Gascรณn sues French far-right politician after โ€˜sexist insultโ€™

The actor, who became the first transgender woman to win the best actress prize at Cannes, had earlier dedicated her award to โ€˜all the trans people who are sufferingโ€™The first transgender woman to be awarded the best actress prize at the Cannes film fe…

Beating Hearts review โ€“ operatic French gangster film suffers from bloat

Cannes film festivalGilles Leloucheโ€™s new movie aims for a Springsteenesque blue-collar energy but buckles under the weight of its own naivetyGilles Leloucheโ€™s new film is a giant operatic crime drama of star-crossed lovers and hurt feelings; itโ€™s very…

French cinema tried to hide its violence against women. At Cannes, weโ€™re calling it out | Rokhaya Diallo

I took to the red carpet alongside other activists to highlight sexual violence. Now women of colour need a bigger place in the movement The 77th Cannes film festival reaches its climax on Saturday when all eyes will be on the Croisette, as the winners…

Grand Tour review โ€“ engaged coupleโ€™s sweet, strange colonial era hide-and-seek

Cannes film festivalMiguel Gomesโ€™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…

Parthenope review โ€“ Paolo Sorrentino contrives a facile, bikini-clad self-parody

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…

Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice depicts him as a rapist

Ali Abbasiโ€™s film, starring Sebastian Stan, presents a fictionalised account of an incident recorded in Ivana Trumpโ€™s 1990 divorce deposition, and since retractedDonald Trump is depicted as a rapist who assaulted his first wife, Ivana, in a new biopic…

โ€˜Information can be bent. Emotions are always honestโ€™: the film at the heart of Ukraineโ€™s agonising evacuations

Ivan Sautkinโ€™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 CannesThereโ€™s a moment in Ivan Sautkinโ€™s new…

Limonov: The Ballad review โ€“ Ben Whishaw brilliant as Russiaโ€™s outlaw bohemian

Cannes film festivalEduard Limonovโ€™s bizarre career, from rebel รฉmigrรฉ writer in New York to leader of a fascistic, militaristic political group, is told with gusto by Kirill SerebrennikovFascism, punk, euphoria and despair โ€ฆ itโ€™s all here, or mostly, …

German star at Cannes condemns โ€˜madnessโ€™ of protective culture for UK child actors

Cast member of Palme dโ€™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…

The Balconettes review โ€“ neighbours finding trouble in invitation to hot guyโ€™s flat

Cannes film festivalNoรฉmie Merlantโ€™s first film as a director is relentlessly silly, self-indulgent and unsuited to its themes of misogyny and sexual violenceHere to prove that โ€œactor projectโ€ movies are always the ones with the dodgiest acting is the …

Julie Keeps Quiet review โ€“ a tense volley of dysfunction at tennis academy

Cannes film festivalA star player at an elite tennis school decides to stay silent when the head coach is suspended in Leonardo Van Dijlโ€™s absorbing movie of things unsaid and subjects avoidedFilmgoers are currently gobbling up Luca Guadagninoโ€™s tennis…

Three Kilometres to the End of the World review โ€“ brutal self-denial in deepest Romania

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…

Francis Ford Coppola: US politics is at โ€˜the point where we might lose our republicโ€™

Speaking at Cannes, the director says Megalopolis, his reworking of ancient Romeโ€™s Catiline conspiracy, has become ever more prescientMegalopolis review โ€“ Coppolaโ€™s passion project is megabloated and megaboringThe US, whose founders tried to emulate th…

The Girl With the Needle review โ€“ horrific drama based on Denmarkโ€™s 1921 baby-killer case

Cannes film festival Loosely based on fact, Magnus van Hornโ€™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 TVโ€™s The Great Bri…

Wild Diamond review โ€“ French social-realist drama fuelled by TikTok energy

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…

The Second Act review โ€“ Quentin Dupieuxโ€™s likable meta comedy of actorsโ€™ private lives

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…

Greta Gerwig: โ€˜The number of female directors has gotten better. Weโ€™re not done yetโ€™

While this yearโ€™s Cannes film festival jury president declared her role โ€˜a dream come trueโ€™, storms over sexual abuse and workersโ€™ rights are expectedThe reviews were gushing on the first day of the 77th Cannes film festival, as Barbie director Greta G…

Cannes film festival faces strike disruption over seasonal workersโ€™ rights

Group will protest against governmentโ€™s treatment of freelance workers at festivals across FranceThe Cannes film festival is facing strike action as it opens next week and could see protests by projectionists, floor managers and press agents who are de…

Laurent Cantet, film-maker who tackled diversity and class in France, dies aged 63

Director of Palme dโ€™Or-winning film Entre les Murs (The Class) was much praised for humanism in projectsLaurent Cantet, the award-winning film-maker whose creations tackled some of the most complex issues of modern French society, including meritocracy…

Paolo Taviani, acclaimed director of classic Italian films, dies aged 92

The film-maker, who won the Palme dโ€™Or for 1977โ€™s Padre Padrone, was a towering presence for more than three decades, creating politically engaged works with his brother VittorioThe Italian film-maker Paolo Taviani, whose gritty biopic Padre Padrone wo…

RMN review โ€“ sickness beneath the skin as racism breaks out in Romanian village

Latest from Cristian Mungiu is a low-key drama about a multi-ethnic community in Transylvania who turn on a group of Sri Lankan immigrantsCristian Mungiu has returned with this dour, gloomy psychodrama of central European xenophobia: a Romanian-Brexity…