Cannes Film Festival

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  These Final Hours

  Review preview for These Final Hours

  A compelling, interesting and well-acted redemption tale.

  The world is about to end and a young man is heading to one last party when he encounters a young girl searching for her father.
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  The Wonders

  Review preview for The Wonders

  Wisdom is quiet and the future a mystery

  Nothing will be the same at the end of this summer for Gelsomina and her three younger sisters.
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  Li'l Quinquin

  Review preview for Li'l Quinquin

  Dumont - for all the outlandishness of the film in other aspects - prioritises a messy realism over straightforward likeability in relation to his protagonists.

  A blackly comic murder mystery develops in a small town in northern France.
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  Queen And Country

  Review preview for Queen And Country

  Anchoring the audience with a perennial fence-sitter allows more room for the inevitable impact of the characters' stories, without the weight of an absolute ideological argument.

  An Englishman signs up to fight in the Korean War.
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  The Tribe

  Review preview for The Tribe

  Slaboshpytskiy goes to show, first through Anna and then the actions of Sergey that some transactions can hold a lot more - and worse - than we have bargained for.

  A deaf teenager runs into gang trouble at a boarding school.
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  The Salvation

  Review preview for The Salvation

  War by any other name

  A man who kills his family's murderer faces the wrath of a violent gang - with nobody to help him.
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  Force Majeure

  Review preview for Force Majeure

  The couple's tension merely becomes irritating after a while.

  A family find themselves tearing apart after an avalanche on a skiing holiday.
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  The Tale Of Princess Kaguya

  Review preview for The Tale Of Princess Kaguya

  The relatable, compassionately told story should easily appeal to both adults and younger folk.

  The story of a beautiful princess found in bamboo who goes on to be wooed by the Emperor of Japan.
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  French Riviera

  Review preview for French Riviera

  Production designer Olivier Radot and costume designer Pascaline Chavanne revel in the colors and textures of Seventies casino ambiance.

  Nice, 1976, Following the failure of her marriage, Agnès Le Roux returns from Africa to her mother Renée, owner of the Casino Le Palais de la Méditerranée and falls in love with Renée's confidant, Maurice Agnelet.
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  Love At First Fight

  Review preview for Love At First Fight

  Cinematographer David Cailley, the director's brother, offers stark beauty and wicked humor.

  Between his friends and the family business, Arnaud’s summer looks set to be a peaceful one. Peaceful until he runs into Madeleine, as beautiful as she is brusque.

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Features

• Birth of a role for Binoche
  Why Assayas took up the challenge.
• Girl power hits the streets of Paris
  Céline Sciamma on sex, desire and friendship.
• Changing reality, part 1
  Atom Egoyan on The Captive, fairy tales and the desolation of Niagara.
• Against the odds
  Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne on Two Days, One Night and working with Marion Cotillard.
• Something blue, part 1
  Mathieu Amalric on shoes, bees and The Blue Room.
• Loach decides to battle on…
  Retirement thoughts were premature.
• Loren: La grande bellezza
  The golden days of an Italian icon.
• Taking the tinsel off Hollywood
  Cronenberg takes a satirical bite of celebrity culture.
• A Slice of True Grit
  Tommy Lee Jones on the roots of America.
• Egoyan on the sombre side
  Director finds inspiration close to home.
• Portrait of the artist
  Timothy Spall on playing Turner.
• Why Nicole would always choose love
  Cannes opening star on her highs and lows.

News

• Winter Sleep wins Cannes Palme d'Or
  Acting honours for Moore and Spall
• The critics make their choices
  Cannes welcomes more award winners.
• Cannes Critics' Week accolades
  Reality is a common theme.
• Cannes: Ferrara to be sued
  Lawyers instructed to seek damages.
• The monster at large
  Depardieu lets it all hang out.
• Campion lambasts sexism
  Females to the fore on Cannes jury.
• Cannes to close in a blaze of gunfire
  Sergio Leone classic to end Festival.
• Ferrara brings debauchery to the Croisette
  Special Cannes slot for Depardieu and Bisset.
• Sophia takes centre stage as a Cannes Classic
  A rich programme of restorations in prospect.
• Deneuve lands Cannes' late slot
  Six additions to line-up.
• Fall from Grace?
  Row simmers on over Cannes opening film.
• Boorman returns to the Cannes fray
  Directors' Fortnight sets out its stall.
• Cannes: Critics make their choice
  Seven titles in contest.
• Cannes: the waiting game is over
  Fremaux launches the official selection.
• Mastroianni stars on Cannes poster
  Organisers reveal the face of 2014
• Cannes gets in the party mood
  Opening title chosen for Un Certain Regard.
• Cannes countdown
  Who will be among the chosen for this year’s Riviera jamboree?
• Elections oust the Palme D'Or
  Prize ceremony moves forward a day.
• Jane Campion to head Cannes jury
  Piano director will succeed Steven Spielberg.