Cannes Film Festival

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  Blow-Up

  Review preview for Blow-Up

  For better or worse, Antonioni’s got his master stylist hat on here, even if it sometimes obscures his vision.

  A fashion photographer believes he may have caught something sinister on camera.
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  Radiance

  Review preview for Radiance

  It’s a love story of sorts, but one which demands a lot more of its protagonists – and its audience – than most of its ilk.

  A writer of film versions for the visually impaired falls for a photographer who is losing his eyesight, together they learn to see the radiant world.
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  Tehran Taboo

  Review preview for Tehran Taboo

  The society it depicts is one in which ordinary people – and especially women – are crushed beneath the joint burdens of a medieval moral code, and an unfeeling bureaucratic enforcement process.

  An insight into the society of underground Tehran.
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  Filmworker

  Review preview for Filmworker

  Few voices are missing from this incredibly thorough piece of work.

  Documentary about the working relationship between actor Leon Vitali and Stanley Kubrick.
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  The Workshop

  Review preview for The Workshop

  There's a potency to this film, largely thanks to a carefully judged performance by Marina Foïs as novelist and tutor Olivia, and a charismatic one by Matthieu Lucci as her most difficult student, Antoine.

  An exploration of group dynamics in a young people’s writing workshop.
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  Gabriel And The Mountain

  Review preview for Gabriel And The Mountain

  Barbosa's film painstakingly recreates that journey and, in so doing, also gives viewers an oblique insight into the director's feelings about the loss of his friend.

  Before entering a prestigious American university, Gabriel Buchmann decides to travel the world for one year... finally reaching Kenya.
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  The Desert Bride

  Review preview for The Desert Bride

  Capturing this moment, this opening up, writer/director team Cecilia Atán and Valeria Pivato demonstrate that there's room on the big screen for small things.

  When a live-in maid's path crosses that of a travelling salesman, her life will change forever.
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  L'Amant Double

  Review preview for L'Amant Double

  If there is rather more surface than substance and the ending is signposted, it is a surface full of intricacy and a signpost of admirable elegance.

  A fragile young woman falls for her psychotherapist... and his twin.
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  Sicilian Ghost Story

  Review preview for Sicilian Ghost Story

  It avoids every cliche laid down in the history of search-and-rescue movies

  When a boy disappears, a young girl goes looking for him in the dark world that has swallowed him.
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  How To Talk To Girls At Parties

  Review preview for How To Talk To Girls At Parties

  The energy is electric

  Three teenage punks gatecrash a party on the Queen's jubilee night in London and have an unexpected experience that feels out of this world

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Features

• Saddling back up
  Chloé Zhao and Brady Jandreau on autism, training horses and The Rider
• Deepening the mystery
  Mathieu Amalric and Jeanne Balibar on Barbara and Balibar's Merveilles À Montfermeil
• Filming sensations
  Mathieu Amalric on Pierre Léon, Jeanne Balibar and the sounds and colours of Barbara
• In Focus
  Leon Vitali on Stanley Kubrick and Filmworker
• Actors’s pride for 120 Beats Per Minute
  Award-winner Biscayart on sexuality, activism and the pink condom
• Jeanne’s love affair with Barbara
  César best actress Balibar on becoming a musical legend in Barbara
• Blond ambition
  Atsuko Hirayanagi on Shinobu Terajima, Josh Hartnett, and Will Ferrell and Adam McKay's role in Oh Lucy!
• Campillo’s beat goes on
  Director on AIDS drama 120 BPM, writing from the heart and collaboration
• Varda hits the road again
  New Wave icon on Faces Places, honours, outsiders and Demy
• The apple of his eye
  Arnaud Desplechin on Lacan, Rilke, Hitchcock, Philip Roth, and Ismael’s Ghosts: Director’s Cut
• Horse sense
  Chloé Zhao and Brady Jandreau on The Rider
• 'I just don’t know about fame. I have never figured it out'
  Good Time star Robert Pattinson on being a lone wolf - and stardom as a side dish
• Kruger returns to her mother tongue
  Star on terror attacks, women’s roles, Tarantino and Romy Schneider.
• Pattinson has a Good Time changing image
  'Invisible' Twilight star goes for grunge in Cannes.
• Sofia gets all her own way
  The Beguiled director on Farrell, Kidman and Dunst.
• Elton inspires three young filmmakers
  Video shorts evoke singer's classic songs.
• 'Film is the best way to deliver a powerful message'
  Gore on his fight to save planet.
• Clint’s instincts always come up tops
  Director on political correctness, mentors and a new project.
• Reluctant Dustin resists the passing years
  Hoffman, Stiller and Sandler at heart of Baumbach’s family saga.
• Östlund’s Monkey business
  The Square director goes animal crackers.
• Redgrave confronts refugee crisis
  Veteran actress makes directing debut in Cannes.
• Wright bangs the drum for women
  Cannes star Robin talks equality, Wonder Woman and Trump.
• Long and short of Ismael's Ghosts
  Desplechin on choices, Cotillard, Amalric and Gainsbourg.

News

• Kidman hailed the Queen of Cannes
  Palme d’Or for Swedish satire The Square.
• Iran tops Cannes Un Certain Regard
  FIPRESCI jury also unveils Cannes winners.
• The Rider gallops to a Cannes award
  Directors’ Fortnight announces winners.
• Bruno wins Palm Dog paws down
  Jury announces canine winners in Cannes.
• Accolades for Cannes new talent
  Critics’ Week announces prize-winners.
• Cannes shows solidarity for Manchester
  Festival and mayor give messages of support
• Netflix screening hit by fault
  Swinton and Bong keep their cool.
• Almodóvar roots for the big screen
  Cannes jury president weighs in to Netflix row.
• Resolution for Cannes row over Netflix
  Festival to introduce new rules to preserve cinema.
• Play it again Cannes!
  Classics to the fore for Festival’s 70th.
• Polanski back on Cannes red carpet
  Director among late signings for festival.
• Smith, Chastain and Sorrentino join Cannes jury
  Almodóvar finalises his colleagues for duty.
• Critics offer top picks for Cannes
  La Semaine de la Critique reveals line-up.
• Binoche and Depardieu open Cannes Quinzaine
  Directors’ Fortnight unveiled.
• Scottish short film selected for Cannes
  "Obviously it's amazing," says director Rory Alexander Stewart.
• Cannes announces 70th edition line-up
  Kidman, Farrell, Pattinson and Moore for red carpet.
• Cannes countdown hots up
  Besson, Coppola, Haneke waiting in the wings.
• Cannes jury duty for Sandrine
  Award for best first film in the festival.
• Cannes Critics’ Week sealed with a kiss
  Sidebar section unveils poster image
• Cannes unveils poster for 70th edition
  Claudia Cardinale takes twirl for platinum anniversary.
• Bellucci in Cannes spotlight
  Actress to open and close 70th edition.
• Almodóvar named Cannes jury president
  Spaniard “overwhelmed” by invitation for 70th edition.