Cannes Film Festival

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  After Yang

  Review preview for After Yang

  Kogonada is the directorial equivalent of a careful tea maker himself, he knows how to infuse his films with complex ideas without getting preachy or overtechnical about it.

  In a near future, a family reckons with questions of love, connection, and loss after its A.I. helper unexpectedly breaks down.
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  Hold Me Tight

  Review preview for Hold Me Tight

  Hold Me Tight [has] the sensorial acuteness to abduct us straight to the place where, providentially or not, poignant life decisions are being forged and the creations of new realities begin when the world around seems to collapse.

  A woman leaves her family - or does she?
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  Hit The Road

  Review preview for Hit The Road

  Panahi and his actors shift through emotions so smoothly, you barely notice them until they have immersed you.

  Drama based around a road trip in a borrowed car.
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  Between Two Worlds

  Review preview for Between Two Worlds

  Binoche gives her all, stripping away any vestiges of actressy pretence to assimilate herself in the community while at the same time investing her performance with an authentic conviction.

  Marianne Winckler, a well-known author, goes to live in northern France to research for her new book on the subject of job insecurity. Without revealing her true identity, she gets hired as a cleaner, working with a group of other women.
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  The Innocents

  Review preview for The Innocents

  The subtlety Vogt employs as a director pays off in spades as he gets as much creepy mileage from the disturbance of soil and water as any amount of CGI could muster.

  During the bright Nordic summer, a group of children reveal their dark and mysterious powers when the adults aren't looking.
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  A Brighter Tomorrow

  Review preview for A Brighter Tomorrow

  While there's plenty to be said for a subtle approach, Qnia is too laidback for his own good.

  A thief tries to reconnect with his estranged girlfriend and child.
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  The Tale Of King Crab

  Review preview for The Tale Of King Crab

  The use of traditional folk song and the fact that the language shifts from Italian to Spanish also highlights the way that stories are passed from mouth to ear down the generations and across borders.

  Italy, today. Some elderly hunters reminisce about the tale of Luciano - a drunk who locks horns with the head of the region over right of passage and is later exiled.
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  Bloody Oranges

  Review preview for Bloody Oranges

  Bloody Oranges is condemned to straddle between two half-baked tones.

  A retired couple entering a dance contest, a corrupt politician, a girl eager to lose her virginity, and a young lawyer obsessed with social status - a seemingly benign look into these daily lives goes haywire in this shocking black comedy.
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  Cow

  Review preview for Cow

  Arnold’s camera observes the gait of the animals so that right from the start we understand how they are constrained by their distorted bodies.

  A close-up portrait of the daily lives of two cows.
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  Neptune Frost

  Review preview for Neptune Frost

  Set in a futuristic Rwanda, the themes are as old as the hills - with colonialism, identity and self-determination chief among them.

  The love story between an African intersex runaway and a coltan miner, and the virtual marvel born as a result of their union.

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Features

• A feeling of being there
  Vincent Maël Cardona in conversation with Ed Bahlman on the music in Magnetic Beats
• Future imperfect
  Kogonada and Justin H Min on construction of identity and catching up to grief in After Yang
• Binoche at the end of her tether
  Reality bites with the women workers on the frontline in Between Two Worlds
• Absolutely imperfect
  Arnaud Desplechin on Denis Podalydès and Emmanuelle Devos in Deception
• Baptism of fire with Audiard
  Paris, 13th District star Lucie Zhang on intimacy, acting techniques and Cannes high heels
• On the crest of a wave
  Martyn Robertson on Ride The Wave and surfing star Ben Larg
• Love and sex in lockdown
  Audiard gets under the covers with young singles in Paris, 13th District
• Ideas create the aesthetic
  Ed Lachman on Todd Haynes, Christine Vachon, and shooting interviews for The Velvet Underground
• A participant observer
  Ed Lachman on Songs For Drella, Lou Reed, John Cale, and The Velvet Underground
• 'I wanted to make something that was celebratory'
  Director Clio Barnard on Ali & Ava as she dials in to Cannes
• Breaking the ice with sex in Texas
  Red Rocket director realises dream of bringing his underdogs to Cannes
• Stone back on the barricades
  JFK director returns to Kennedy assassination in Cannes
• Andrea scores herd immunity in Cannes
  Director’s first documentary reveals a surprising scene-stealer called Luma
• Anderson’s stars make an entrance - by bus
  Swinton, Chalamet and co aboard for ovation at Cannes premiere
• 'I relied so much on Dylan’s face to tell the story'
  Flag Day director Sean Penn on Trump, parenting and working with his daughter
• 'I think the media gave up on me because I was boring'
  Stillwater star Matt Damon on staying out of spotlight
• 'I’m always amazed people are shocked by sex in movies'
  Benedetta director Paul Verhoeven on religion, nudity, and sexuality
• Team Tilda make a splash
  Mother and daughter reunion for a Cannes ovation
• Jodie’s turn to take the honours
  Ultimate Cannes accolade decades after Taxi Driver hit the Riviera
• Cotillard into the unknown with Carax
  Why Cannes opener's singing star was left running scared
• Cannes returns with spark and Spike
  Frémaux gambles on power of cinema to fight back from Covid
• Dressing up
  Joanna Hogg, Tilda Swinton and Honor Swinton Byrne on the costumes in The Souvenir

News

• Palme Dog Souvenir for Swinton
  Tilda picks up award for co-stars Rosy, Dora, and Snowbear
• And the Cannes winner is - Titane
  Jury President Spike Lee jumps the gun at unpredictable awards ceremony
• Fipresci announces prizes
  Critics select Playground, Drive My Car and Feathers
• Unclenching The Fists takes Un Certain Regard prize
  Women to the fore as jury announces Cannes accolades
• Covid hits Cannes star appearance
  Léa Seydoux isolating Paris while four films set to premiere
• Gaza Mon Amour takes top prize in the Critics Awards for Arab Films
  Romantic drama's Abbass named best actress
• Mask reprimand from Cannes supremo
  Complaints about stars flouting Covid regulations on red carpet
• Cannes changed Spike’s world
  Jury president reveals how Festival had a big impact on his career
• Testing time for all in Cannes
  Festival director justifies protocols versus glamour
• Japanese animation added to Cannes mix
  Belle is the culmination of a dream for director Mamoru Hosoda
• Thierry strikes gold in Cannes
  French actress to head Camera d’or jury
• Dujardin spy spoof to close Cannes
  Guy Bedos takes over reins of French franchise
• Cousins' passion continues in Cannes
  Premiere of final chapter exploring history of film
• Cannes adds more new titles
  Dario Argento makes acting début for Gaspar Noë
• Binoche to open Cannes Directors’ Fortnight
  New titles from Joanna Hogg and Clio Barnard in the line-up
• Cannes puts its sunny side up
  Penn, Audiard, Carax, Arnold, Verhoeven in line-up
• Cannes honours Jodie Foster
  Palme d’Or for one of Festival’s most ardent fans
• Verhoeven returns to Cannes
  Lesbian drama confirmed for festival’s Official Competition
• Carax musical to open Cannes
  Cotillard and Driver star in director’s first English foray
• Spike Lee back to head Cannes jury
  Director keeps faith with July edition of festival
• Czech festival switch to avoid Cannes
  Karlovy Vary moves to August in hope of vaccine safety reprieve
• Cannes moves to July
  New dates confirmed by organisers