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Cannes Film Festival

17 May – 28 May 2022

The 75th edition of the festival will run from May 17 to 28. It will open with Final Cut, directed by Michel Hazanavicius and feature tentpole films including Top Gun: Maverick.

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  • Tchaikovsky's Wife
    Review preview for Tchaikovsky's Wife

    The music is an easy choice, but Serebrennikov has found its counterpart in image and in theme.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Drama following the turbulent relationship between the composer and his wife.
  • A Male
    Review preview for A Male

    Director Fabian Hernández, making his feature début, demonstrates a fondness for close-ups and keeps the narrative close to Carlos as well.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Carlos lives in a youth shelter in Bogota. Its Christmas and Carlos longs to spend the day with his mother and sister, who are lost in the spiral of urban violence. As he leaves the shelter, Carlos is confronted with the rigor of the streets in his neighborhood, where the law of the strongest, the alpha 'macho', rules. As he seeks for a family reunion, Carlos must show he can be one of them.
  • Mother And Son
    Review preview for Mother And Son

    Filled with strong sentiment but without sentimentality.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    In the late 1980s, Rose moves from the Ivory Coast to the Paris suburbs with her two young sons, Ernest and Jean. Spanning 20 years from their arrival in France to the present day, the film is the chronicle of the construction and deconstruction of a family.
  • Falcon Lake
    Review preview for Falcon Lake

    Le Bon’s world is so intimately constructed that it’s easy to be immersed in the present moment, as the characters are, and lose sight of the rest.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A young teenager falls in love with an older girl while on holiday.
  • The Eight Mountains
    Review preview for The Eight Mountains

    In their quietly devastating manner, Groeningen and Vandermeersch examine the fluid nature of our confusion and confidence over our place in the world.

    Jeremy Mathews · 5 out of 5
    The Eight Mountains is the story of a friendship. Of children becoming men who try to erase the footprints of their fathers, but who, through the twists and turns they take, always end up returning home.
  • Pamfir
    Review preview for Pamfir

    There’s an increasing sense of the unnatural impinging on the natural.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Pamfir wants to be a decent family man but challenged by the circumstances he is forced to give up honest breadwinning to help his family.
  • The Dam
    Review preview for The Dam

    Built on strong imagery rather than substantive narrative.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Sudan, near the Merowe dam. Maher works in a traditional brickyard fed by the waters of the Nile. Every evening, he secretly builds a mysterious construction made of mud.
  • Harka
    Review preview for Harka

    A cri de cœur on behalf of all those from who hope has been stolen

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Ali earns a living illegally selling gasoline on the street. He doesn’t have any contact with his family, but when he receives news that his father has died, he is forced to become responsible for his two younger sisters.
  • The Five Devils
    Review preview for The Five Devils

    While it's a road well-travelled, here it's a road travelled well.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    Eight-year-old Vicky possesses a special power: a hyperacute sense of smell. She spends her days exploring this gift, and lives happily with her mother Joanne, a swimming teacher whom she adores exclusively - to the despair of her firefighter father. When her mysterious aunt Julia suddenly reappears in their lives, secrets from their past resurface both violently and magically.
  • Plan 75
    Review preview for Plan 75

    The film is full of sharp little observations, made in passing, which tell us about this society and the experience of people living it.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    In a near future Japan, over-75s are offered a payment to encourage them to accept an assisted death.

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