Cannes Film Festival

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  Àma Gloria

  Review preview for Àma Gloria

  One of the most moving portraits of childhood seen recently on the screen.

  Six-year-old Cléo loves her nanny Gloria more than anything. When Gloria must return to Cape Verde to care for her own children, the two must make the most of their last summer together.
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  Goodbye Julia

  Review preview for Goodbye Julia

  Kordofani uses the greater intimacy offered by the camera to bring us close to the characters and reveal the complex layers of relationship developing between them.

  Wracked by guilt after covering up a murder, Mona — a northern Sudanese retired singer in a tense marriage — tries to make amends by taking in the deceased’s southern Sudanese widow, Julia, and her son, Daniel, into her home.
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  Close Your Eyes

  Review preview for Close Your Eyes

  A meditation on both memory and movies as well as ageing and a hankering for the past that is informed by the melancholic knowledge that nostalgia is inevitably rose-tinted.

  A TV show looking into the mysterious disappearance of an actor leads a director on a journey into his own past while making discoveries in the present.
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  In The Rearview

  Review preview for In The Rearview

  Beyond the stories that unfold within the vehicle, the tension of these journeys, often on dirt tracks in rural areas, is brought home.

  This fly-on-the-wall film captures Ukrainians as they are forced to leave their homes and drive into the unknown.
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  In Flames

  Review preview for In Flames

  Writer/director Zarrar Khan uses techniques borrowed from the horror genre to address the experience of living in an environment where one is seen as less than fully human, or even as prey.

  After the death of the family patriarch, a mother and daughter’s precarious existence is ripped apart by figures from their past – both real and imagined.
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  La Chimera

  Review preview for La Chimera

  Rohrwacher’s visually eclectic style is well suited to exploring the contrasts between present and past, natural and artificial, poverty and wealth.

  The story of a group of archaeologists and the black market in historical artefacts.
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  Cobweb

  Review preview for Cobweb

  Its pastiches of mid-20th Century Korean cinema are beautifully observed and a lot of fun.

  An experimental and genre-defying drama shot entirely on sound stages in support of a film-within-a-film narrative.
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  Monster

  Review preview for Monster

  A beautifully constructed piece of work in which every detail serves the whole, putting the tools of the epic at the disposal of a story which is intimate and delicately realised.

  A mother is shocked when she learns what a teacher has said to her son, but the truth is more complicated.
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  Four Daughters

  Review preview for Four Daughters

  The exposure of the film’s underlying structures...invites audiences to think about the processes of storytelling and interpretation, which is important, because it’s a story which took the missing women away.

  A creative documentary following ten years in the life of a fortysomething Tunisian mother, a cleaning lady from a poor environment, who sees her two teenage daughters become radicalised, run away and join the terrorist organisation Daesh in Libya.
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  The Mother Of All Lies

  Review preview for The Mother Of All Lies

  Everything about El Moudir’s film is unusual, from the structure to the mood.

  The filmmaker doesn’t have any pictures of herself as a child. This is the starting point of a documentary investigation that unfolds the secrets of a Casablanca family.

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Features

• Observing different ways of being
  Lisandro Alonso on John Ford, Alice Rohrwacher, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Eureka
• Body electric
  Daria Kashcheeva on developing and animating Electra
• 'I only wanted to make another film if it was really close to my heart'
  Àma Gloria director Marie Amachoukeli on her child's eye view of the world
• 'I wanted to write a story about absolute, unconditional love'
  Rosalie director Stéphanie Di Giusto on her bearded lady with a feminist message
• Streaming Spolight: Cannes Class of 23
  Hits from last year's festival you can now stream at home
• The look from above
  Jessica Hausner on Tanja Hausner, Martin Gschlacht, Sidse Babette Knudsen and Club Zero
• In search of liberty
  Rodrigo Moreno on freedom and character development in The Delinquents
• Wanting to make a difference
  Jessica Hausner in conversation on Club Zero, Elsa Zylberstein and Mathieu Demy as parents, and Pied Piper of Hamelin
• Bitter taste of an awards season row
  Director of The Taste of Things on Binoche, Magimel and an Oscar polemic
• Binoche’s recipe for a reunion
  The Taste Of Things brings France’s celebrity couple together again
• Now is now
  Wim Wenders on Yasujirō Ozu, Anselm Kiefer, Ingeborg Bachmann and Perfect Days
• Warwick Thornton's practical magic
  The New Boy director on working with children, animals and just one camera
• A difficult age
  Flóra Anna Buda on the challenges facing young adults, and making 27
• Evolution of The New Boy
  Warwick Thornton on gender flipping his film, religion and spirituality and the slippery significance of snakes
• Natural-born storytellers
  Kaouther Ben Hania on Tunisia’s Oscar shortlisted Four Daughters
• Always within her
  Elene Naveriani on the recognition of beauty and Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry
• Voice for children of Ukraine
  Pritan Ambroase on courage, missiles, and power of cinema
• From reality to animation
  Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach on making room for happy accidents in Chicken For Linda!
• Body and soul
  Eivind Landsvik on teenage life, empathy and making Tits
• Rights and wrongs
  Amjad Al Rasheed on patriarchal structures and female empowerment in Inshallah A Boy
• Caligula and the Emperor’s New Clothes
  'Irresistible mix of art and genitals' receives a new edit in Cannes
• Cannes winner on the home straight
  It's Raining In The House director stays close to her roots and family in 'protective' bubble
• Lily-Rose uncovers the dark side of celebrity
  New TV series gets the big screen treatment in Cannes
• Scorsese still up for a challenge
  Cannes praise for the master from De Niro and DiCaprio
• Exit Indiana as Ford harbours no regrets
  Cannes farewell marks 'a relic' of star's life passing by
• Director with crime on his mind
  Cédric Kahn on innocence and guilt, racism, and the power of words
• Streaming Spotlight: Cannes class of 22
  Films from last year's festival to stream at home
• Depp’s disappearing act in Cannes
  Star keeps the media waiting to hang on his every word
• Whirlwind world of Anaïs Demoustier
  Now actress takes on new role - as Camera d’Or president

News

• Femme power to the fore in Cannes Palme d’Or winner
  Justine Triet becomes only the third woman to receive the top prize
• Big pat for collie in Palm Dog awards
  'Highly competitive year' for canines in Cannes
• Loach last but not least in Cannes
  Director vies for Festival’s top prize for third time
• Top prize for UK's Manning Walker in Directors' Fortnight
  Jury bestows honours on four first films as Cannes starts to wind down
• Hanging Gardens wins top prize at Critics Awards for Arab Films
  The Blue Caftan and Harka also snag awards
• Tiger Stripes roars to success
  First of Cannes prizes announced in Critics’ Week section for first or second features
• Martin Amis dies at 73
  Author passes away dies on day film adaptation of his book premiered in Cannes
• Indiana bows out on a wave of emotion
  Harrison Ford gets all emotional at Cannes red carpet première plus an honorary Palme
• Depp feels the love in Cannes
  Controversial star can do no wrong with his French fans
• Ruben takes sideways swipe at the Oscars
  Cannes jury president prefers his Palme d’Ors any day
• Cannes supremo in the line of fire
  Frémaux on tickets, strikes, protests, Östlund and Haenel
• Critics Awards for Arab Films shortlist announced
  The Blue Caftan leads nominations
• Mirren, Ullmann and Jarmusch in Cannes Classics
  Godard tribute to include his final film as Thelma & Louise ride again
• Rasoulof banned from leaving Iran
  Director had hoped to serve on Cannes Un Certain Regard jury
• Honorary Palme for Michael Douglas
  Cannes Film Festival honours star and screens new documentary
• Sean Penn thriller joins the Cannes throng
  Pace hots up as 14 new titles added to official line-up
• Pixar animation to close Cannes Film Festival
  World premiere of Elemental inspired by director’s New York childhood
• Gondry back in Cannes fray after eight years
  Directors’ Fortnight unveils diverse line-up for 55th edition
• Cannes Critics’ Week reveals Competition titles
  Brazil, Malaysia, South Korea and Serbia among countries vying for glory
• Anderson, Loach and Wenders in Cannes line-up
  Festival promises '“a renewal' for 76th edition
• Almodóvar takes short cut Cannes
  Director, Hawke and Pascal to attend premiere of bitesize Western
• Extra glory for Yeoh in Cannes
  Women in Motion award for Best Actress Oscar winner
• Maïwenn’s costume epic to open Cannes Film Festival
  Depp returns to the scene as French royalty
• Ford’s date with destiny in Cannes
  Fifth in Indiana franchise to receive world premiere at festival
• Scorsese back in Cannes action
  Killers Of The Flower Moon cast DiCaprio, De Niro and Lily Gladstone to join festival
• Hotting up in Cannes
  Images revealed for Directors’ Fortnight and Critics’ Week