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Cannes Film Festival

13 May – 24 May 2025

This year's edition is running from May 13 to 24 and will open with Partir un jour, directed by Amélie Bonnin. Robert De Niro will receive an honorary Palme d'Or. It will feature Sylvain Chomet's A Magnificent Life, left, as a Special Screening.

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  • The Last One For The Road
    Review preview for The Last One For The Road

    Blends a shaggy dog story with a road trip.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Carlobianchi and Doriano, two broke fiftysomethings with a “never skip the last drink” philosophy, meet Giulio, a shy architecture student adrift in life. What starts as a chance encounter turns into a chaotic road trip through the Venetian plains.
  • A Pale View Of Hills
    Review preview for A Pale View Of Hills

    All of this fine work has potential, but too often the deeper ideas in the book are teased only to be abandoned.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    UK 1982. An young aspiring Japanese-British writer plans to write a book based on her mother Etsuko’s post-war experiences in Nagasaki. Haunted by the suicide of her older daughter, Etsuko begins to recount her memories from 1952 as a young mother-to-be. The writer begins to find troubling inconsistencies in the recollections.
  • Splitsville
    Review preview for Splitsville

    It’s hard to care about a film when those involved don’t appear to have done so themselves.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    Splitsville picks up with Ashley asking for a divorce, watching as the good-natured Carey runs to his friends, Julie and Paul, for support. He’s shocked to discover that the secret to their happiness is an open marriage; that is, until Carey crosses the line and throws all of their relationships into chaos.
  • Pillion
    Review preview for Pillion

    The constant contrast is the trick, which later extends to the emotional stakes.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    A man is taken on as a motorbike club's leader's submissive but begins to question that role.
  • Orwell: 2+2=5
    Review preview for Orwell: 2+2=5

    Offers food for thought in the realm of a slightly ungainly and sprawling all-you-can-eat buffet rather than a satisfying sit-down feast.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Delves deep into Orwell’s final months and visionary works to explore the roots of the vital and troubling concepts he revealed to the world in his dystopian masterpiece… Doublethink, Thoughtcrime, Newspeak, the omnipresent spectre of Big Brother… disturbing socio-political truths which resonate ever-more powerfully today.
  • Kokuho
    Review preview for Kokuho

    The performances are thrilling, emotionally direct and physically exacting, but they function as narrative instruments too.

    Edin Custo · 4.5 out of 5
    A boy born into a family of gangsgters is taken in by a kabuki theatre actor and finds a talent for the craft.
  • Arco
    Review preview for Arco

    It’s the sort of sweet-natured fable that makes adults nostalgic for childhood, but both the near and far futures it presents are, to children themselves, already likely to seem out of date.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    In 2075, a 10-year-old girl, Iris, witnesses a mysterious boy in a rainbow suit fall from the sky. It’s Arco. He comes from an idyllic far future where time travel is possible. Iris shelters him and will do whatever it takes to help him return to his time.
  • Homebound
    Review preview for Homebound

    Too much of the social grammar remains out of reach unless viewers are willing to research afterwards, and a drama this grounded in real structures shouldn’t require homework to fully land.

    Edin Custo · 3.5 out of 5
    Two childhood friends from a small North Indian village chase a police job that promises them the dignity they’ve long been denied. But as they inch closer to their dream, mounting desperation threatens the bond that holds them together.
  • The Plague
    Review preview for The Plague

    Borrowing tropes from horror, the film adds an uncanny undercurrent to its drama.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    At an all-boys water polo camp, a socially anxious 12-year-old is pulled into a cruel tradition targeting an outcast with an illness they call “The Plague.” But as the lines between game and reality blur, he fears the joke might be hiding something real.
  • Left-Handed Girl
    Review preview for Left-Handed Girl

    The title stops being metaphor and becomes a wound you can watch forming in real time.

    Edin Custo · 4 out of 5
    A single mother and her two daughters return to Taipei to open a night market stand. Three generations of family secrets begin to unravel after the youngest daughter who’s left-handed is told by her traditional grandfather to never use her "devil hand”.

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