Cannes 2015: ‘Irrational Man’ review
★★☆☆☆ Woody Allen returns to his beloved Cannes with his story of crime and punishment in a sleepy up-state town, Irrational Man (2015), which...
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22 May 2023
Cannes 2023: Firebrand review
★★☆☆☆ “An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king,” Percy Shelley once wrote in his sonnet England in 1819. He was firing his barbs at King George III but the words could just as well be used for any number of English monarchs including Henry VIII.
21 May 2023
Cannes 2023: Homecoming review
★★★☆☆ Catherine Corsini arrives in Cannes with Homecoming, an adeptly told family drama which boasts some stand out performances. Fifteen years after a tragic incident, Kheìdidja (Aissatou Diallo Sagna), a single mother, returns to Corsica with her two daughters to look after the children of a wealthy family.
20 May 2023
Cannes 2023: About Dry Grasses review
★★★★★ Turkish master director Nuri Bilge Ceylan returns to the Cannes Croisette with About Dry Grasses, a wonderful wintry meditation on male fragility and the way we often make our own hells and then deceive ourselves that we’re trapped.
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Cannes 2015: ‘Tale of Tales’ review
★★★★☆ Once upon a time, fairytales were folk tales. Then they became children’s stories, were made into Disney cartoons and now star Angelina Jolie...
Cannes 2015: ‘Our Little Sister’ review
★★★☆☆ Japanese director and Cannes favourite Hirokazu Kore-eda enters the race for the Palme d’Or with Our Little Sister (Umimachi Diary, 2015), adapted from...
Cannes 2015: ‘An’ review
★★★☆☆ “Everything in the world has a story to tell,” explains a character in Japanese director Naomi Kawase’s new film An (Sweet Red Bean...
Cannes 2015: Our picks of the Competition programme
It’s that time of year again when the enormous poster outside the grand Palais is unveiled and, for this year at least, the beautiful...
Cannes 2014: ‘Winter Sleep’ wins Palme d’Or
Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan this evening won Cannes’ top prize, the coveted Palme d’Or, for his latest film, Winter Sleep. A worthy award winner...
Cannes 2014: ‘Winter Sleep’ review
★★★★☆ Having carried home the Grand Jury Prize for Best Film back in 2011 with the exceptional Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, celebrated...
Cannes 2014: ‘White God’ review
★★☆☆☆ The recently crowned winner of the Un Certain Regard prize at this year’s Cannes is Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó’s sixth feature, White God...