At the age of 17, Milo Machado-Graner is already familiar to audiences in Cannes. First, he appeared as the sight-impaired son in Justine Triet’s 2023 arthouse smash Anatomy of a Fall, then he came back the following year with Filmlovers!, Arnaud Desplechin’s poetic ode to cinema. This year, you’ll find him closing Critics’ Week with […]

U.S. theatrical distributor Neon continued to make history at Cannes tonight with its seventh straight Palme d’Or win for Christian Mungiu’s Fjord. Fjord marks Mungiu’s English-language debut. In it, the co-stars play a mixed Romanian and Norwegian couple who move to the fjord village where the wife was born with their children. Their planned new life […]

Cannes newbie Lola Petticrew will get their moment in the sun when British filmmaker Clio Barnard’s powerfully resonant I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning has its premiere at the 58th Directors’ Fortnight. Adapted by Enda Walsh from Keiran Goddard’s stunning 2024 novel about social and class inequality, the film charts the lives of five 30-year-old childhood friends. “They’re […]

What’s historically been great about the Cannes jury press conference at the end of the festival is that it provides a window into what this conclave was thinking and the choices made for award selections. However, few reporters got the chance to ask hard hitting questions, and the jury was steered by the conference moderator […]

About 11 days ago the 79th Cannes Film Festival opened with a lighthearted French comedy, The Electric Kiss. That indicated to me they were getting the fun stuff out of the way in order to go really dark for the next 10 days. That has been pretty much the case, so it’s not surprising that […]

An open letter, initiated by members of the French cinema world to protest tycoon Vincent Bolloré’s growing control of France’s media and entertainment sectors, has started to gather international support. Organisers of the letter entitled “Time To Switch-Off Bolloré” announced a raft of international signatories on Thursday evening, including Javier Bardem, Mark Ruffalo, Walter Salles, […]

On today’s Crew Call podcast straight from the Cannes Film Festival, we chat with director James Gray, who returned to the Croisette with his sixth feature, the competition title Paper Tiger. Also on today’s episodes are his producers, Oscar winner Anthony Katagas and Oscar nominee Rodrigo Teixeira, who talk about mounting the filmmaker’s penchant for […]

Andy Garcia’s passion project Diamond sparked a nine-minute ovation in Cannes on Tuesday evening as the star set down at the festival in the company of co-stars Vicky Krieps and Rosemarie DeWitt. Billed as a love letter to L.A. and a homage to the film noir of the past, the quirky whodunnit is written and […]

EXCLUSIVE: Spanish distributor Elástica Films has set an October 2026 release for Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo’s Cannes smash La Bola Negra and unveiled a first clip. News of the release date comes just hours after the film’s triumphant Cannes competition premiere, where the feature received a 22-minute ovation in the presence of the directors and […]

Before taking on a performing artist who is battling AIDs in 1980s New York in Ira Sachs’ latest Cannes feature The Man I Love, star Rami Malek said, “I can’t do this, there’s too many similarities.” Similarities to his Oscar winning Best Actor role of Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody who also suffered from AIDs. […]

Tilda Swinton warned that cinema needs to avoid “formulaic” work and privilege “messy, adventurous experiences” to survive in the age of AI in an onstage conversation at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday. “As long as what we’re producing is not formulaic and in some way tiring for the audience, AI doesn’t have a chance, […]

Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord has won the Palme d’Or at the 79th Cannes Film Festival. Previously, Russian director Andreï Zviaguintsev’s Minotaur scooped the Grand Prize at the 79th Cannes Film Festival. Directorial duo Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi and Paweł Pawlikowski jointly won the Best Director Prize for La Bola Negra and Fatherland respectively. German director […]