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Everyone who has ever experienced serious grief knows the strange, unsettling things it can do to time: stretching it or compressing it by turns, consigning some passages of it to…
May 24, 2026
· 1 min read
AI (artificial intelligence)
Darren Aronofsky among proponents of using technology, while Guillermo del Toro says he would ‘rather die’Under a white marquee on Cannes’ Croisette beach, with the Mediterranean glistening behind him and…
May 24, 2026
· 1 min read
News
Cannes’ jury president, Park Chan-wook — long a Cannes favorite, never a Palme winner — managed to roast himself and plug his latest movie at the closing press conference of…
May 24, 2026
· 1 min read
Cannes film festival
Film about a couple on trial for child abuse isn’t a patch on the director’s previous Palme winner, while other disappointing films seemed to grab the jury’s attentionThese were the…
May 24, 2026
· 1 min read
Highlight
In his second Palme d'Or-winning film 'Fjord', Cristian Mungiu explores the contradictions of Scandinavia’s supposed tolerance through the story of a devoutly Christian couple who move to a remote village…
May 24, 2026
· 4 min read
Cannes film festival
English-language debut by Romanian director who triumphed in 2007 with 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days takes top prizeNineteen years after his searing abortion drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks…
May 23, 2026
· 1 min read
Awards
Cristian Mungiu’s complex moral drama “Fjord,” starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve, has won the Palme d’Or for best film at the Cannes Film Festival, making the Romanian writer-director the…
May 23, 2026
· 1 min read
France
The conservative tycoon’s grip on media and cinema is unhealthy. An EU fund could protect democracy in perpetuityThe shadow of Joseph McCarthy’s “red scare” loomed over the storied steps of…
May 23, 2026
· 1 min read
Cannes film festival
‘Europe must never be subjected to Trump’ says Spanish film-maker at a Cannes press conference for his new film, Bitter ChristmasPedro Almodóvar has argued that film-makers have a “moral duty”…
May 20, 2026
· 1 min read
Cannes film festival
Cannes film festival: Travolta directs and narrates this 60-minute adaptation of his own short story about a boy who dreams of being a pilotJohn Travolta’s directorial debut turns out to…
May 16, 2026
· 1 min read
Film
The 79th edition of the influential festival boasts an auteur-heavy lineup – with one, very big, country conspicuous by its almost total absenceGillian Anderson and Cara Delevingne to hit Cannes…
April 9, 2026
· 2 min read