Cannes film festival

Cannes Diary: First three-hour instalment of Costner’s old-school western is confounding; Kinds of Kindness may be Yorgos Lanthimos’s weakest film

Donald Clarke: At Cannes, be prepared for often humdrum occasions to turn into the most surreal and uncomfortable events

Cannes diary 2024: Meryl Streep ‘didn’t quite nail’ the Australian accent and Megalopolis staggers its way to nowhere worth going

Film showcases director Andrea Arnold’s gift for artful shepherding of apparent chaos, while allowing new and surprising elements

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Cannes Diary: Juliette Binoche was choked up, Meryl Steep was classy and Greta Gerwig didn’t hold back

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Film director Marco Bellocchio on Edgardo Mortara, a ‘baptised’ Jewish boy taken from his family, and scandal that weakened power of pope

The octogenarian auteur’s fourth feature is a languorous consideration of time, memory and cinema

Three Element Pictures productions will feature in official selection, with Yorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness competing for the Palme d’Or

Whether in Nobody Knows, Shoplifters or Like Father, Like Son, the Japanese auteur can dramatise children’s inner lives like no other film-maker

He missed out on a Poor Things prediction this year – how successful will he be for next year?

Donald Clarke: Her Eras Tour became the highest-grossing concert film ever. She was Time magazine’s person of the year. But another woman had an even better year

Eye surgery curtailed the German director’s appearances recently but he’s back on track with two films, Anselm and Perfect Days

It is often observed that no one knows what a marriage is like except the two people in it, but in Justine Triet’s film that number may be too high

The director of the remarkable Anatomy of a Fall likes to work on the boundary where fact and fiction blur into one another

‘Nobody really knows how life is here in Romania, and especially cultural life. There are still people believing that we speak Russian or that it’s very cold’

The director on his new film, The Old Oak, set in a ravaged mining community in northeast England, and why he may wrap up the film-making at 87

Japan’s master of outrageous tragedy on incorporating sign language into new film Love Life, complicated humans and his goal of depicting life as it is

Hollywood stars may be missing but competition will be fierce for the Golden Lion