Emilia Pérez review: Bold, brassy, groundbreaking entertainment
Chutzpah is in plentiful supply in Jaques Audiard’s extraordinary telenovela-shaded narco-trans musical starring Zoë Saldaña and Karla Sofía Gascón
Jacques Audiard
Karla Sofía Gascón, star of the Oscar-tipped Emilia Pérez: ‘I put my entire life and soul into creating this character’
If the Spanish star gets an Academy Award nomination for her role in Jacques Audiard’s film, she’ll be the first openly trans performer to do so
‘Cinema is not dead.’ Cannes film festival makes a promising return
After cancelling in 2020, Cannes returns this summer with an extensive programme
‘I had a lot of offers to play a terrorist or the French boyfriend’
Tahar Rahim talks about his latest role as a detainee in Guantánamo Bay in Kevin Macdonald’s The Mauritanian
Cannes 2019: Who will win the Palme d’Or?
Cannes diary: Tarantino gets an early lead in the dog days of this year’s festival
Cannes 2019: Irish film starring Jesse Eisenberg gets rapturous reception
Vivarium, an Irish science-fiction horror, has world premiere as part of International Critics Week at the film festival
Coming soon... 50 films to look out for in 2019
From Ad Adstra to Frozen 2 and Martin Scorsese's latest, there's plenty to look forward to in the new year
Irish films in the mix at Venice and Toronto festivals
The Favourite from Yorgos Lanthimos will compete for the Golden Lion at Venice and John Butler’s Papi Chulo will premiere at Toronto
Cannes 2018: line-up features Jean-Luc Godard, Spike Lee and fresh faces
Programme flush with exciting talent but only three of 18 films competing for Palme d’Or have female directors
Joaquin Phoenix: The man who wasn’t really here? He’s still here
He plays Jesus Christ in ‘Mary Magdalene’, in an echo of his own childhood as part of a cult religion. But the eccentric actor says his unconventional family kept him grounded
Which films will be up for next year’s Oscars? These ones will
Donald Clarke predicts 2019’s Best Picture nominees. He was nearly half right this year
Irish co-production ‘The Lobster’ wins Cannes Jury Prize
Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan’ wins Palme d’Or to gasps in the auditorium
Cannes 2015: who’ll bag the Palme d’Or?
It looks like a three-horse race led by Todd Haynes’s ‘Carol’, starring Cate Blanchett, and László Nemes’s ‘Son of Saul’. Could Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s stunningly beautiful ‘The Assassin’ sneak through to win?
Romain Duris: Monsieur Popular
For nearly two decades, French actor Romain Duris has been charming audiences – and critics – in a wide variety of films, ranging from New French Extremism to ditzy romance. And he look set to do it again in new ‘retro’ romcom Populaire
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