Star-studded cast of Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton and Chloë Sevigny light up red carpet

Time will tell about the quality of the films – but the programme does not disappoint

Big-name auteurs in Croisette line-up, but only four films by women in competition

Two decades after the Phantom Menace teaser, they are our age’s internet art form

Lukas Dhont’s Girl, inspired by Nora Monsecour, has a cisgender lead. Does it matter?

Director Wim Wenders says pope answered every question ‘spontaneously and in-depth’

Sara Driver’s film focuses on the underground scene that shaped Jean-Michel Basquiat

Sara Driver has made a fascinating chronicle of the late American artist’s formative years

The ‘Betty Blue’ actor on her love affair with Rupert Everett and why Jesus is sexy

Everyone loves Jim Jarmusch’s ‘80s playlist but our correspondent remains unexcited by the PR for ‘Climax’

The distinguished film-maker continues her experiments in the unpredictable with her latest work – just don’t go asking what it’s like being a female director

Let’s never speak again of her turns as a tattooed English punk and a bearded hobo

The ‘Star Wars’ actor on leaving the marines, filming nude and getting to know his dark side

Katherine Bigelow’s furious new film, ‘Detroit’, tackles historic racism and strikes some shocking notes. But the ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ director has been taking fire for even taking on the project

Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismäki’s film is filled with curious oddballs, but there are also many ethical connundrums to contend with

Culture review 2016: The surge in Irish cinema continued with cracking diverse domestic films, and getting to see the Oscars in the flesh was a treat

A blind homeowner vs home invaders in a superbly made thriller that turns the genre on its head

Solondz is back with another grimly original funny drama. ‘Lassie Come Home’ it’s not

Unabashedly sentimental Japanese film exhorts everybody to follow their dreams

Aaron Brookner’s film Uncle Howard is about his late film-maker uncle – but it is also about Aids, a disappeared New York and the dangerous Burroughs