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 […]

Memories of cinema past and present come rushing at you like 2001’s Star Gate sequence in Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell, his first return to cinema since 2016’s Neon Demon and his first project since dying for 20 minutes from a serious heart condition three years ago. Somehow, it was excluded from the Cannes […]

Spain’s Rodrigo Sorogoyen has proven himself a master of the psychological thriller, whether the serial-killer kind (May God Save Us, 2016) the political kind (The Realm, 2018) or the true-crime kind (The Beasts, 2023). The Beloved, his first film in Competition at Cannes, is an incredible achievement that builds on all those films and leaves […]

Who do the dead belong to? This strange but thoughtful question is incredibly on brand for Japan’s Hirokazu Koreeda, and he explores it in one of his purest, most dream-like films to date. Built around three extraordinary performances, including one from first-timer Kuwaki Rumi, it’s a light yet somehow very profound study of grief that […]

Picture yourself in a boat on the Riviera… Most rock superstars have been seduced by the glamor of the Cannes Film Festival at some point in their career. The Rolling Stones went twice, first with Gimme Shelter in 1971 and then with Stones in Exile in 2010. The Who closed the festival in 1975 with […]

Blood is only the beginning in Marion Le Corroller’s Species, which follows firmly in the trail pioneered by Julia DuCorneau but brings its own thoughts to the woman-in-a-man’s-world body-horror genre. Built around a fantastic scream-queen performance from Mara Taquin, who literally comes out of her shell in ways that will not be revealed here, Le […]