Palme d’Or winner Cristian Mungiu‘s latest film Fjord, starring Sebastian Stan (The Apprentice) and Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Value), had its world premiere in Cannes on Monday night and received a 12-minute ovation. The runners-up ovation-wise at this point in the festival are James Gray’s Paper Tiger, which last night got a 10-minute salute, and Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s […]

Filmmaker Na Hong-Jin’s in Competition sci-fi thriller Hope received a seven-minute standing ovation in Cannes this evening. Na praised the audience for staying with his two hour and forty minute epic alien thriller. During the premiere screening, at least three incredible action set-pieces drew exuberant applause. Had it ended 20 minutes earlier, the applause would’ve been […]

In what looks to be the longest – and certainly one of the most enthusiastic – standing ovations of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, Jeanne Herry’s Garance received a wild 12-minutes of applause after the film ended. Co-stars Adèle Exarchopoulos, Sara Giraudeau and Mathilde Roehrich could be seen exchanging hugs and the plaudits continued. Competition […]

“MeToo got killed very quickly,” Cate Blanchett reportedly said during one of the festival’s Rendez-vous conversations today in Cannes. As a result, the Oscar-winner maintained, gender imbalance is still wildly present in the industry. “I’m still on film sets and I do the headcount every day, and it is still…there’s 10 women and there’s 75 men, […]

At a Cannes where some have grumbled about a paucity of studio movies (and thus stars), the absence of Scarlett Johansson at last night’s premiere of Paper Tiger was notable. During the movie’s rousing 10-minute standing ovation director James Gray tried to make a call to the actress, according to reports and social media videos. […]

“There is no B plan, no alternative, and this entails consequences, which I’m fully ready to shoulder.” That’s Javier Bardem, in Cannes discussing his new film The Beloved, which was shot in the Western Sahara. Given the politics of that region and the controversy over Bardem’s recent statements about the conflict between Israel and the […]

El Ser Querido (The Beloved) starring Oscar winner Javier Bardem got a rousing ovation in at its Cannes premiere. Applause in the Grand Theatre Lumiere for the film went on for seven minutes. Bardem hugged his castmates and director after the screening. See the video below. El Ser Querido was directed by Rodrigo Sorogoyen from […]