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Big names, hip casts, and hot topics outside main Cannes line-up
Big-name directors, hotshot up-and-comers, a hipster duo in period garb, and movies about terrorism, cross-dressers, and the seedy underworld of the Indian film industry....here's a peek at the...
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Festival director and feminists lock horns as Cannes prepares for take-off
Critics are drooling over screening schedules, star gazers have camped out across from the red carpet, French feminists are fighting with festival organiser Thierry Fremaux...and things haven't even...
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Michael Haneke gets sincere, Xavier Dolan clears the air
81-year-old Jean-Louis Trintignant is shattering in Michael Haneke's strong competition entry "Amour". Meanwhile, on the other end of the age spectrum, 23-year-old "Laurence Anyways" director Xavier...
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At Cannes, cinema without borders and an ‘Indian Brigitte Bardot’
With an Iranian film set in Japan, a Korean film starring French actress Isabelle Huppert, and the "Indian Brigitte Bardot" wheeling and dealing on the Croisette, Cannes this year suggest the...
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Brad Pitt, chocolate fountains, and lesbian vampire warriors
In twelve hours on the Croisette, a party with dancing film critics and a chocolate fountain, a blunt crime thriller starring Brad Pitt, and a look at some of the more absurd films being shopped...
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Amid Palme d'Or gossip, 'Holy Motors' steals 'On the Road' thunder
Speculation about what film could take home the top Palme d'Or prize raged at Cannes Wednesday, with Leos Carax's crazy, inspired "Holy Motors" seen as a frontrunner. Walter Salles's lovely "On the...
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Zac Efron and Nicole Kidman light up torrid, unfairly bashed ‘Paperboy’
It was greeted by boos and jeers. But Zac Efron and Nicole Kidman bring heat and humor to Lee Daniels' Southern thriller "The Paperboy", a pulpy, outrageously entertaining treat with a bit more on its...
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Heartthrob Robert Pattinson fails to deliver in Cronenberg's 'Cosmopolis'
"Twilight" heartthrob Robert Pattinson fails to deliver in David Cronenberg's sleekly beautiful, but dramatically lifeless competition entry "Cosmopolis". Elsewhere on the Croisette, three furry,...
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Palme of reason or Palme of passion?
One day before the big prizes are handed out, Cannes has a serious case of Palme fever. Will the jury go for the Palme of reason ("Amour"), the Palme of passion ("Holy Motors"), or something...
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Palme d'Or goes to Michael Haneke's 'Amour', a portrait of love and death
The coveted Palme d’Or went to Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke’s “Amour”, a sober, gorgeously directed portrait of an elderly couple facing terrifying questions of life and death. Some of the jury's...
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US, Palestinian thrillers about violence and vengeance electrify Cannes
Outside the main competition, two thrillers struck a nerve at Cannes the last two days: American Jeremy Saulnier's "Blue Ruin", about a drifter out for blood, and Palestinian Hany Abu-Assad's "Omar",...
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Michael Douglas, Matt Damon light up Cannes in gay romance
Valéria Bruni Tedeschi's "Un chateau en Italie" ("A Castle in Italy") was all but forgotten when Michael Douglas and Matt Damon stepped in the spotlight as lovers in Steven Soderbergh's entertaining...
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Ryan Gosling a no-show as Cannes jury member opens up
Ryan Gosling was a no-show for the competition entry he headlines, Nicolas Winding Refn's "Only God Forgives", and Chadian crime film "Grigris" was underwhelming. Meanwhile, juror Lynne Ramsay told us...
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Abdellatif Kechiche’s lesbian romance is a masterpiece
Cannes' competition soared Thursday with French-Tunisian director Abdellatif Kechiche's "La Vie d'Adèle" ("Blue is the Warmest Color"), a brilliantly acted, intensely erotic three-hour drama about a...
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‘The Immigrant’ divides as Kechiche, Ozon court controversy
As "Cannes fatigue" set in, James Gray's long-awaited "The Immigrant", a solid, but uninspired period drama starring Marion Cotillard, screened for the press. Meanwhile, French directors François Ozon...
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Vampires, Polanski, and Palme d’Or predictions
The last two competition films, Jim Jarmusch's "Only Lovers Left Behind" and Roman Polanski's "Venus in Fur", were minor pleasures. Meanwhile, Kechiche's "Blue is the Warmest Color" and Farhadi's "The...
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Kechiche’s powerful same-sex love story wins Palme d’Or
French-Tunisian director Abdellatif Kechiche's heartbreaking, erotic lesbian romance "Blue is the Warmest Color" ("La vie d'Adèle") won the Palme d'Or at Cannes Sunday night. The Coens' "Inside Llewyn...
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La caricature iranienne avec Bozorgmehr Hosseinpour
Au programme : rencontre avec l'artiste iranien Bozorgmehr Hosseinpour, polémique autour de Tintin au Canada, Gaston Lagaffe au cinéma, le dessin au secours de l'orthographe et la BD s'arrache chez...
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