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Justine Triet's Palme d'Or winner Anatomy of a Fall is a fascinating examination of a novelist (Sandra Hüller) accused of murdering her husband in the French Alps
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Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson and Phoebe Waller-Bridge bless the Cannes Film Festival this year. Here's a list of our favourites from the selection
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The world's most important film festival – boasting big names like Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks – has drawn to a close. Here are the biggest moments from Cannes 2022
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From Baz Luhrmann's glamorous biopic Elvis to David Cronenberg's latest provocative piece Crimes of the Future, here are the most exciting titles at this year's Cannes Film Festival
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From the new Sparks musical Annette with Marion Cotillard to Wes Anderson's latest film The French Dispatch starring Frances McDormand, here are the Cannes movies we're excited for
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Cannes darling Xavier Dolan returns with his maturest film to date: Matthias et Maxime celebrates friendship and repressed affection beautifully
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Céline Sciamma's period romance premiered in competition in Cannes – its exquisite beauty impressing audiences without fail
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Jessica Hausner's pristine dystopia asks how engineered emotion can be trusted, in a cerebral Cannes Competition entry with a playful edge
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It was an astonishing night, with big successes for Parasite and trophies for Brad Pitt, Laura Dern, Joaquin Phoenix and more. Read on for the full list of winners
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South Korean auteur Bong Joon-ho has made motion picture history with 2020 Oscar-winner Parasite – shocking, thrilling, entertaining in equal measure
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Terrence Malick returns with A Hidden Life, an achingly beautiful blend of true events and meditative romance
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Winner of the Grand Prix in Cannes, Mati Diop's debut feature Atlantics is a beguiling and mysterious love story
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Cannes veteran Ken Loach returns with Sorry We Missed You, a heartbreaking damnation of working-class gig economy
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In Once Upon A Time ... in Hollywood, Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie return. Tarantino's ninth feature rocked Cannes this year
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Vanessa Paradis stars in Yann Gonzalez's hyper-stylised erotic slasher Knife+Heart – after premiering in Cannes and lighting up Flare
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Jim Jarmusch (Paterson) returns with his ambling zom-com The Dead Don't Die. Adam Driver and Bill Murray lead a star-studded cast
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At the most prestigious film festival in the world, the biggest directors and most exciting films of the year are all premiering. Here's what to look out for
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Buckle up for Rocketman: Elton John's fantasy comes to life in Cannes with glorious musical pizzazz. Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell and Richard Madden star
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Ira Sachs returns to Cannes with Frankie, an ensemble family drama led by Isabelle Huppert and Brendan Gleeson in the Portugese sunshine
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The 23-year-old Belgian singer wowed at Cannes Film Festival with a Chanel Haute Couture dress and a haunting performance. Here's everything you need to know about Angèle
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Ever since the Director's Fortnight at the 2018 Festival de Cannes, people have been talking about Romain Gavras' The World Is Yours, a zippy, stylish gangster comedy
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After winning Best Screenplay in Cannes, Happy As Lazzaro, Alice Rohrwacher's pastoral Italian tale, is set to wow the world
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Nordic folklore is combined with grisly crimes in a Swedish genre-bender Border, based on the writings of John Ajvide Lindqvist
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From influential director Asghar Farhadi and starring Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, Everybody Knows is a fine-tuned family drama that sometimes falls flat
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Based on one of the most ridiculous stories never told, Spike Lee's Oscar-winning Blackkklansman shows he hasn’t lost his touch but that may just be out of it
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From BlackKklansman to Green Book – we round up what will win, and what should win at the 2019 Oscars
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Based on a short story by Haruki Murakami, Burning wooed critics at Cannes last year and offers a mysterious thriller for the ages
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Innocence and experience jostle in Shoplifters, a beautiful, alchemical family drama from Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda who snapped up the Palme d'Or at Cannes
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A directorial debut from actor Paul Dano and starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan, Wildlife is a stripped-back drama about being reckless in your quietest moments
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A revenge story of cosmic proportions from visionary director Panos Cosmatos featuring a career-defining performance from Nicolas Cage, Mandy has us holding on to our seat
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Gaspar Noé returns with Climax, another piece of provocation, blending sex, drugs and faux-philosophical musings
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A star-studded cast featuring Marion Cotillard and Charlotte Gainsborough can’t save the latest from Arnaud Desplechin, Ismael's Ghosts from partially sinking under the weight of symbolism-induced hollowness