Of all the festivals to present this feature at, Cannes is by far the boldest choice. Set against the backdrop of a lavish yacht harbour, the annual event on the French Riviera is equally about fashion as it is about films, where black-market ticket prices (for those who are not lucky enough to be connected)

Around 20% of murder cases in France go unsolved, the opening text of this film informs. The horrific torching of a young woman on her way home from a friend’s is one of them. It is Yohan’s (Bastien Bouillon) first operation as investigator-in-charge, and the fact that the culprit was never caught gnaws at him.

Based on the short story The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye by AS Byatt, George Miller’s latest feature devotes itself to mythology and it’s dwindling importance in our current world, where science has replaced the need for magic. English narratologist Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) arrives in Istanbul, where she will speak at an international conference

2022 is the year Soylent Green predicted that the Earth’s overpopulation would necessitate a form of recycling program for human bodies and government assisted suicide would be encouraged. So it is a particularly apt time for Chie Hayakawa’s debut feature, Plan 75, to premiere at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section. In order to

Eo is a donkey in a circus in Poland, tenderly cared for by Kasandra, who performs with him, and callously abused by other crew members. When a new law prohibits the use of animals in circus shows, the non-human performers are repossessed. So begins Eo’s journey of changing hands and being passed around like an

Antonina Miliukova first lays eyes on Pyotr Ilyich Tchaïkovsky at a mutual friend’s gathering and is instantly smitten with the way the famous composer carries himself. She asks to be introduced. She would like a place in his conservatory, but as he dismisses her with a callous, “What for? You’re better off getting married,” she

Ali sleeps in an abandoned construction site, and barely gets by on selling contraband petrol. Each day the police come by, well aware of the black market operations, and collect some of his profits. He dreams of leaving Tunisia, but when he learns of his father’s passing, Ali makes himself responsible for the care of

In 2020 Jesse Eisenberg wrote an Audible Original radio drama, which he also co-narrated, alongside Kaitlyn Dever and Finn Wolfhard. The latter returned to reprise his role as Ziggy Katz in the film adaptation, which premiered earlier this year at Sundance and marks Eisenberg’s directing debut. Ziggy is an awkward high school student by day,

After last year’s opening ceremony with Annette’s singing puppet, the choice to kick off Cannes 2022 with a representative of the zombie genre feels odd – but perhaps not entirely out of the blue. Once Final Cut starts, however, viewers indeed furrow their brows in confusion at what unfolds before them. Has an actual trash