Festivals

Cannes Dispatch: Gaspar Noé

By Eugene Hernandez

May 24, 2019

Flashing lights: the director on his latest mind-expanding project Lux Aeterna, which debuted at Cannes this week

Film of the Week: Oh Mercy!

By Jonathan Romney

May 24, 2019

Cops and robbers: with his latest, a film policier, Arnaud Desplechin explicitly comes to terms with the world, in a very personal way

Interview: Adèle Haenel

By Nicolas Rapold

May 24, 2019

Flaming creature: the star of three Cannes standouts, including Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Woman on Fire, on her ability to inhabit diverse characters

The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes 2019 Day 10

By Nicolas Rapold

May 24, 2019

Going up: a closer look at some of the best Middle Eastern and African films at the festival

Cannes Dispatch: Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

By Eugene Hernandez

May 22, 2019

Eternal return: the director and stars of the Cannes sensation share some thoughts on what some have dubbed “Tarantino’s Roma”

Interview: Mati Diop

By Eric Hynes

May 22, 2019

Crossing over: the director on her debut feature Atlantics, a love story haunted by the failures of the global economy

Interview: Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles

By Ela Bittencourt

May 21, 2019

Country life: The directors of Bacurau on how the film‘s setting in Brazil’s wild backcountry informed their blistering portrait of resistance

Cannes Dispatch: And Then We Danced

By Eugene Hernandez

May 20, 2019

Old country waltz: Levan Akin’s And Then We Danced is a quietly revolutionary movie set in the former Soviet republic of Georgia

The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes 2019 Day 4

By Nicolas Rapold

May 18, 2019

Stretching out: Kantemir Balagov’s Beanpole, Franco Lolli’s Litigante, Brazilian politics, and more on today’s festival rundown

Film of the Week: Bacurau

By Jonathan Romney

May 17, 2019

It takes a village: though ungainly and sometimes ugly, there‘s a lot to admire in Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles‘s Cannes entry