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Cannes Film Festival

Movie reviews, red carpet fashion, and interviews with the actors, directors and producers premiering at Cannes—one of the world’s most prestigious film festivals, held annually on the Côte d’Azur. Read more about Film Festivals.

A woman wearing a dark outfit sits at a table in a dimly lit room, with a bald man in a suit in the background, captured in black and white.

In Paweł Pawlikowski’s ‘Fatherland,’ Thomas Mann’s Divided Germany Is a Study of Artistic Compromise and Family Rupture

Set in 1949 and starring Sandra Hüller as Thomas Mann's daughter, the Best Director winner at Cannes reckons with the cost of holding onto one's convictions in a world choosing sides.
By Siddhant Adlakha
Palme D'Or Winners Photocall - The 79th Annual Cannes Film Festival

Director Cristian Mungiu Says ‘Fjord’ Is About the Limits of Freedom, Not Clashing Cultures

In a rare feat, the Romanian filmmaker has now won Cannes' top prize twice.
By Stephen Garrett
A close-up film still shows a group of young men in military-style uniforms crowded tightly together, shouting and laughing around a central figure.

Lukas Dhont’s ‘Coward’ Renders Queer Desire Against the Machinery of War

The film, for all its faults, subverts hyper-masculine war tropes to focus on intimacy, queer desire and art as a tool of survival.
By Siddhant Adlakha
A young man with curly hair wearing a green military-style shirt sits in a tiled room, playing a brass trumpet with his eyes closed, focused on the instrument.

Screening at Cannes: Los Javis’ ‘La Bola Negra’

By Siddhant Adlakha
A close-up of two people sitting on a green sofa, a woman in a red top on the left and another woman in a light green sweater on the right, both looking directly at the camera with serious expressions, with blurred background furniture and a red flower vase.

Screening at Cannes: Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘Bitter Christmas’

By Stephen Garrett
A family poses in front of a Nordic landscape

Screening at Cannes: Cristian Mungiu’s ‘Fjord’

By Siddhant Adlakha
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The Best Fashion From the 2026 Cannes Film Festival Red Carpet

By Morgan Halberg
A woman, lit with dramatic dark pink lighting, stands in front of a blue background, seen from the shoulders up

Nicolas Winding Refn On the Genesis of ‘Her Private Hell’

By Stephen Garrett

Letters to the Editor: Remembering Rex Reed

By Merin Curotto
A nun in a white habit kneels beneath a crucifix inside a stark tiled chapel surrounded by rows of other nuns.

Screening at Cannes: Ken Russell’s ‘The Devils’

By Stephen Garrett
A man in a cream-colored jacket and large pink-tinted sunglasses stands close to the camera with a white duck perched on his shoulder, its beak turned toward the viewer.

The Power of ‘Yes!’ and the Limits of Dissent at Cannes

By Siddhant Adlakha

Screening at Cannes: Lynne Ramsay’s ‘Die, My Love’

By Siddhant Adlakha

Screening at Cannes: Directing Debuts from Kristen Stewart, Scarlett Johansson and Harris Dickinson

By Stephen Garrett
"The Mastermind" Red Carpet - The 78th Annual Cannes Film Festival

All the Best Red Carpet Fashion From the 2025 Cannes Film Festival

By Morgan Halberg

Screening at Cannes: Denzel Washington and A$AP Rocky In Spike Lee’s ‘Highest 2 Lowest’

By Stephen Garrett

Screening at Cannes: Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson In ‘Die My Love’

By Stephen Garrett

Everything About Rex Reed Begins With Movies

By Merin Curotto
Elon Musk speaks onstage during the Cannes Lions International Festival.

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By Tina Charisma

All the Best Red Carpet Fashion from the 2024 Cannes Film Festival

By Morgan Halberg

Screening At Cannes: ‘The Apprentice’

By Stephen Garrett
Arrivals - amfAR Gala Cannes 2024 - 30th Edition Presented by Chopard And Red Sea International Film Festival

The Best Fashion from the 2024 AmfAR Gala Cannes

By Morgan Halberg
Celebrity Sightings: Day 8 - The 77th Annual Cannes Film Festival

The Best Off-Duty Fashion at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival

By Morgan Halberg

Screening At Cannes: ‘Horizon,’ ‘Substance,’ and ‘Emilia Pérez’

By Stephen Garrett

Screening At Cannes: Yorgos Lanthimos’ ‘Kinds of Kindness’ and Paul Schrader’s ‘Oh, Canada’

By Stephen Garrett
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