Film

Florence Platarets’s new documentary on the late auteur inadvertently asks whether Cannes Film Festival has lost its taste for radical politics

Every character in Lee Sung Jin’s TV series orbits around an unhappy nexus of high art, capital and social clout

From Jonathan Glazer's triumphant Cannes debut to the first Sudanese production to be honoured by the festival, here are six films to keep an eye out for this year

The Oscar-winning director trains his unwavering gaze at the site of a tower block fire that claimed the lives of 72 people

In the film adaptation of the 2021 book-length manifesto by academic Andreas Malm, the stylized aesthetic and surface-level backstory of the characters fall flat 

For the release of ’Showing Up’, Carlos Valladares speaks to the director and actor about how their new film reframes the idea of working artists

In Damien Chazelle’s newest film, the altar of Hollywood crumbles under the weight of its own spectacle

Released in the UK this month, Caitlin Quinlan explores what Todd Field's TÁR (2022) reveals about the abuses of power and the possibilities of accountability 

The former starlet’s return to the screen is just a reminder of how far she has fallen from favour

Ahead of the UK premiere of ‘Triangle of Sadness’, the Swedish director talks to Rory O’Connor about his latest jab at the mega rich

The auteur inverts Hollywood genre tropes in an alien invasion romp that questions what we see and believe

The novelist watches Joanna Hogg’s two recent films and muses on how they convey the lessons learned in creative practices

The director’s return to the body horror genre exposes crimes of the heart

Featuring Emma Stone, Damien Bonnard and a well-trained trip of goats, the Greek director’s silent short frees him from the pressures of the box office

Rory O’Connor watches the filmmaker’s distinctive oeuvre which brings low-budget austerity to the film festival circuit

Caitlin Quinlan speaks to director Joachim Trier about coming of age and how to capture the spirit of a city

In Does Your House Have Lions (2021), the filmmaking duo explore the meaning of friendship, community and freedom against a backdrop of inequality and state violence

Artists Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny on their multimedia project, which investigates the parallels between North American Indigenous reservations and Palestinian refugee camps

In Parallel Mothers (2021), the director delves further into the difficulties of Spain's political past

25 years after its premiere, Wong’s film about being unable to escape the present strikes a new relevance