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Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Adds Bruno Dumont’s ‘Red Rocks’ to Lineup

Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Adds Bruno Dumont’s ‘Red Rocks’ to Lineup

Published by Daniella Wilson

Cannes Film Festival regular Bruno Dumont (Slack Bay, Flanders) is returning to the Croisette this year with his latest, Red Rocks, screening in the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar. Directors’ Fortnight added the feature, described as a Romeo and Juliet-style romantic drama set on the French Riviera, as a late edition on Thursday. Dumont will also give a masterclass in the section, where he premiered his feature debut, The Life of Jesus in 1997. Over the years, the French director has screened several works in the section, which runs parallel to Cannes’ main festival. He screened his four-part television miniseries Li’l Quinquin in Directors’ Fortnight in 2014 and the musical drama Jeannette, the Childhood of Joan of Arc there in 2017. Dumont has also graced the main Competition multiple times, winning the Grand Jury Prize for both his 2006 psychological war drama Flanders and his 1999 crime mystery Humanity. His recent Palme d’Or contenders include the comedies Slack Bay (2016) and France (2021). Red Rocks joins a high-profile, and unusually star-studded, lineup for the 58th edition of Directors’ Fortnight. Highlights this …

Julianne Moore to Receive Kering’s Women in Motion Award in Cannes

Julianne Moore to Receive Kering’s Women in Motion Award in Cannes

Published by Daniella Wilson

Kering’s Women in Motion Awards gala is coming together. The starry gathering, which takes place during the Cannes Film Festival as an official event with attendance from festival leaders, jury members and others, is set for May 17. It will honor Oscar-winning actress Julianne Moore with a Women in Motion trophy, while Italian auteur Margherita Spampinato will receive an emerging talent award. The Women in Motion Awards is a ceremony that launched in 2015. Each year, Kering singles out “female artists whose careers and commitment have advanced the role of women both in cinema and in society.” Recipients over the years have included Nicole Kidman, Donna Langley, Jane Fonda, Patty Jenkins, Geena Davis, Susan Sarandon, Viola Davis, Michelle Yeoh and Salma Hayek Pinault. Kering’s Women In Motion activities in Cannes also include live events like talks, podcast recordings and more. “Julianne Moore fully embodies the spirit of Women in Motion. Through the consistency of her artistic choices, the depth and complexity she brings to her performances, and her longstanding dedication to advancing meaningful representation both …

Why the Cannes Film Festival Is the Perfect Setting for ‘The White Lotus’ Season 4

Why the Cannes Film Festival Is the Perfect Setting for ‘The White Lotus’ Season 4

Published by Jenni Sidey

In my experience, the Cannes Film Festival is a place of jarring contradictions. In the same humid evening, you can ascend the ginormous red carpet of the Palais des Festivals into the premiere of a devastating drama about wealth inequality, tearfully applaud for 15 minutes in your strictly-enforced tux, and later find yourself at a bafflingly expensive afterparty where the tables are stacked with 67 shades of macaroons, Veuve flowing on an infinite tap. The beleaguered local waiting staff look like they resent the very fiber of your being, and if you’ve even a glimmer of self-awareness, it’s hard not to agree with them. Film journalists and student enthusiasts who have maxed out their credit cards to stay in ludicrously overpriced AirBnBs, crammed seven-a-room like corpses in a morgue, rub shoulders with ultra-wealthy oligarchs whose dick-measuring mega yachts loom larger than a row of IMAX screens. It’s intoxicating. It’s fun. You’ll never feel more broke. There aren’t many places that stand as such a profound symbol of the chasm between rich and poor as the …

‘White Lotus’ Season 4 Will Use Cannes Film Festival as Backdrop

‘White Lotus’ Season 4 Will Use Cannes Film Festival as Backdrop

Published by Daniella Wilson

Production on season four of The White Lotus has started in France, and HBO has released a tantalizing detail about the show. As has been the case in the previous three seasons, the Mike White-created series will follow guests and staff at the luxury hotel chain where people keep getting murdered over the course of a week. That week, HBO says, will be set during the Cannes Film Festival. Whether the show uses this year’s actual festival, which runs from May 12-23, as a backdrop remains to be seen; HBO declined comment on whether the show would film at the festival. Also of note: The season will feature two White Lotus hotels, the first time White and Co. have had more than one property as a focus. The Airelles Château de la Messardière in Saint-Tropez will be the White Lotus du Cap, and the historic Hotel Martinez on the Croisette will stand in as the White Lotus Cannes. The season will film primarily in Cannes, Saint-Tropez and Monaco. Some filming will also take place in …

ACID Lineup of Bold Films Has Two From Iran-Born Directors

ACID Lineup of Bold Films Has Two From Iran-Born Directors

Published by Daniella Wilson

ACID, the Cannes Film Festival sidebar run by France’s association of film directors whose goal is promoting the theatrical distribution of independent films, unveiled its 2026 lineup on Tuesday, with general delegate Pauline Ginot promising a selection of nine “adventurous” and “bold” films from emerging voices from such countries as Iran, Switzerland and, of course, France. Launched in 1992, ACID has made a reputation for itself for discovering up-and-coming directing talents. Among others, it brought to Cannes the first features of such auteurs as Anatomy of a Fall director Justine Triet, who premiered Age of Panic there, Radu Jude, who unveiled The Happiest Girl in the World in the program in 2009, and Kaouther Ben Hania (The Voice of Hind Rajab), who screened her feature debut, The Blade of Tunis, at ACID in 2014. ACID has previously also championed early works by the likes of Guy Maddin, including My Winnipeg. More than 600 films were submitted this year for one of the coveted nine spots in the ACID program, Ginot tells THR. “We watched all of …

Animated ‘In Waves’ to Open Sidebar

Animated ‘In Waves’ to Open Sidebar

Published by Daniella Wilson

In Waves, Phuong Mai Nguyen’s animated adaptation of AJ Dungo’s cult graphic novel, will open the 65th edition of Cannes Critics’ Week, the sidebar that runs alongside the main Cannes festival from May 13 to 21. It was one of the 11 features making up this year’s selection, announced on Monday. (Full Critics’ Week lineup below). Will Sharpe and Stephanie Hsu head up the voice cast for the English-language version of In Waves. Critics’ Week plans to show both that and the French version, which features voice work from Lyna Khoudri, Rio Vega, Paul Kirscher and Biran Ba. Inspired by Dungo’s own, real-life love story, In Waves is set in California and follows a skateboarder and a surfer, friends from school who later become lovers and find their relationship tested by illness. The feature, produced by French group Silex Films together with Charades and Anonymous Content, is the first animated film to open Critics’ Week. Nguyen was Oscar-shortlisted for her short My Home. In Waves is one of seven features picked for Cannes Critics’ Week competition, which also includes Dua, the …

Cannes Festival promises escapism in Hollywood-lite edition

Cannes Festival promises escapism in Hollywood-lite edition

Published by Sam Flores

The Cannes Film Festival unveiled its roster of films for this year’s edition on Thursday packed with historical dramas, “gentleness” and even football, with the absence of major Hollywood studios set to dial down the American razzle-dazzle of previous editions. Festival director Thierry Fremaux unveiled 21 films in competition for the main Palme d’Or prize, featuring former winners, newcomers and strong showings from Spain and Japan. Film Critic Ben Croll tells us more. Source link

The Cannes 2026 Lineup Is Jam-Packed With International Auteurs

The Cannes 2026 Lineup Is Jam-Packed With International Auteurs

Published by Sam Flores

Notre Salut, Emmanuel Marre Fjord, Cristian Mungiu The Birthday Party, Léa Mysius Moulin, László Nemes Fatherland, Pawel Pawlikowski The Man I Love, Ira Sachs El Ser Querido (The Beloved), Rodrigo Sorogoyen Minotaur, Andrey Zvyagintsev Un Certain Regard Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Jane Schoenbrun Elephants in the Fog, Abinash Bikram Shah Iron Boy, Louis Clichy Ben’imana, Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo Congo Boy, Rafiki Fariala Club Kid, Jordan Firstman Uļa, Viesturs Kairišs La Más Dulce (Strawberries), Laïla Marrakchi El Deshielo (The Meltdown), Manuela Martelli Siempre Soy Tu Animal Materno (Forever Your Maternal Animal), Valentina Maurel Yesterday the Eye Didn’t Sleep, Rakan Mayasi I’ll Be Gone in June, Katharina Rivilis Words of Love, Rudi Rosenberg Everytime, Sandra Wollner All the Lovers in the Night, Sode Yukiko Out of Competition La Bataille de Gaulle: L’âge de Fer, Antonin Baudry Karma, Guillaume Canet Diamond, Andy Garcia L’abandon, Vincent Garenq L’objet Du Délit, Agnès Jaoui Her Private Hell, Nicolas Winding Refn Midnight Screenings Full Phil, Quentin Dupieux Sanguine, Marion Le Corroller Roma Elastica, Bertrand Mandico Jim Queen, Marco Nguyen & …

Unifrance Executive Files Rape Complaint Against Patrick Bruel

Unifrance Executive Files Rape Complaint Against Patrick Bruel

Published by Daniella Wilson

Daniela Elstner, managing director of French cinema and TV export agency Unifrance, has filed a police complaint against French actor and singer and actor Patrick Bruel, accusing him of attempted rape and sexual assault dating back to an alleged incident from 1997. Elstner has spoken publicly about her experience in the past, including with The Hollywood Reporter, but declined to name Bruel, saying only that the alleged attacker was a high-profile figure in the film industry. She filed the complaint on March 12. On Wednesday, French investigative news website Mediapart named Elstner as one of eight women who have accused Bruel of sexual violence in incidents from between 1992 and 2019. Mediapart reported that a second woman lodged a complaint for rape against Bruel, for an incident alleged to have taken place at the Dinard British Film Festival in 2012, when Bruel was president of the jury. Elstner’s complaint claims Bruel assaulted her during Unifrance’s French Film Festival in Acapulco, Mexico, in 1997. Elstner was then 26 and working as an assistant at Unifrance. Bruel was …

Barbra Streisand to Receive Honorary Palme d’Or in Cannes

Barbra Streisand to Receive Honorary Palme d’Or in Cannes

Published by Daniella Wilson

Legendary singer/actress/director Barbra Streisand will be feted by the Cannes Film Festival this year with a honorary Palme d’Or for her life’s work. Cannes unveiled the award on Wednesday, calling Streisand “an iconic artist and embodiment of the American dream in all its original splendor.” The EGOT winner has never had a film in Cannes before. She will make her Croisette debut on stage this year, receiving the honorary Palme at the Cannes awards ceremony on May 23. “It is with a sense of pride and deep humility, that I’m honored to join the company of past Honorary Palme d’Or recipients whose work has long inspired me,” Streisand said in a statement. “In these challenging times, movies have the ability to open our hearts and minds to stories that reflect our shared humanity, and to perspectives that remind us of both our fragility and our resilience. Cinema transcends borders and politics, and affirms the power of imagination to shape a more compassionate world.” Among her many achievements across music, cinema and stage, Streisand is a …