Mia Hansen-Løve had long wanted to make an autofiction about married auteurs, but as she tells IndieWire, it didn’t quite click until Ingmar Bergman died.
In a three-way contest, the French committee picked Julia Ducournau’s polarizing Cannes Palme d’Or winner to contend for Best International Feature Film.
Verhoeven’s latest competed for the Palme d’Or at Cannes.
“We don’t always know when we’re being lied to, but we do know when we are being told the truth,” said Sean Penn. “Truth is cinema to me.”
As the festival season attempts to return to normalcy, eager buyers are expected to make some big purchases. Here’s every one so far.
Times change, and Stone’s complex historic and global point of view is far more layered and nuanced than current American partisanship will accept.
Specialty film executives reveal what they learned during the pandemic, the role of Cannes, and the changing distribution game.
Critics agree: The Cannes jury got it right again.
Cannes may have brought some exciting new movies into the conversation, but these highlights still need homes.
The filmmaker explains how a near-death experience inspired a very different kind of movie.
This year’s festival would’ve been a momentous occasion even if the movies failed to deliver, but they most certainly did.
In the end, many Cannes winners don’t register stateside, unless they break through at the box office, as “Parasite” did.
