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2281 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 04/07/2025.

Like Someone in Love: The Grandfather Experience

After Italy, Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami celebrates Japan in his latest film, screened today in the official competition in Cannes.  

21/05/2012 | Cannes 2012 | Competition

A witch hunt according to Thomas Vinterberg

Vinterberg is back in the competition with his best film since Festen, a psychological drama about social fractures that never completely heal.  

20/05/2012 | Cannes 2012 | Competition

Love: at the heart of life and death

Michael Haneke has made a refined, deep, and modest masterly work about old age, feelings, and the end of life.  

20/05/2012 | Cannes 2012 | Competition

Mungiu's prayer carries Beyond the Hills

After his Palme d'Or in 2007, Romanian film director Cristian Mungiu has made a demanding film that is a powerful cry against the harmfulness of ignorance.  

19/05/2012 | Cannes 2012 | Competition

Matteo Garrone's Reality shock

After the success won with Gomorra, winner of the Jury's Grand Prix in Cannes 2008, Matteo Garrone is back in Competition with a popular tale  

18/05/2012 | Cannes 2012 | Competition/Italy

Who's white and who's black in Paradise: Love?

Austrian film director Ulrich Seidl returns to the Cannes official competition with a story about sex tourism, five years after his radical film Import/Export  

18/05/2012 | Cannes 2012 | Competition

Marion Cotillard : "I was a little bit scared"

Marion Cotillard : "I was a little bit scared"

The French star talks about her performance as a woman who has lost both her legs in Jacques Audiard's Rust and Bone  

17/05/2012 | Cannes 2012 | Competition

Rust & Bone: blood, sweat, and tears

A new masterly work by Jacques Audiard who adds poignant melodrama to his realist and violent universe of social film noir  

17/05/2012 | Cannes 2012 | Competition

If Tahrir were told After the Battle

Egyptian filmmaker Yousry Nasrallah is back in Cannes with a fiction - the first real fiction since the beginning of the Arab Spring - about his country's revolution  

17/05/2012 | Cannes 2012 | Competition

Audiard, Resnais, and Carax: a virtuoso trio

France looks set to do well this year in Cannes, with three contenders for the Palme d’Or who are already famous for their very personal and contrasting styles.  

20/04/2012 | Cannes 2012 | Competition/France

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