Cannes 2025: Day 11: Friday 23 May: The best of Cannes so far: Jafar Panahi
★★★★☆
Cannes 2025: Day 11: Friday 23 May: The Best of Cannes so far: Jafar Panahi
film review
Cannes 2025: Day 9: Wednesday 21 May: Semaine de la Critique awards
★★★★☆
Cannes 2025: Day 9: Wednesday 21 May: Semaine de la Critique awards
Cannes 2025: Day 8: Tuesday 20 May
★★★★☆
Cannes 2025: Day 9: Tuesday 20 May
Cannes 2025: Day 7: Monday 19 May
★★★★☆
Cannes 2025: Day 7: 19 May
Cannes 2025: Day 6: Sunday 18 May: Halfway through the festival
★★★★☆
Cannes Day 6: 18 May
Cannes 2025: Day 5: Saturday 17 May
★★★★☆
Cannes Day 5
Cannes 2025: Day 4: Friday 16 May
★★★★☆
Cannes 2025: Day 4
Cannes: Two Prosecutors (2025): Day 3: Thursday 15 May
★★★★☆
Cannes: Two Prosecutors (2025): Day 3
Cannes Film Festival 2025: Opening Film Tuesday 13 May: Partir Un Jour (2025) (Leave One Day)
★★★★☆
Cannes 2025: Opening Film 13 May 2025,
Holy Cow (2024)
★★★★☆
Holy Cow, co-written and directed by Louise Courvoisier, is a lovely, involving coming-of-age story set in rural France.
Four Mothers (2024)
★★★☆☆
Loosely based on the gentle, charming Italian 2008 film Mid-August Lunch, a national holiday when cities are deserted, Four Mothers, directed by Darren Thornton, opens out into a broader Irish take on getting old and being gay.
Sebastian (2024)
★★★★☆
A young writer dives into the world of sex work for content for his debut novel: soon the lines between research and reality become blurred in writer-director Mikko Mäkelä’s Sebastian.
BFI Flare: The Pleasure is Mine (2024) (El Placer es Mío)
★★★☆☆
Young bisexual Antonio drifts through life lying, stealing, and using people while feeling incapable of love in writer-director Sacha Amaral’s Buenos Aires-set character study The Pleasure Is Mine.
BFI Flare: Night Stage (2025) (Ato Noturno)
★★★★☆
The affair between a young actor and a politician comes under increasing threat as their public profiles grow and the stakes rise in erotic thriller Night Stage from writer/directors Filipe Matzembacher and Marcio Reolon.