Park Chan-wook is the 2026 Cannes Jury President

Park Chan-wook is the 2026 Cannes Jury President

South Korean director Park Chan-wook will be the jury president for the 79th Cannes International Film Festival, Cannes announced Thursday. The acclaimed filmmaker behind Oldboy, The Handmaiden and No Other Choice will head up the international jury that will select the winner of this year’s Palme d’Or. The 2026 Cannes Film Festival runs May 12…

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‘The Love That Remains’ Review: Hlynur Pálmason Follows ‘Godland’ With a Snapshot of Marital Dissolution More Elemental Than Affecting

‘The Love That Remains’ Review: Hlynur Pálmason Follows ‘Godland’ With a Snapshot of Marital Dissolution More Elemental Than Affecting

Over three features set in his native Iceland, Hlynur Pálmason has established a distinctive feel for the power of landscapes and elemental forces to shape human relationships, positioning them in stark relief. A feeling as intimate as isolation can take on epic dimensions under the writer-director’s gaze, notably in his 2022 head-turner Godland, an austerely…

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‘Romería’ Review: Carla Simón Dives Deep Into Painful Family History in an Act of Reclamation That’s Equal Parts Shimmering and Meandering

‘Romería’ Review: Carla Simón Dives Deep Into Painful Family History in an Act of Reclamation That’s Equal Parts Shimmering and Meandering

Three years after taking top honors in Berlin with her elegiac tribute to the generations of peach farmers in her family, Alcarràs, Carla Simón returns to territory more directly connected to her own past, a companion piece to her debut, Summer 1993. That 2018 film explored a transitional period in the life of a six-year-old…

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‘Magellan’ Review: Gael Garcia Bernal Plays the Famous Explorer in Lav Diaz’s Exquisitely Shot Challenge of an Arthouse Epic

‘Magellan’ Review: Gael Garcia Bernal Plays the Famous Explorer in Lav Diaz’s Exquisitely Shot Challenge of an Arthouse Epic

If “Gael Garcia Bernal as Magellan” sounds to you like a pretty cool Netflix series, you have never seen a film by Filipino auteur and slow-cinema master Lav Diaz. Known on the international festival circuit for his epically minimalist features with bladder-busting running times, his movies are challenging, high-art dramas made for a very select…

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