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Legendary Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda has become a mainstay of the Cannes Film Festival. His newest film, Sheep in the Box, a sci-fi tale about a couple who adopt a humanoid robot after the death of their son, will be his eighth film to play in competition. The Toyko-born Kore-eda served on the jury, headed…
When Tao Okamoto first read the script for Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden, one scene told her above all others that this was hers for the taking. The sequence saw her character, a well-regarded playwright named Mari, explaining the systemic failures of modern capitalism. The monologue is long and complex, propelled by interconnecting arguments that,…
Marco Perego, a conceptual artist whose work has been displayed around the world, grew up on world cinema and tends to watch a movie every day. Yet the Italian native has operated mostly outside filmmaking circles — until now. Coming off of his feature directorial debut from 2023, The Absence of Eden — which starred his wife,…
The title of the new film from Austrian auteur Marie Kreutzer (Corsage) tips us off that we will have to get ready to face potential horrors and uncomfortable questions – Gentle Monster. World premiering in the competition program of the Cannes Film Festival on Friday night, the movie focuses on two women, portrayed by French…
The scene on stage at the Eurovision semifinals in Vienna this week has been the expected assemblage of cheesy love: Greece’s Akylas’ tiger-costumed ode to bling, Satoshi’s rappy anthem to Moldova (“aloha, adio, vida loca”), and, yes, Israel’s Noam Bettan’s French-Hebrew homage to his mythic Michelle. All three advanced to this weekend’s final. Behind the scenes,…
Barry Keoghan, now officially a Cannes regular, is weighing up the idea of one day taking to the Palais steps as a director. “I’d love to,” the 33-year-old tells The Hollywood Reporter. “Most of the time on set would be spent on me getting people to understand what I’m saying, though.” The dulcet tones of…
I’ve been back to Cannes something like 15 times. I was there with Valérie Donzelli’s film [Marguerite & Julien in 2015] in Competition and with the closing film [2012’s Thérèse] from Claude Miller. I’ve had films in Critics’ Week and Un Certain Regard. I was President of the Jury that awarded the Camera d’Or [to…
Carlton Cannes, a Regent Hotel58 Boulevard de la Croisette Carlton Cannes, courtesy of Regent Opened in 1913, the Carlton is arguably Cannes’ most famous film hotel thanks to its prominent role in To Catch a Thief starring Grace Kelly and Cary Grant. Its Belle Époque façade and Croisette location helped define the Riviera fantasy for…
When Japanese director Koji Fukada received the Tokyo International Film Festival’s Akira Kurosawa Award at the age of 42 in 2022, he bashfully suggested that the career achievement prize might be coming a little too soon. Past recipients had included Steven Spielberg, Yoji Yamada and Taiwan’s Hou Hsiao-hsien; and the other honoree that night, with…
Hollywood star Demi Moore and Korean auteur Park Chan-wook kicked off the 79th edition of the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday with a series of careful but unequivocal statements defending the role of politics in cinema. Asked whether she had concerns about political statements during the festival potentially distracting from the films themselves, Moore said…