We play hooky from the strained seriousness of the Competition films to enjoy a real, fun movie
Rust and Bone: The Love Story of Two Cripples
Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard stars in a gritty romance of outrageous plot contrivances and splendid performances
The Best Fashion Moments from the 2012 Cannes Film Festival
With the 65th annual Cannes Film Festival under way, the red carpet has been filled with celebrities dressed to impress. TIME looks at the top fashion moments so far.
Moonrise Kingdom: Escapees from a Doll House
The 2012 Cannes Film Festival kicks off with Wes Anderson’s sweet tale of runaway lovers on the cusp of adolescence
Cannes Preview: What to Expect When You’re Inspecting…
The 65th Cannes Film Festival may be short on directorial star quality but high on Hollywood glamour
A Golden Palm for The Tree of Life
The shy guy was a no-show again, and this time as the guest of honor. The Tree of Life, Terrence Malick’s grand view of the universe as reflected in one suburban Texas family in the 1950s, won the Palme d’Or, the top prize of the …
If I’d Been Tweeting from Cannes…
…the messages would’ve been madly multi-part, with as many chapters as the whole Harry Potter opus. My editors know I can’t say ‘Hi’ in 140 words, let alone 140 characters. I think I’m already over the l
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In French, it is spelled ‘tuite’?
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The chatter onscreen, in the press conferences, at café tables, among the …
The Artist: Cannes’ Beauty Spot
Delight is not a word frequently associated with the films at Cannes. Seriousness, slowness, strangeness: the movies on the Grand Palais screen are often dour and demanding. This year the world’s most acclaimed directors have …
Sean Penn Leads a Fast Five Films for Friday
The countdown ticks toward Sunday’s Palme d’Or ceremony. With two days left, only two of the 20 film in competition are left to see. In a Festival that began with big names and high hopes, a gentle malaise has settled upon the
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The Skin I Live In: Almodovar’s Surgical Thriller
The noted plastic surgeon Robert Ledgard (Antonio Banderas) believes that his radical experimentation in “transgenesis” could cure diseases and correct deformities. But what the doctor really wants to do is direct — to …
Cannes Bans Lars von Trier for Nazi Remarks
How far is too far? For the gentlefolk who run the Cannes Film Festival, too far is when a crazy-great director like Lars von Trier uses Europe’s version of the N word: Nazi.
Melancholia: Lars von Trier’s Tree of Death
Wagner’s Overture for Tristan und Isolde thunders its ominous beauty on the soundtrack, and a blond woman (Kirsten Dunst) in a bridal gown watches anxiously as birds fall dead from the sky. In a farther region of the sky, one …
Lars von Trier: “O.K., I’m a Nazi”
Within the hour, Richard Corliss will be posting his review of Lars von Trier’s (in my view, excellent) new film Melancholia, which had its world premiere this morning. But von Trier, the wildly talented, supremely maddening Danish director of such Cannes favorites as Europa/Zentropa, Breaking the Waves and Antichrist, topped himself for …