Festivals
French cinema tried to hide its violence against women. At Cannes, we’re calling it out | Rokhaya Diallo
I took to the red carpet alongside other activists to highlight sexual violence. Now women of colour need a bigger place in the movement, says Guardian Europe columnist Rokhaya Diallo
Rokhaya Diallo
23, May, 2024 @6:00 AM
Motel Destino review – terrifically acted Brazilian erotic noir thriller
A young man on the run from a mob boss lands an unlikely job in a brutally functional love motel and starts a passionate affair with the manager’s wife
Peter Bradshaw
22, May, 2024 @10:30 PM
Grand Tour review – engaged couple’s sweet, strange colonial era hide-and-seek
Miguel Gomes’s beguiling and bewildering story follows a jittery fiance fleeing his intended across the British empire, and her hot pursuit
Peter Bradshaw
22, May, 2024 @3:09 PM
Parthenope review – Paolo Sorrentino contrives a facile, bikini-clad self-parody
The heroine is a victim of her own beauty in this exercise in languorous image-making that is too conceited to allow any emotional investment
Peter Bradshaw
22, May, 2024 @11:22 AM
Marcello Mio review – droll Catherine Deneuve best thing in twee Mastroianni family whimsy
Playing themselves, film icons gaze into the looking-glass in this unconvincing and tiresome piece of cine-narcissism
Peter Bradshaw
22, May, 2024 @9:27 AM
Anora review – stellar turn from Mikey Madison in sex work non-love story
Sean Baker’s tragicomedy features Madison as an escort betrayed by a bratty oligarch’s son who she marries in a film that offers a more realistic take than Pretty Woman
Peter Bradshaw
21, May, 2024 @5:11 PM
Trump movie The Apprentice: ‘I don’t think it is a movie he would dislike,’ says director
Ali Abbasi spoke at Cannes about his controversial new film, which the Trump campaign has said ‘belongs in a dumpster fire’
Xan Brooks
21, May, 2024 @12:58 PM
Rumours review – close encounters for Cate Blanchett and the magnificent G7
Seven world leaders – including Charles Dance’s dozy US president – are trapped in a forest in this amusing but bizarre apocalyptic comedy
Peter Bradshaw
21, May, 2024 @10:11 AM
Goths, gays, punks and surfers: behind the wild rise of Lollapalooza
The story of the music festival is brought to life in a new docuseries that takes viewers from Rage Against the Machine to Chance the Rapper
Andrew Lawrence
21, May, 2024 @9:17 AM
The Apprentice: Trump campaign threatens legal action over biopic that depicts him as a rapist
Campaign spokesperson called Ali Abbasi’s film, which premiered at Cannes on Monday, ‘pure fiction which sensationalises lies that have been long debunked’
Sian Cain
21, May, 2024 @12:29 AM
The Shrouds review – David Cronenberg gets wrapped up in grief
Elaborate necrophiliac meditation on loss and longing stars Vincent Cassel as an oncologist who has founded a restaurant with a hi-tech cemetery attached
Peter Bradshaw
20, May, 2024 @9:59 PM
Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice depicts him as a rapist
Ali Abbasi’s film, starring Sebastian Stan, presents a fictionalised account of an incident recorded in Ivana Trump’s 1990 divorce deposition, and since retracted
Xan Brooks
20, May, 2024 @5:22 PM
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