Cannes 2023
From Poor Things to American Fiction: where does this year’s Oscar race stand?
With the major fall film festivals out of the way, this year’s unusual strike-affected awards season is starting to shape up
Benjamin Lee
20, Sep, 2023 @4:07 PM
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny review - Harrison Ford cracks the whip in taut sequel
There’s still much to dig about the octogenarian archeologist as he teams up with Phoebe Waller-Bridge to re-defeat the Nazis
Peter Bradshaw in Cannes
28, Jun, 2023 @4:44 PM
A chewy choice for the Palme – but what an extraordinary Cannes
Anatomy of a Fall is a seriously good film which few would deny the top prize, yet from Glazer to Kaurismaki to Wenders there was brilliant competition elsewhere
Peter Bradshaw
27, May, 2023 @8:10 PM
Cannes 2023 week two roundup – still a country for old men?
Films from Scorsese, Loach, Wim Wenders and more are some of the best in this year’s competition, but ahead of them all is Jonathan Glazer’s mighty Auschwitz drama The Zone of Interest
Xan Brooks
27, May, 2023 @12:00 PM
The Old Oak review – Ken Loach’s fierce final call for compassion and solidarity
A northern pub landlord confronts locals’ hostility towards Syrian immigrants in Loach’s latest – and possibly last – piece of politically trenchant cinema
Peter Bradshaw
26, May, 2023 @6:23 PM
La Chimera review – Alice Rohrwacher’s uproarious adventure teems with life
Set in 1980s Tuscany, Rohrwacher’s captivating film follows a lovelorn Englishman plundering Italy’s historical artefacts with a bizarre gang
Peter Bradshaw
26, May, 2023 @3:40 PM
‘Bolder than ever’: Cannes fuses film and glamour in unofficial fashion week
In risk-taking red carpet gowns, actors and supermodels attend parties and fashion shows hosted by likes of Versace and Naomi Campbell
Morwenna Ferrier
26, May, 2023 @3:34 PM
Big names, joyful hugs, auteur fury: verdict and prize predictions for Cannes 2023
Another year, another star-studded cohort of cinephiles – and, right on cue, our own roundup of winners and alternative ‘Braddies’
Peter Bradshaw
26, May, 2023 @1:11 PM
‘They wanted their accounts to be heard’: the film-maker who drove 400 Ukrainians to safety
As In the Rearview premieres at Cannes, its director explains how he made a movie about transporting people across the border in his VW and why he’s rejected the red carpet for a borrowed rug from a bombed home
Xan Brooks
26, May, 2023 @8:43 AM
Last Summer review – Catherine Breillat’s all too safe version of a dangerous romance
Breillat’s remake of Queen of Hearts rather pointlessly draws the sting from a mother’s affair with her teenage stepson
Peter Bradshaw
25, May, 2023 @7:15 PM
Perfect Days review – Wim Wenders explores a quiet life in Tokyo
Bittersweet tale of an apparently contented toilet cleaner has an ambient urban charm, but feels a little too understated
Peter Bradshaw
25, May, 2023 @4:03 PM
Close Your Eyes review – Victor Erice returns with enigmatic tale of disappeared actor
The Spirit of the Beehive director’s first feature in 30 years uses a film-within-a-film structure to ruminate on memory, ageing and cinema itself
Peter Bradshaw
25, May, 2023 @7:02 AM
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