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Irish co-production ‘The Lobster’ wins Cannes Jury Prize

Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan’ wins Palme d’Or to gasps in the auditorium

Mon May 25 2015 - 09:56

Cannes 2015: who’ll bag the Palme d’Or?

It looks like a three-horse race led by Todd Haynes’s ‘Carol’, starring Cate Blanchett, and László Nemes’s ‘Son of Saul’. Could Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s stunningly beautiful ‘The Assassin’ sneak through to win?

Sat May 23 2015 - 07:15

Love: powerful atmospherics; far too much orgy-based sex in 3D | Cannes Review

Whereas 50 Shades of Grey didn’t offer much you could properly call sex, arch provocateur Gaspar Noé’s latest is very much the real banana

Fri May 22 2015 - 12:04

The Assassin: the work of an obsessive tinkerer | Cannes Review

Hou Hsiao-hsien latest is the best-looking film in Cannes this year, but its beauty is both a strength and occasional weakness

Fri May 22 2015 - 11:28

Dheepan: lacks the gravitas of Jacques Audiard’s best-loved works | Cannes Review

A contender in the main competition, ‘Dheepan’ nevertheless feels like a doodle compared to Audiard’s recent output

Thu May 21 2015 - 13:29

Green Room: hardcore punks battle neo-Nazi thugs - what’s not to like? | Cannes Review

Featuring fine performances and even finer brutality, Jeremy Saulnier’s gruesome battle of American sub-cultures is one of the best of the fest

Thu May 21 2015 - 11:47

Watch: First official trailer for new Amy Winehouse documentary

Wed May 20 2015 - 17:09

Youth: flawed, lovely, odd | Cannes Review

Paolo Sorrentino’s latest star-studded affair is ravishingly beautiful but a little short on coherence

Wed May 20 2015 - 15:23

Mountains May Depart: Time shifts, culture clashes and a potentially award-winning performance | Cannes review

Jia Zhangke is one of the world’s top filmmakers and this is his most audacious work yet, but this mountain is not as solid as it first seems

Wed May 20 2015 - 11:31

Marguerite & Julien: unconvincing, mildly hilarious | Cannes Review

Quite how this ludicrous French incest romp found itself in the main competition at this year's festival is anyone’s guess

Tue May 19 2015 - 12:03

Sicario: the slick mayhem of secret drug wars | Cannes review

Emily Blunt and Benicio del Toro battle it out, while Denis Villeneuve shows his action chops ahead of his Blade Runner sequel

Tue May 19 2015 - 11:57

Cemetery of Splendour: Ancient forces make for a seductive and refreshing film | Cannes review

Although odder than squirrels in sombreros, this film is Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s most conventional yet and among his best work

Tue May 19 2015 - 10:46

Inside Out: a return to form for Pixar | Cannes review

This animated trip inside the mind is funny, sweet and wise enough to suggest that Pixar has got its groove back

Tue May 19 2015 - 09:13

The Measure of a Man: Vincent Lindon sets the acting bar | Cannes Review

Long takes and a matter-of-fact treatment add up to a quietly savage treatment of the capitalist machine

Mon May 18 2015 - 16:22

Louder Than Bombs: achingly tasteful, well acted, frustratingly bland | Cannes Review

Norwegian Joachim Trier’s latest features Isabelle Huppert, Gabriel Byrne, Jesse Eisenberg and very little else

Mon May 18 2015 - 13:09

Cornucopias of delight still in prospect at 68th Cannes Film Festival

The race for the 2015 Palme d’Or looks at this stage to be between ‘Son of Saul’ and ‘Carol’, two extraordinary pictures from two very different film-makers

Mon May 18 2015 - 01:00

Son of Saul: A work of high artifice from the heart of the Nazi killing machine | Cannes Review

Son of Saul is potentially the last ever Palme d’Or winner to be shot and projected with film: it would be quite the way to go

Sun May 17 2015 - 15:35

The Lobster: a spookily beautiful, treacle-black absurdist comedy | Cannes Review

Yorgos Lanthimos’s poisonously effective film may be about the tyranny of coupledom, or it may not...

Fri May 15 2015 - 14:10

Our Little Sister: Fish, football and family tragedies | Cannes Review

Hirokazu Kore-eda has made a quiet and lovely thing; a bit more plot and structure would not go amiss though

Fri May 15 2015 - 13:59

An: hard to love, impossible to dislike | Cannes Review

Naomi Kawase’s latest hammers home the metaphors, but its conviction and intelligence also shine through

Thu May 14 2015 - 14:21

Catherine Deneuve adds glamour to low-key Cannes Film Festival

Opening film obscure, but the 68th festival has much to offer, writes Donald Clarke in Cannes

Thu May 14 2015 - 11:16

From Fassbender's Macbeth to Farrell's Lobster: Donald Clarke's first picks for Cannes 2015

The Irish Times will be keeping a close eye on all the happenings up and down the Croisette at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Meanwhile, here are a few of the movies whetting our appetite

Wed May 13 2015 - 15:24

Mad Max 4: ‘The film you couldn’t kill with a stick’

Interview: The French were the first to see Mad Max as a western on wheels, says director George Miller. Forty years later, he’s back in Cannes with the explosive fourth part, Fury Road

Wed May 13 2015 - 08:15