‘Cinema is not dead.’ Cannes film festival makes a promising return

After cancelling in 2020, Cannes returns this summer with an extensive programme

Cannes 2019: Irish film starring Jesse Eisenberg gets rapturous reception

Vivarium, an Irish science-fiction horror, has world premiere as part of International Critics Week at the film festival

French cardinal convicted of failing to act on sex abuse allegations

Archbishop of Lyon Philippe Barbarin to offer resignation to Pope Francis in next few days

Berlin film festival: Israeli drama wins Golden Bear prize

Director Nadav Lapid’s ‘Synonyms’ takes top award with Francois Ozon’s ‘By the Grace of God’ winning Silver Bear

Vows of silence: Clergy on trial in France for failing to report abuse

Cardinal Barbarin of Lyon and five others accused over priest’s abuse of boy scouts

Violence. Sex. Drugs. Swearing. And other reasons to watch a film

Donald Clarke: What we object to at the cinema has changed. Movie ratings should too

The World Cup is keeping the big movies out of cinemas in June

Movie scheduling is a voodoo science - nobody knows why certain releases work in certain slots

‘I’ve great difficulty finding roles that aren’t just dying women’

Kristin Scott Thomas on how French cinema has better roles for women, playing Churchill's wife – and Brexit

Frantz: A scathingly anti-nationalist warning from history

A remake of Ernst Lubitsch’s 1932 anti-war classic ‘Broken Lullaby’

François Ozon: ‘I am happy that we escaped from the white extremism’

The French director’s new film ‘Frantz’ has much to say about the dangers of nationalism

François Ozon: the new new wave

Satirical wit, freewheeling sexuality and a new wave cinematic sensibility? François Ozon, director of ‘Sitcom’, ‘Swimming Pool’ and, now, ‘The New Girlfriend’, is a most French film-maker, and despite Hollywood overtures he refuses to change his style

Fanny Ardant: between the dark & the light

François Truffaut’s famous Dark Lady may be a little more auburn these days, but Ardant’s passion for life and cinema is undimmed: ‘You must follow your instincts, your pleasures, your love. And you will be a winner’

Rampling through the ages: from ‘Georgy Girl’ to ‘The Night Porter’ to ‘The Sea’

Charlotte Rampling has wandered the international cinema scene for a half a century, forever seeking challenges and shrugging off controversy. She talks about her new Irish film, an adaptation of John Banville’s ‘The Sea’, as well as projects both famous and notorious over the years

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Jeune et Jolie (Young & Beautiful)