FT Series Cannes Film Festival 2019 From Jim Jarmusch’s zombie comedy to new films from Almodóvar and Ken Loach, we review the highlights from this year’s event © Reuters Cannes: Once Upon a Time in . . . Hollywood — Quentin Tarantino’s nostalgia-fuelled joyride through 1969Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie star in a fairytale that is giddy with revisionist history Cannes: Diego Maradona gets the Asif Kapadia treatmentFrom the maker of Amy and Senna, this documentary is slick and compelling but never probes too deeply Cannes: A Hidden Life — Terrence Malick’s picturesque ode to wartime sufferingThe story of an Austrian conscientious objector and his wife is told in three hours of tilling, toiling and Christian stoicism Cannes: Portrait of a Lady on Fire — a turbulent drama about female gazing from Céline SciammaThe film is one of only three by female directors vying for the Palme d’Or Cannes: The Climb — hilarious ups and downs of a broken bromanceNewcomers Kyle Marvin and Michael Angelo Covino excel in a booze-soaked and bittersweet comedy gem Cannes: Pain and Glory — Almodóvar dabbles in unflattering auto-fictionAntonio Banderas stars as a film-maker with more than a passing resemblance to the great auteur More from this Series Cannes: Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You — a piercing drama about a zero-hours-contract driverYes, Loach is didactic, but you have to admire his undimmed passion. And he knows how to deliver the gut-punch Cannes: The Dead Don’t Die — is there life in the zombie film yet?Bill Murray, Adam Driver and Tilda Swinton star in Jim Jarmusch’s festival-opening horror-comedy Cannes: Les Misérables — Victor Hugo meets La Haine in a pulsating policierSet in the Paris banlieue 150 years after the classic novel, Ladj Ly’s urgent drama explores a city still rife with social ills Cannes: Bacurau — psychos and psychotropics in the tropicsEverything in Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s film is extreme Netflix v Cannes: inside the battle for the future of cinemaAn ongoing dispute between the film festival and the streaming giant could forever reshape the movie business
