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    • Wednesday, 25 May, 2022
      The best of Cannes Film Festival 2022
      Cannes review quick bites: Dardennes’ migration drama Tori and Lokita

      Also reviewed: Park Chan-wook’s satisfying noir Decision to Leave

    • Tuesday, 24 May, 2022
      ReviewFilm
      The best of Cannes Film Festival 2022
    • Monday, 23 May, 2022
      The best of Cannes Film Festival 2022
      Five stars for Aftersun at Cannes — a subtle summer marvel

      ‘Normal People’ star Paul Mescal charms in a graceful, sun-kissed story about a father and a daughter

    • Monday, 23 May, 2022
      The best of Cannes Film Festival 2022
      Three Thousand Years of Longing, Cannes review — Idris Elba’s genie casts the perfect spell

      George Miller directs Elba and a buttoned-down Tilda Swinton in a kaleidoscopic, warm-hearted fantasy epic

    • Monday, 23 May, 2022
      The best of Cannes Film Festival 2022
      Triangle of Sadness, Cannes review — bloated satire takes fitfully funny aim at privilege

      Previous Palme d’Or-winner Ruben Östlund returns with perfect pecs, vom-com and Woody Harrelson at sea

    • Thursday, 19 May, 2022
      The best of Cannes Film Festival 2022
      Cannes Film Festival kicks off with Zelensky, Tom Cruise and African heroism

      Early reviews of Russian drama ‘Tchaikovsky’s Wife’, French-Senegalese war movie ‘Father and Soldier’ and New York coming-of-age tale ‘Armageddon Time’

    • Thursday, 15 July, 2021
      ReviewCannes Film Festival
      Cannes gets frenetic and fantastic after slow start

      Despite the presence of stars and big-name directors, many films were lacklustre until Wes Anderson and Julia Ducournau rode to the rescue

    • Thursday, 8 July, 2021
      ReviewCannes Film Festival
      Delayed Cannes Film Festival opens with dark and eccentric musical Annette

      Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard star as a comedian and opera singer in Leos Carax’s fraught story of love and manipulation

    • Tuesday, 21 May, 2019
      FT SeriesCannes Film Festival 2019
      Cannes: A Hidden Life — Terrence Malick’s picturesque ode to wartime suffering

      The story of an Austrian conscientious objector and his wife is told in three hours of tilling, toiling and Christian stoicism

    • Monday, 20 May, 2019
      FT SeriesCannes Film Festival 2019
      Cannes: Portrait of a Lady on Fire — a turbulent drama about female gazing from Céline Sciamma

      The film is one of only three by female directors vying for the Palme d’Or

    • Tuesday, 26 June, 2018
      House & Home
      France’s Côte d’Azur feels ‘Macron effect’

      As Brexit cools British buyers, fiscal reforms from Paris are reviving the market

    • Friday, 1 June, 2018
      Life & Arts
      Lupino, Varda, DuVernay: women who have shaped cinema

      The BFI’s summer season celebrates the work of three groundbreaking female directors of different eras

    • Monday, 21 May, 2018
      FT SeriesCannes Film Festival 2018
      Shoplifters make off with Palme d’Or

      Hirokazu Kore-eda’s unsettling family drama takes the top prize in a difficult year for Cannes

    • Monday, 14 May, 2018
      FT SeriesCannes Film Festival 2018
      Girls of the Sun and Happy as Lazzaro — women take on the competition and Cannes itself

      Female directors, historically under-represented in the Competition, delivered two films of varying quality

    • Friday, 13 April, 2018
      Life & Arts
      Small screens, big reputations at the first Canneseries

      The film mecca lured global fans of high-end TV drama with a festival devoted to the form

    • Friday, 16 March, 2018
      Property sector
      Presidents Club scandal casts cloud over Mipim

      Sleazier side still evident despite heightened scrutiny of annual property jamboree

    • Wednesday, 28 June, 2017
      John Gapper
      Time runs out for the 30-second television ad

      A narrative format crafted for viewing breaks does not work online

    • Friday, 2 June, 2017
      Newspaper industry
      The parties are over at Cannes ad festival

      Organisers seek to curb bad behaviour as industry awakes to sober outlook

    • Monday, 29 May, 2017
      Life & Arts
      Swedish film ‘The Square’ wins Palme d’Or while Netflix goes home empty-handed

      Ruben Östlund’s wry comedy-drama takes top prize in year dominated by middle-class crises

    • Friday, 26 May, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Good Time — nocturnal and nervy

      Robert Pattinson turns in a winning performance in the Safdie brothers’ edgy crime thriller

    • Friday, 19 May, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Okja — a rollicking fable

      Netflix’s Cannes debut includes star turns from Tilda Swinton and a CGI super-pig

    • Wednesday, 17 May, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Ismael’s Ghosts — messy beaucoup

      Arnaud Desplechin’s psychological drama gets this year’s festival off to a rocky start

    • Sunday, 21 August, 2016
      Delphine Strauss
      Covering up divisions will not help French society to heal

      France needs an honest discussion of what secularism come to means, writes Delphine Strauss

    • Friday, 12 August, 2016
      World
      Mayor of Cannes defiant over move to ban burkinis on the beach

      Cannes official defends decision after criticism from Muslim and human rights groups

    • Friday, 8 July, 2016
      FT AlphavilleEquities
      “Previously nicknamed the ‘Uber’ or ‘Netflix’ of air travel…”
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