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Jacques Audiard returned to the Cannes Film Festival competition this year with Paris, 13th District (Les Olympiades), an adaptation of stories by American comic book writer and artist Adrian Tomine. Shot in the French capital during the pandemic, and predominantly in black-and-white, it follows Emilie, Camille, Nora…

Asghar Farhadi took the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival with his latest work, A Hero (Ghahreman), which has been hailed as his most subtle and heartfelt film since A Separation. We chatted with the Oscar-winner about the film in which a good deed goes bad (check out the video above). The story centers on…

Neon's The Year Of The Everlasting Storm, one of the company's first original productions, had its world premiere as a Special Screening at the Cannes Film Festival, and four of the anthology film's seven directors visited with Deadline at our Cannes Studio. Anthony Chen, Malik Vitthal, Dominga Sotomayor and…

Lauded for her turn in Céline Sciamma's 2019 Cannes Film Festival competition entry, Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, Noémie Merlant returned to the Riviera this year with her directing debut, Mi Iubita, Mon Amour. The story follows Jeanne (Merlant), a young woman about to get married who travels to Romania to celebrate…

Veteran French director Arnaud Desplechin returned this year to the Cannes Film Festival with Deception (Tromperie), an adaptation of one of Philip Roth's most openly personal novels. It details a string of affairs conducted by Jewish-American writer "Philip," here played by French actor Denis Podalydes. Both stopped…

Actress turned first-time filmmaker Anaïs Volpé was on tenterhooks when she visited the Deadline studio midway through the premiere of her Directors' Fortnight entry The Braves. Starring Souheila Yacoub and Déborah Lukumuena, it tells the two young Parisian actresses who enjoy a close bond and a friendly rivalry…

Between rocking the Cannes film festival with her surreal, ultraviolent serial-killer thriller and picking up the Palme d'Or, director Julia Ducournau and cast members Agathe Rousselle and Vincent Landon found time to speak to Deadline about the genre mash-up that divided critics but united Spike Lee's jury. Ducournau…

Caleb Landry Jones won Cannes’ Best Actor prize last night for his turn in Justin Kurzel’s Nitram. The film charts the events leading up to the Port Arthur Massacre in Tasmania in 1996, in which a lone gunman, Martin Bryant, took the lives of 35 people and left 23 others injured. It was the worst mass shooting in…

Justin Chon’s Blue Bayou premiered in Cannes last week to a 7-minute standing ovation. The actor/writer/director’s tale about a Korean-American man’s struggle to remain in the United States—a country he had lived in since he was a kid—after being arrested on a minor charge clearly struck a chord with the Cote d’Azur…

Mia Hansen-Løve’s long-gestating Bergman Island finally took its world premiere bow this week at the Cannes Film Festival, and quickly became one of the highlights of this year’s Competition. The film’s story follows Tim Roth and Vicky Krieps, who joined Hansen-Løve at Deadline’s Cannes Studio, and who star as a pair…

In his documentary debut Machines (2016) director Rahul Jain addressed the issues of cheap labour in his homeland, India. It was a loose, experiential affair intended to flood the senses, but for the follow-up, Cannes entry Invisible Demons, he has opted for something a little more direct. Taking New Delhi as his…

Screening Out Of Competition—to the bemusement of critics and its director alike—Ari Folman's Where Is Anne Frank premiered to great acclaim at this year's Cannes film festival. Adapted from the wartime memoir by the German-Dutch Jewish girl who died at the hands of the Nazis in 1945, Folman's animated film uses The Di…