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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…

Filmmaker Karim Aïnouz returns to the Cannes Film Festival this year with Mariner Of The Mountains, a moving documentary which sees the director travel for the first time to Algeria, his father's homeland. Aïnouz stopped by Deadline's Cannes Studio to talk about his most intimate work yet as he documents the story of…

Filmmaker Jonas Carpignano rounds out his Calabrian trilogy with Directors’ Fortnight entry A Chiara, the story of a 15-year-old girl who learns some hard truths about her close-knit family when her father disappears. Carpignano stopped by Deadline’s Cannes Studio to talk about making the film and his experiences in…

Joachim Trier's The Worst Person In The World is the closing chapter of the director's Oslo trilogy after Reprise (2006) and 2011's Oslo, August 31. In the Cannes Film Festival competition this year, it’s a look at how one's supposedly best years pass by so quickly you barely realize it. Trier and his stars Renate…

Marion Cotillard, who already saw in the opening night premiere of Annette in Cannes, yesterday celebrated the release of Bigger Than Us, a new documentary she executive produces from director Flore Vasseur, which explores the social movement of young people fighting for change in the 21st Century. And the pair…

"So may we start?" asked the teaser trailer for Leos Carax's anarchic musical Annette, which proved to be an ebullient, if divisive, introduction to the 74th Cannes film festival. Starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard as two ill-fated lovers—one a comedian, the other an opera singer—the film chalks up another…

Filmed in a remote part of Costa Rica, Nathalie Álvarez Mesén's dramatic debut feature stars Colombian dancer Wendy Chinchilla in her debut screen role, playing the title character—a middle-aged woman whose repressed sexuality is about to flower. When she came by the Deadline Studio, Costa Rican-Swedish director Mesén…

If The Velvet Underground had known how popular they would become in the years after their demise, they might never have split up. Instead, one by one, the original members quit the band formed by Lou Reed and John Cale in the mid-60s, leaving newcomer Doug Yule to soldier on with a completely different band until…