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UPDATE: Swedish filmmaker Ruben Ostlund led one of his now trademark primal screams inside the Palais tonight as his latest film, Triangle Of Sadness, was crowned with the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d'Or. This is the second time Ostlund has won the prestigious prize, following 2017's The Square. Ostlund tonight…

After taking home the Un Certain Regard Fipresci prize in 2018 for the trans-female ballet dancer feature Girl, filmmaker Lukas Dhont returned to home to find himself staring at the blank page for his next project. That would ultimately be this year’s in competition movie, Close, which grapples with teen suicide and…

Belgium's Lukas Dhont takes a deserved step up to the Cannes Film Festival competition with Close, only his second film — a minimalist melodrama that shows a definite growth in visual style but may be confronting to some with its deliberately unhurried, Eric Rohmer-esque aesthetic. The international success of Dhont's…

A24 has picked up North American rights to Lukas Dhont's Close. The movie is making its world premiere tonight in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Close follows the intense friendship between 13-year-old boys Léo and Remi (newcomers Eden Dambrine, Gustav De Waele), which suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to…

Lukas Dhont graduates to the main Competition today at Cannes as his new movie Close premieres. It's the highly anticipated second feature from the Belgian helmer after his debut, Girl, premiered here in Un Certain Regard. And as Dhont readies for the festival's biggest stage, his two young leads, newcomers Eden…

EXCLUSIVE: Mubi has acquired Lukas Dhont's Cannes Competion entry Close for the UK, Ireland, Latin America, Turkey and India. Starring Lea Drucker (Custody), Émilie Dequenne (Our Children), Kevin Janssens (Revenge) and newcomers Eden Dambrine and Gustav De Waele, the film will get its world premiere on the…

Lukas Dhont's Cannes debut was also his debut feature, Girl, which ran in Un Certain Regard in 2018. A stunning start for the young Belgian, the movie brought him the Caméra d'Or and myriad other prizes down the line. Now, four years later, Dhont is returning to Cannes with his follow-up, Close, which has landed him…

EXCLUSIVE: On the eve of the Cannes Film Festival, Competition title Close has sold to Lucky Red for Italy, Vertigo Films for Spain and Lev Cinemas for Israel. The Match Factory is handling sales on Lukas Dhont’s second feature, about how an intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys is unexpectedly…