It was a moving ceremony that took place in the Salle Debussy of the Festival Palais for the opening of Un Certain Regard, which includes 18 films this year. Thierry Frémaux showed three...

"I wanted to create disorder, disobedience and politics without for all that delivering a specific message". Mathieu Amalric

The press conference for the latest film by Manoel De Oliveira, O Estranho caso de Angélica (The Strange Case of Angelica), took place this afternoon. The director was accompanied by the actors...

  Mathieu Amalric and the crew and cast of the film Tournée, presented today En Compétition, spoke at a press conference this afternoon. Chosen extracts.     Mathieu Amalric evokes the...

  This morning the press conference was held for the film Rizhao Chongqing (Chongqing Blues) presented today in Competition. The director Wang Xiaoshuai and four of his actors, Fan Bingbing,...

Rachid Bouchareb has written to the Cannes Film Festival.  Here is the text of his letter: "Over the last three weeks, there has been acrimonious debate concerning the screening of my film...

The VIP guests expected to be in attendance today are Alberto BARBERA, Kate BECKINSALE, Cate BLANCHETT, Sandrine BONNAIRE, Stephane BRIZE, Josh BROLIN, Tim BURTON, Guillaume CANET, Claudia ...

  If there is one film that was predestined to be shown in the Cinéma de la plage section, it has to be Fred Zinnemann’s From Here to Eternity, famed for that kiss on a deserted Hawaii beach,...

More than two decades after the film was first released, William Hurt is back on the Croisette to present Hector Babenco’s Kiss of the Spider Woman, scheduled for screening today at 19h45 at the...

Mathieu Amalric and his troupe of strippers open the competition, in a spirit of joy and good fun.   Mathieu Amalric has gone up the steps of the Palais as an actor in a good many festivals,...

  With Rizhao Chongqing (Chongqing Blues), Wang Xiaoshuai is the first director to enter the Festival Competition. The Chinese film maker, who is in the running for the Palme d’or, is back on...

Armed with a Masters degree in the history of cinema, Alberto Barbera made a name for himself as a film critic in the early 1980s before becoming the director of the Turin Film Festival in...

This Thursday, in his first appearance at Cannes, the director presents his fourth feature in Un Certain Regard, a film inspired by the ups and downs of married life (Salle Debussy, 14.00,...

Two years after the homage paid to him on the occasion of his one hundredth birthday, the doyen of the cinema is back at the Festival with O Estranho caso de Angélica (The Strange Case of...

  Shown today at the Opening of the Special screenings (20 hours, in the Salle du Soixantième), the new documentary by Sabina Guzzanti is a tirade against Silvio Berlusconi, who is accused of...