Resonances

CANNES, France — French veteran Alain Resnais returned to Cannes two weeks before his 90th birthday on Monday with a theatrical film about love, death and acting, one of 22 running for the Palme d'Or top prize.Resnais first came to Cannes in 1959 with the New Wave classic "Hiroshima Mon Amour"...

CANNES, France, May 20, 2012 (AFP) - A duo of octogenarian actors bowled Cannes over on Sunday as a devoted husband and his dying wife in a wrenching cinematic study of love at the bitter end by Palme d'Or winner Michael Haneke.The Austrian director, who scooped the festival's top award in 2009...

CANNES, France, May 19, 2012 (AFP) - Rocker Nick Cave and director John Hillcoat on Saturday took a swipe at the "failed" war on drugs as they presented their "Lawless" Prohibition-era rural gangster movie at Cannes."Prohibition still exists today. It still fails...

ROME, May 18, 2012 (AFP) - Horror is coming to the Cannes Film Festival this week, courtesy of Italian cult director Dario Argento who told AFP in an interview that his 3D Dracula is "a man for our times".One of Quentin Tarantino's biggest inspirations, the 71-year-old with deep-set eyes...