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The 8 best movies we saw at Cannes Film Festival 2026

FILM: The best of this year’s festival as selected by Jacob Stolworthy and Patrick Smith, including a metaphysical head-scratcher, an adrenaline-pumping monster movie and a sweeping epic that could be a serious awards contender

The Independent UK

Cannes got it wrong this year by awarding Palme d’Or to Cristian Mungiu’s very moderate Fjord

Film about a couple on trial for child abuse isn’t a patch on the director’s previous Palme winner, while other disappointing films seemed to grab the jury’s attention

The Guardian - UK

All of a Sudden review – care home drama is tender, meditative and a little too precious for its own good

Cannes film festival: Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s ocean-hopping treatise on love and mortality is undeniably beautiful – but it works best in its quieter, compassionate moments rather than the flurries of self-conscious solemnity

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Anatomy of a Fall director Justine Triet: ‘I didn’t feel that French cinema wanted me around’

When the film-maker won this year’s Palme d’Or, she shocked France with her acceptance speech. Here, the unrepentant auteur talks about women on trial – and working with her husband

The Guardian - UK

What to stream this week: Ed Sheeran, 'The Voice,' 'The Golden Bachelor' and Wes Anderson returns

This week’s new entertainment releases include an album from Ed Sheeran centered on his relationships, a spinoff of “The Bachelor” starring a 72-year-old widower and Wes Anderson returns for a second time this year with “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar” starring Benedict Cumberbatch

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Paris Memories review – soulful portrait of a terrorist attack survivor

Based on her brother’s experience of the Bataclan attack in Paris, Alice Winocour’s unexpectedly hopeful drama is lit up by a César-winning performance from Virginie Efira

The Guardian - UK

Paris Memories review – deep-feeling drama about the aftermath of a terror attack

Film-maker Alice Winocour based her film on her brother’s experience of the Bataclan attacks, but focuses on how survivors put their lives back together after such events

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‘I was making a film about the trauma of an entire country’: director Alice Winocour on her movie about the 2015 Paris terror attacks

After her brother was caught up in the Bataclan siege, Winocour wanted to address the events that had scarred France. She explains why she focused on the aftermath, not the violence

The Guardian - UK

Echoes of The Wizard of Oz's Emerald City in Contemporary Cinema

David Lynch, best known for the surreal, unsettling cinematic worlds he creates, is the focus of a new documentary that explores his artistic inspiration drawn from one of Hollywood’s most vibrant visual journeys: "The Wizard of Oz". Film critic Lisa Nesselson discusses how this critical examination highlights some of the…

France 24

Other People’s Children review – delicate tale of fertility and love

Virginie Efira is radiant as a French teacher, newly in love and thinking about becoming a mother – but is it too late?

The Guardian - UK

Other People’s Children review – a heartfelt modern love triangle

Venice film festival: This sweet, sad drama sees a teacher keen to be a mother bonding with her new boyfriend’s daughter, while dealing with the constant presence of his ex

The Guardian - UK

Postcard from Cannes #5: The power of collective memory

Memories are an important ingredient in the scriptwriter’s repertoire when building characters and plots. The French film "Revoir Paris" uses subtle flashbacks to tell the intimate accounts of survivors of a terrorist attack and shows how they collectively learn to heal.

Radio France Internationale

Postcard from Cannes #1: Blood, sweat and tears

The 75th Cannes Film Festival is well and truly underway. The red carpet has been rolled out and fans are standing by to catch a glimpse of their idols. The opening ceremony on Tuesday evening underlined just how much the event is an emotional rollercoaster.

Radio France Internationale

Benedetta review: An erotic nun psychodrama that shouldn’t be treated as an anti-faith screed

Yes, a statue of the Virgin Mary is whittled down into a wooden dildo, but don’t call ‘Benedetta’ nunsploitation

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Benedetta review – Paul Verhoeven’s shockingly wholesome Tuscan nunnery tale

Verhoeven is on surprisingly tame form in this tale of erotic profanity in 17th-century Italy

The Independent UK

Benedetta review: An erotic nun psychodrama that shouldn’t be treated as an anti-faith screed

Yes, a statue of the Virgin Mary is whittled down into a wooden dildo, but don’t call ‘Benedetta’ nunsploitation

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In Benedetta, Paul Verhoeven tells the forbidden love story of two nuns while confronting gender bias in 17th century Italy

Drawing liberally on the historical record, director Paul Verhoeven delivers a sapphic love story which situates cloistered eroticism, stigmata and visions in 17th century Italy

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