Neon, Mist and a Man in Leather: Nicolas Winding Refn Returns with Her Private Hell
Ten years after The Neon Demon, Nicolas Winding Refn returns to Cannes with a lavish, violent fairytale in neon and fog, carried by a…
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Cannes 2026
The Governess Who Never Stopped Smiling: Virginia Feito’s Victorian Psycho Takes Cannes
Spanish novelist Virginia Feito adapts her own gothic satire for Zachary Wigon, with Maika Monroe as a governess whose impeccable manners hide something far…
The Women Europe Depends On—but Prefers Not to See
With Strawberrys, Laïla Marrakchi transforms the strawberry fields of southern Spain into the setting for a deeply human story about exploitation, migration, and the…
The Bodies That Keep Resisting Even as Everything Around Them Begins to Melt
With Meltdown, Manuela Martelli transforms the frozen landscape of Chile’s far south into a hypnotic and deeply political meditation on memory, motherhood, and the…
The Versions of Truth We Build in Order to Keep Living
With Parallel Tales, Asghar Farhadi returns to Cannes with a precise and devastating moral thriller in which every ordinary decision exposes the ethical fragility…
The Violence Behind the Perfect Smile
With Gentle Monster, Marie Kreutzer leaves behind the intimate spaces of traditional psychological drama to craft an elegant and unsettling satire about contemporary femininity,…
The Night Everything Begins to Rot
With Histoires de la nuit, Léa Mysius transforms a family celebration into an intimate nightmare about secrets, violence, and the emotional fictions we construct…
The Human Face of Resistance
With Moulin, László Nemes leaves behind the abstract labyrinths of his previous films to immerse audiences in a visceral and claustrophobic experience of torture,…
Dancing While the World Disappears
With The Man I Love, Ira Sachs transforms New York at the height of the AIDS crisis into a space suspended between desire, fragility,…
Cinema as an Inherited Wound
With The Beloved, Rodrigo Sorogoyen turns a film production into an emotional battlefield where power, guilt, and the desperate need for affection permeate every…