Film-Forward

The iconoclastic Canadian designer Bruce Mau, who has helped expand the perception of what design could do, takes the spotlight.

Don’t believe the hype. If audiences flee to the exits, it is most likely for the airless, glum atmosphere and the murky, metaphorical screenplay rather than the gore.

No other team of directors or style of filmmaking are as emblematic of what the festival has recently stood for than the Belgium directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, and they were honored with the Cannes 75th Anniversary Award for their new film.

How to deal with a hostage crisis: Going in with guns blazing and asking questions afterwards vs. keeping lines of communication open and maintaining calm.

It took 10 days to find this personal favorite at this year’s festival.

The most entertaining and slick genre film at Cannes, and among the few in this year’s competition where a woman really held all the cards. 

The most audacious, funniest, and unpredictable work seen at this year’s festival.

A documentary love letter to David Bowie and a blast of wall-to-wall music from his 50-year career.

Director Charlotte Wells has struck gold with her young discovery, Frankie Corio, who delivered one of the best and most lived-in performances in the festival’s entire lineup.