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The Cannes film festival kicks off
We go inside Francis Ford Coppola’s 40-year battle to film Megalopolis
The director has spent half his life and $120m of his own money to make his sci-fi epic – but some of his crew members are questioning his methods
The latest from Cannes
Greta Gerwig
‘The number of female directors has gotten better. We’re not done yet’
‘Exhausting and extremely dangerous’
Mohammad Rasoulof on his escape from Iran
The women defying national and gender boundaries
‘To escape Gaza is already an achievement. And then to be trans?’
Bird
Andrea Arnold’s untamed Barry Keoghan tale is a curate’s egg
An Unfinished Film
Moving and mysterious movie about China’s Covid crisis
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
Rungano Nyoni’s strange, intense tale of sexual abuse
More picks of the week
‘I am gross, animal and carnal’
Luna Carmoon on her disturbing, stinky-scented new film
‘I did a lot of yelling’
Tom Burke on socks, controversy and Mad Max
Risk and reward
Life as a stunt double
Ranked!
The greatest dancer of all time? Fred Astaire’s 20 best films
Slow
The Lithuanian asexual romcom that raises ‘a lot of questions’
‘It was a horrific night’
30 years on from the on-set death of Brandon Lee
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Hoard
A haunting study of loneliness and thwarted sexuality
Luna Carmoon’s deeply strange and compelling study of hysteria shows the ways in which childhood trauma can bloom in adult life
This week's reviews
Ospina Cali Colombia
Giant of Latin American activist cinema explains himself
Tiger Stripes
Coming-of-age body horror releases the monster inside
Flickering Lights
How the arrival of electricity heralded peace in a turbulent Indian state
If
John Krasinski’s so-so, sentimental family fantasy
Vaychiletik
Beautifully-shot Mexican folk music study in the high arthouse style
We recommend
Emma
Sweetness, spite and bared bottoms
Anya Taylor-Joy revels in the role of the handsome, clever heroine with a sadistic streak in this amiable adaptation of Jane Austen’s great romcom
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