PAUL DONOVAN applauds an intriguing multi-layered depiction, dominated by a stunning impersonation of Marilyn herself
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The gen from Cannes
Star critic RITA DI SANTO recommends two outstanding depictions of working-class lives in England and Finland as the pick of the bunch
Ken Loach's The Old Oak (left) and Aki Kaurismaki’s Fallen Leaves (right) are the outstanding films of the festival
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LEO BOIX applauds an audacious, self-questioning film about grief, friendship and film-making
MARY CONWAY admires a brave and topical study of Armageddon that is, unfortunately, unable to come to a conclusion
ANDY HEDGECOCK, JAMES WALSH and JAMIE BRITTON review Hanging by a Wire, I Want Your Sex, The Pout-Pout Fish, and Rise of the Foot Soldier: Retribution
Chris Searle speaks to US pianist RAN BLAKE
The Bard hands out medals for his Edinburgh campaign and urges us to support The Men They Couldn’t Hang
THIS year’s Cannes Film Festival jury awarded the Palme d’Or unanimously to Anatomy of a Fall by French director Justine Triet.
It is a poignant and absorbing drama about the wife of a frustrated writer charged with his murder after his death in suspicious circumstances.
While their 11-year-old son tries to make sense of what happened, it is the woman’s way of life that appears to be under examination, more than the question of guilt.
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