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Jessica Hausner's pristine dystopia asks how engineered emotion can be trusted, in a cerebral Cannes Competition entry with a playful edge

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Terrence Malick returns to the Cannes Competition with A Hidden Life, an achingly beautiful blend of true events and meditative romance

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At the most prestigious film festival in the world, the biggest directors and most exciting films of the year are all premiering. Here's what to look out for

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In The Lighthouse, Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe give the demented performances of a lifetime. Robert Eggers' maritime madness is a Cannes winner in our eyes

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Cannes veteran Ken Loach returns to the Official Selection with Sorry We Missed You, a heartbreaking damnation of working-class gig economy

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Buckle up for Rocketman: Elton John's fantasy comes to life in Cannes with glorious musical pizzazz. Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell and Richard Madden star

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The 23-year-old Belgian singer wowed at Cannes Film Festival with a Chanel Haute Couture dress and a haunting performance. Here's everything you need to know about Angèle

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Jim Jarmusch (Paterson) returns to Cannes with his new film The Dead Don't Die. Adam Driver and Bill Murray lead a star-studded cast

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Ever since the Director's Fortnight at the 2018 Festival de Cannes, people have been talking about Romain Gavras' The World Is Yours, a zippy, stylish gangster comedy

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Vanessa Paradis stars in Yann Gonzalez's hyper-stylised erotic slasher Knife+Heart – after premiering in Cannes and lighting up Flare

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After winning Best Screenplay in Cannes, Happy As Lazzaro, Alice Rohrwacher's pastoral Italian tale, is set to wow the world

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Nordic folklore is combined with grisly crimes in a Swedish genre-bender Border, based on the writings of John Ajvide Lindqvist

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From influential director Asghar Farhadi and starring Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, Everybody Knows is a fine-tuned family drama that sometimes falls flat

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Based on one of the most ridiculous stories never told, Spike Lee's Oscar-winning Blackkklansman shows he hasn’t lost his touch but that may just be out of it

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From BlackKklansman to Green Book – we round up what will win, and what should win at the 2019 Oscars

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Based on a short story by Haruki Murakami, Burning wooed critics at Cannes last year and offers a mysterious thriller for the ages

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Innocence and experience jostle in Shoplifters, a beautiful, alchemical family drama from Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda who snapped up the Palme d'Or at Cannes

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A directorial debut from actor Paul Dano and starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan, Wildlife is a stripped-back drama about being reckless in your quietest moments

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A revenge story of cosmic proportions from visionary director Panos Cosmatos featuring a career-defining performance from Nicolas Cage, Mandy has us holding on to our seat

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Gaspar Noé returns with Climax, another piece of provocation, blending sex, drugs and faux-philosophical musings

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A star-studded cast featuring Marion Cotillard and Charlotte Gainsborough can’t save the latest from Arnaud Desplechin, Ismael's Ghosts from partially sinking under the weight of symbolism-induced hollowness

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Here's what you'll be watching next: the buzziest and best films that screened at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival

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Mads Mikkelsen shines in Arctic, a by-numbers but efficient one-man survival story directed with a sure hand by first-timer Joe Penna

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The second Star Wars anthology film, Solo: A Star Wars Story, is a broadly enjoyable adventure with only a few standout moments and star turns

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Deniz Gamze Ergüven makes an impressive debut with Mustang. Turkish film follows five sisters trapped at home in a remote village

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New German film Victoria is a tense and immersive thrill ride, filmed entirely in one single shot. Berlin Film Festival 2015 Silver Bear winner

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Pioneering director David Cronenberg’s new film 'Maps to the Stars' takes a surreal and satirical look at Hollywood’s sinister underbelly.