Irish interest at Venice film festival 2026: Martin McDonagh’s Wild Horse Nine, Werner Herzog’s Bucking Fastard and more
The Venice event is, after Cannes, comfortably the second most important film festival on the calendar
Cannes film festival
A Useful Ghost review: Audacious debut blends supernatural comedy with the thorniest satire
Cannes critics’ prize winner glides between fantasy, romance, horror and farce with the ease of a high-concept 1980s box-office smash
‘I was so welcomed in France. I think it’s because I have the nose of a Frenchman’
The Canadian actor Théodore Pellerin, star of Nino, straddles the European and North American movie worlds. With his looks, talent and nose for a good role, he should go far
Face it, the casual mob cares not if phones impinge on the audience experience of others
Future generations will find the notion of texting at the cinema or theatre as unacceptable as we now regard smoking in such places
Cannes 2026: A rumble of discontent, a swell of anxiety and a provocative Palme d’Or winner
People who haven’t seen Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord are already trading spittle-flecked invective on social media. It will generate furious debate all the way up to awards season
Cannes 2026: Cristian Mungiu wins top Palme d’Or for provocative drama Fjord
Ceremony, presented this year by actor Eye Haïdara, was a combination of slick passion and euro-oddness
Cannes First Look review: Lola Petticrew shines in I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning’s Irish line-up
Daryl McCormack and Anthony Boyle join the actor in Clio Barnard’s portrait of friends confronting stalled lives and dashed hopes
Cannes First Look review: Minotaur – grim chronicle of a selfish, privileged class willing to look the other way
Andrey Zvyagintsev delivers a chilling thriller set in provincial Russia during the Ukraine war, but the political allegory can feel overdone
Cannes First Look review: Fjord - Nail-biting drama exploring European culture and tolerance
Cristian Mungiu’s tale confirms him as one of cinema’s sharpest moral observers
Cannes First Look review: Paper Tiger – Gangsters and fixers in grimy 1980s New York
Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver star in latest drama from James Gray
Cannes First Look review: Bitter Christmas - You’ll wonder if Almodóvar is phoning it in
Eventually the Spanish auteur pulls the film’s threads together into a sharp and unexpectedly brilliant punchline
Cannes 2026: Bardem, Blanchett and Almodóvar on a free Palestine, Bruce Dern on a storied life
Cannes likes its guests to remain tight-lipped on political issues. Try telling that to Pedro Almodóvar. And everyone else
Cannes First Look review: Tin Castle paints a touching, confounding portrait of an Irish Traveller family
Alexander Murphy’s documentary about Pa’ and Lisa O’Reilly and their 10 children has a sense that we’re drifting towards an inevitable closure
Cannes First Look review: Jim Queen – This gay-influencer animated comedy is gleefully smutty
Fashioned in the anarchic style of Rick and Morty, the film’s takedown of cliches keeps Cannes laughing
Cannes First Look review: Hope – Na Hong-jin’s sci-fi horror has an astonishing opening hour
Michael Fassbender plays a distractingly artificial CGI alien. It’s fun. But make the fun stop
Cannes First Look review: The Unknown – Léa Seydoux stars in Arthur Harari’s body-swap horror
Gendered prudishness that governs 13 Going on 30 gives way to unsettling self-examination and an intriguing gumshoe plot
Cannes 2026: Cate Blanchett, John Travolta, Eric Cantona and six more talked about moments
Adam Driver responds to Lena Dunham’s explosive allegations and Michael Fassbender returns to acting as a day job
Tarik Saleh: ‘A country with a lot of power and money wanted me to do a propaganda series’
Eagles of the Republic director Tarik Saleh on his political satire that pokes fun at Egypt’s president
Cannes 2026: Why almost nowhere else is as good at generating ear-bursting controversy
From the Paris protests of 1968 to Lars von Trier’s Hitler gag in 2011: here, if nowhere else, cinema still matters
Cannes First Look review: Fatherland – Five stars for Pawlikowski’s icy draught of a film
Hanns Zischler and Sandra Hüller play Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika in a feature that completes a remarkable trilogy
Cannes First Look review: The Match – Maradona, Lineker and the ‘hand of God’ goal
This film about England’s quarter-final against Argentina at the 1986 World Cup is immaculately balanced
Cannes First Look review: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is a film-making triumph
Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson star in Jane Schoenbrun’s Sunset Boulevard of slasher films
Barry Keoghan on his directing ambitions: ‘I don’t think people would understand what I’m saying’
Cannes film festival 2026: The Cailín Ciúin team returns, panic at the Marriott, and The Fast and the Furious at 25
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo review: Sexual desire becomes contagion and curse in haunting debut
Writer-director doesn’t name the infection, but leaves little doubt that the spectre spooking the Chilean desert is the Aids crisis
The Cannes Movie Quiz: Which Irish actor is on this year’s jury?
Plus: What won last year’s Palme d’Or?
First Look review: Barry Keoghan gives a tense, psychologically uneasy performance in Butterfly Jam
Cannes 2026: Irish actor stars with Riley Keough in Kantemir Balagov’s singular family drama
Cannes First Look review: The Electric Kiss – Pierre Salvadori’s lovely film has fun untying a romantic knot
Cannes film festival 2026: Anaïs Demoustier plays a sideshow swindler in a complex story that’s been made to fizzle
Cannes 2026: Glamour, sheer excruciation and the vanishing Irish-shot film Bucking Fastard
The festival opened with a very French, very odd ceremony featuring Jane Fonda, Peter Jackson and bad impersonations of Robert De Niro and Julia Roberts
‘My father thought my grandfather died in the Holocaust. It was all a lie’
Director László Nemes’s traumatic family history has informed his twisty drama set in Budapest after the second World War
Cannes 2026: Which Irish stars will be there and what will win the Palme D’Or?
Distinguished line-up of auteurs grace festival as documentary on Traveller family flies green flag
Chris O’Dowd and Jane Fonda to play Niall O’Dowd and Jean Kennedy Smith in peace process drama
Ciarán Hinds and John C Reilly also to star in Ceasefire, from In the Name of the Father writer Terry George
Cannes 2026: Barry Keoghan, Daryl McCormack and Lola Petticrew films win prestige slots
Butterfly Jam and I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning to screen in Directors’ Fortnight. Alexander Murphy’s Tin Castle announced for Critics’ Week
Cannes 2026: John Travolta and Barbra Streisand set to walk red carpet as film festival announces official selection
Could Irish stars Anthony Boyle, Daryl McCormack and Lola Petticrew feature in Directors Fortnight?
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