Irish co-production ‘The Lobster’ wins Cannes Jury Prize
Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan’ wins Palme d’Or to gasps in the auditorium
Cannes 2015: who’ll bag the Palme d’Or?
It looks like a three-horse race led by Todd Haynes’s ‘Carol’, starring Cate Blanchett, and László Nemes’s ‘Son of Saul’. Could Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s stunningly beautiful ‘The Assassin’ sneak through to win?
Love: powerful atmospherics; far too much orgy-based sex in 3D | Cannes Review
Whereas 50 Shades of Grey didn’t offer much you could properly call sex, arch provocateur Gaspar Noé’s latest is very much the real banana
The Assassin: the work of an obsessive tinkerer | Cannes Review
Hou Hsiao-hsien latest is the best-looking film in Cannes this year, but its beauty is both a strength and occasional weakness
Dheepan: lacks the gravitas of Jacques Audiard’s best-loved works | Cannes Review
A contender in the main competition, ‘Dheepan’ nevertheless feels like a doodle compared to Audiard’s recent output
Green Room: hardcore punks battle neo-Nazi thugs - what’s not to like? | Cannes Review
Featuring fine performances and even finer brutality, Jeremy Saulnier’s gruesome battle of American sub-cultures is one of the best of the fest
Youth: flawed, lovely, odd | Cannes Review
Paolo Sorrentino’s latest star-studded affair is ravishingly beautiful but a little short on coherence
Mountains May Depart: Time shifts, culture clashes and a potentially award-winning performance | Cannes review
Jia Zhangke is one of the world’s top filmmakers and this is his most audacious work yet, but this mountain is not as solid as it first seems
Marguerite & Julien: unconvincing, mildly hilarious | Cannes Review
Quite how this ludicrous French incest romp found itself in the main competition at this year's festival is anyone’s guess
Sicario: the slick mayhem of secret drug wars | Cannes review
Emily Blunt and Benicio del Toro battle it out, while Denis Villeneuve shows his action chops ahead of his Blade Runner sequel
Cemetery of Splendour: Ancient forces make for a seductive and refreshing film | Cannes review
Although odder than squirrels in sombreros, this film is Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s most conventional yet and among his best work
Inside Out: a return to form for Pixar | Cannes review
This animated trip inside the mind is funny, sweet and wise enough to suggest that Pixar has got its groove back
The Measure of a Man: Vincent Lindon sets the acting bar | Cannes Review
Long takes and a matter-of-fact treatment add up to a quietly savage treatment of the capitalist machine
Louder Than Bombs: achingly tasteful, well acted, frustratingly bland | Cannes Review
Norwegian Joachim Trier’s latest features Isabelle Huppert, Gabriel Byrne, Jesse Eisenberg and very little else
Cornucopias of delight still in prospect at 68th Cannes Film Festival
The race for the 2015 Palme d’Or looks at this stage to be between ‘Son of Saul’ and ‘Carol’, two extraordinary pictures from two very different film-makers
Son of Saul: A work of high artifice from the heart of the Nazi killing machine | Cannes Review
Son of Saul is potentially the last ever Palme d’Or winner to be shot and projected with film: it would be quite the way to go
The Lobster: a spookily beautiful, treacle-black absurdist comedy | Cannes Review
Yorgos Lanthimos’s poisonously effective film may be about the tyranny of coupledom, or it may not...
Our Little Sister: Fish, football and family tragedies | Cannes Review
Hirokazu Kore-eda has made a quiet and lovely thing; a bit more plot and structure would not go amiss though
An: hard to love, impossible to dislike | Cannes Review
Naomi Kawase’s latest hammers home the metaphors, but its conviction and intelligence also shine through
Catherine Deneuve adds glamour to low-key Cannes Film Festival
Opening film obscure, but the 68th festival has much to offer, writes Donald Clarke in Cannes
From Fassbender's Macbeth to Farrell's Lobster: Donald Clarke's first picks for Cannes 2015
The Irish Times will be keeping a close eye on all the happenings up and down the Croisette at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Meanwhile, here are a few of the movies whetting our appetite
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