Everyone loves Jim Jarmusch’s ‘80s playlist but our correspondent remains unexcited by the PR for ‘Climax’

Despite a dispute with Netflix and films not being ready in time, the competition is one of the funkiest, least creaky in years

Despite the Night review: Philippe Grandrieux’s film takes us to pretentious parties and horrible porn shoots

The greatest spectacle of the summer puts all others to shame

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?

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

Film starring Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz selected for main competition

For nearly two decades, French actor Romain Duris has been charming audiences – and critics – in a wide variety of films, ranging from New French Extremism to ditzy romance. And he look set to do it again in new ‘retro’ romcom Populaire

Hollywood has been trying to get Brady Corbet onside for years, but he’s having none of it. “I was always passionate about movies, not about being in them,” says the star of Simon Killer

This potential prizewinner is replete with cruelties of varying hues

Onscreen he’s a force of nature but on a couch the French actor is a good deal more cuddly