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“I’ve never been to Cannes,” Dakota Johnson says. “Right? Anyone? Okay, then I’ve never been here.”

Meanwhile, Focus’ The Phoenecian Scheme, the latest work of whimsy from Wes Anderson, is dryly amusing and features his usual mindblowing production design. But it doesn’t possess the broad appeal of 2014’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, which was his only narrative feature that ever registered Oscar nominations beyond the writing and crafts categories.

Julia Ducournau, who won the Palme d’Or for “Titane,” returns with the body-horror tale “Alpha.” The critical reception has not been kind.

A textbook example of the difficult follow-up album — or feature film, in this instance — Catalan filmmaker Carla Simón ’s Romería strains under the weight of her last film Alcarras, which won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale in 2022,

Distributors in a dozen international territories have picked up horror icon' Eli Roth's upcoming thriller 'Ice Cream Man,' sold by WME Independent.

If this is how Elle Fanning is kicking off the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, we have no doubt she’s got a roster of grade-A looks to come.

Wes Anderson and Richard Linklater are making waves at Cannes, not just with their films, but with their reactions to President Trump's movie tariff.