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Illustration by Franz Lang.Throughout the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, stay tuned for interviews, dispatches, and capsules—plus, the return of our beloved, pot-stirring critics’ ballots. Don’t miss a thing: subscribe to the Weekly Edit newsletter.Dispatches“National Security Threats” by Leonardo GoiFrom Sirât to Sound of Falling, some of the best titles this year exist in conversation with unexpected voices.“Cruise Control” by Daniel KasmanHigh concepts can’t make up for a lack of depth in Mission: Impossible, Highest 2 Lowest, Eddington, and more.“Power to the People” by Leonardo GoiJafar Panahi’s Palme d’Or–winning It Was Just an Accident was one of several titles that oozed an acrid fury at the state of our world.Capsules“One Moment” by Vadim Rizov, Beatrice Loayza, Inney Prakash, Mark Asch, Nicolas Rapold, Leonardo Goi, Daniella Shreir, Elena Lazic, and Daniel KasmanIn which the festival is distilled to bite-sized morsels.

Warning: This article will discuss a film about sexual abuse and incest.

Filmmaker Ari Aster exploded into the world of cinema with the release of "Hereditary" in 2018. That film was structured around a demonic cult and the magical glyphs they used to conduct ritual sacrifices, but moreso, it was about intergenerational guilt, barely suppressed rage, and the dissolution of the family unit. Toni Collette gives a career-best performance as a woman who kind of hated her own mother, and who has no small amount of depressed resentment toward her own family.

Aster followed that with "Midsommar," another film about cult sacrifices, this time complimented by the murder/suicide of the protagonist's family. Like "Hereditary," "Midsommar" was deeply beloved by the horror community, and is often held up as an example of the A24 house style. Florence Pugh also gives an astonishing performance as a grieving young woman whose awful boyfriend hates her.

The Fantastic Four: First Steps director Matt Shakman has revealed what makes star Pedro Pascal so well-suited to play Reed Richards, aka Mister Fantastic. As soon as it was confirmed that the Fantastic Four were finally coming to the MCU in 2019, it was nearly five straight years of fan-casting and rumors about who would play the stretchy superhero. Names like Adam Driver, Dev Patel, and David Tennant seemed to get thrown around. In the end, the part went to The Mandalorian and The Last of Us star Pedro Pascal.

Speaking with Empire Magazine, Shakman explained his decision to cast Pedro Pascal as a leader of the Fantastic Four. While many actors might have fit the more bookish man of science aspect that fans associate with Reed Richards, it appears it was Pascal's ability to tap into many different aspects of the character. Like in the comics, Reed won't...

“I truly don’t understand when the word ‘safe’ became positive in cinema and the word ‘dangerous’ became negative,” Nadav Lapid told IndieWire about his bold new film “Yes” at Cannes.

The most volatile, potentially conversation-stirring movie of the festival was one most attendees probably didn’t see. Not “Eddington,” not “Die, My Love,” but a late-breaker in the lineup whose director rushed to finish it before any red carpets rolled out on the Croisette.

Israeli filmmaker Lapid has been in the Cannes competition before, with 2021’s Jury Prize winner “Ahed’s Knee,” which centers on a director facing artistic censorship over his latest movie about a Palestinian activist. But there was no competition bow this year for Lapid’s in-your-face musical satire about a pair of Israeli artists who sign their souls over to a Russian oligarch to craft a post-October 7 nationalist anthem in support of their state. Instead, “Yes...

By the end of this year’s Cannes Film Festival — well, technically, up until this Memorial Day when Netflix announced the streamer snapped up Richard Linklater’s “Nouvelle Vague” — 13 of the 22 films in competition had walked away with a stateside home.

That’s impressive, but there are still many more gems waiting out throughout the Official Selection, including even Harris Dickinson’s IndieWire-adored directorial debut “Urchin”. Kristen Stewart’s acclaimed Imogen Poots vehicle “The Chronology of Water,” one of three actor-turned-director efforts in Un Certain Regard along with Dickinson and Scarlett Johansson, doesn’t have a home yet, either. She’ll get there.

Surveying the Main Competition, either films like “Eddington” (A24) or “The Phoenician Scheme” (Focus Features) or “Sentimental Value” (Neon) came to the festival with deals in place, or a handful for stateside berth were brokered on the ground. Mubi took the buzziest buy of the festival...

The 2025 Cannes Film Festival is a wrap, with a slew of new movies that will now set the stage and tone for the movie year ahead. And that includes the Oscar season ahead, especially as the French film festival has now become the destination for where the Oscar race starts

Neon acquired three films during the festival, all of which are on IndieWire’s top 15 films of the 78th Cannes: Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident,” Oliver Laxe’s “Sîrat,” and Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “The Secret Agent,” all of which won main prizes as the Cannes awards on Saturday, May 24. Neon already had North American dibs on Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value,” which won the Grand Jury Prize. Mubi, meanwhile, represents many of the same projects abroad and will bring Lynne Ramsay’s “Die My Love” to North America as well as Mascha Schilinski’s Jury Prize winner “Sound of Falling,...

Ari Aster is one of a promising crop of newer directors that got famous through A24. A couple of years after Robert Eggers made his first A24 film with The Witch, the distributor introduced another new director to the world with Aster's Hereditary in 2018. This movie shocked and intrigued audiences, getting strong reviews and ticket sales. Hereditary made $87.8 million at the worldwide box office, which was impressive given its $10 million budget. It is still among A24's top 5 highest-grossing films, and one of the more talked-about modern horror films.

Just one year after Hereditary, Aster released Midsommar. Also falling into the horror genre, this movie was also subject to massive hype and generated discourse, though it did not do quite as well at the box office. Curiously, though, Aster went in a very different direction after Midsommar, helming the trippy, 3-hour psychological dark comedy Beau is Afraid. A box office bomb,...

Thierry Frémaux, the Delegate Général of the Cannes Film Festival, is propping up the Majestic Beach’s main bar. The joint’s buzzing, the victors being lionized after what has been acknowledged as a strong competition and selection, and I have the temerity to wonder idly when he’ll retire.

“I don’t know,” he murmurs. “You know, in France the social contract is something different.”

“Even if I’m fired, I stay,” he finishes defiantly.

He laughs, then turns the tables and cheekily asks when I will retire.

“I don’t want you to retire,” he says caressing my arm. ”Stay with us.”

Fremaux first visited Cannes in 1979, driving from Lyon in a truck. Every day that year he remained on the Croisette without watching any movies “because I couldn’t attend any film. Each evening I used to go back to the highway and sleep in the car in the gas station.

Neon CEO Tom Quinn took no chances this year en route to winning the company’s sixth Cannes Palme d’Or in a row, for Iranian dissident Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident.” He acquired the film just two days before Saturday’s award ceremony. Neon also collected the festival Jury Prize for “Sirât” (shared with Mubi’s recent buy “Sound of Falling”), and two awards for Brazil’s “The Secret Agent” — Best Director (Kleber Mendonça Filho) and Actor (Wagner Moura ).

Neon came out ahead on the acquisitions derby, as Mubi’s starry $23-million pick-up “Die My Love,” from Scottish/British filmmaker Lynne Ramsay, came up empty-handed. A Cannes Actress win for Jennifer Lawrence could have fueled an Oscar campaign, but that loss won’t stop Mubi from pursuing that goal. Similarly, although Oliver Hermanus’ muted American drama “History of Sound” won nothing, Focus may still pursue acting...

The 78th Cannes Film Festival takes place May 13-24, 2025, with Oscar-winning actress Juliette Binoche presiding over the main competition's jury. Held on the stunning French Riviera, this annual event culminates in the prestigious Palme d'Or prize, given to a director for their feature film, which officially kicks off the year's awards cycle. To date, four winners of the Palme d'Or have gone on to win the Oscar for Best Picture: The Lost Weekend (1945), Marty (1955), Parasite (2019), and Anora (2024).

A highlight of this year's Cannes opening ceremony was Leonardo DiCaprio's presentation of the Honorary Palme d'Or to Robert De Niro, DiCaprio's costar in films like Killers of the Flower Moon and This Boy's Life. De Niro follows in the footsteps of such recent recipients as Meryl Streep, George Lucas, Michael Douglas, Harrison Ford, and Tom Cruise. Denzel Washington also received a surprise Honorary Palme d'Or on May 19.

U.S. films that...

The 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival concludes today with the Closing Ceremony and presentation of the coveted award, the Palme d’Or, which was awarded to Jafar Panahi for the film It Was Just an Accident.

The Jury, chaired by director Juliette Binoche, was tasked with awarding the Palme d’Or to one of the 21 films in the Competition. The jury included Halle Berry, Payal Kapadia, Alba Rohrwacher, Leïla Slimani, Dieudo Hamadi, Hong Sangsoo, Carlos Reygadas and Jeremy Strong.

Related: Cannes Film Festival 2025: Read All Of Deadline’s Movie Reviews

The Croisette has been a buzz so far with glamorous parties and red carpet fashion statements. Director Amélie Bonnin’s debut feature, Partir Un Jour, opened the festival with other highlight premieres from this year’s slate including Paul Mescal in The History of Sound; Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest; A Private Life starring Jody Foster...

The awards from the 2025 Cannes Film Festival have now been presented. Every year, the prestigious French film festival honors new movies with a variety of awards celebrating the best director, actor, actress, and screenplay, in addition to the Jury Prize, the Grand Prize, and the coveted Palme d'Or. Recent Palme d'Or winners include Sean Baker's Anora, which went on to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards, Bong Joon Ho's fellow Best Picture winner Parasite, and the Oscar-nominated European films Triangle of Sadness and Anatomy of a Fall.

ScreenRant was in attendance at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, which ran from May 13 through May 24 and featured screenings of a number of films that were in competition for the biggest awards, including Wes Anderson's The Phoenician Scheme, Ari Aster's Eddington, Lynne Ramsay's Die My Love, and Julia Ducournau's Alpha. The awards have now been presented at the closing ceremony.

Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s triumphant return to the Cannes Film Festival, “It Was Just an Accident,” has won the Palme d’Or as the best film in competition at the festival, the Cannes jury announced on Saturday evening.

Panahi, who spent almost 20 years in prison or under house arrest in Iran for making anti-government films, was allowed to leave the country and go to the festival for the first time in more than two decades with the film, which deals with victims of oppression who abduct a man they believe was their torturer in prison.

“The bracing thing about ‘It Was Just an Accident’ is that it has married Panahi’s wit and humanism with real anger,” said TheWrap’s review.“… In a festival full of fury, this is one of the films that hits hardest and resonates longest.”

The review also suggested that the film, which premiered on Tuesday,...

Bringing a turbulent world together through cinema, the 78th Cannes Film Festival closed with its most political moment, as Iranian director Jafar Panahi accepted the Palme d’Or for “It Was Just an Accident,” a film directly inspired by his time in prison.

Filled with equal helpings of absurdist humor and ire, Panahi’s film follows five characters who think they’ve identified the prosecutor who tortured them during their own arrests — but as they were all blindfolded in jail, none can be entirely certain their captive is the same man.

Since Panahi’s first arrest and conviction for “propaganda against the regime” in 2010, the director has continued to make films, even when expressly forbidden from doing so. In 2011, he sent a flash drive to Cannes with his movie, “This Is Not a Film,” and has remained a vocal defender of other directors whose work the government seeks to suppress.

As the lights go up on the last of the 22 films in Competition this year, Deadline’s critics reflect on the potential winners in what must be the strongest lineup in recent years…

Pete Hammond

I don’t think I’ve seen a Cannes Film Festival with so many enthusiastic reviews from the press. Only a handful of films seemed to get totally negative notices and none of them across the board. I walked out on a couple, including Resurrection, the Chinese film. Life is just too short. I also didn’t make it through Sebastian Lelio’s The Wave, or the Italian women’s prison flick Fuori despite liking Italians and its star Valeria Golino. I just wasn’t feeling it.

Otherwise, I have to say everything else I saw was above average but some of it overpraised in other quarters. Calm down! I mean, The Secret Agent was good,...

At IndieWire’s annual “Screen Talk” live podcast at the American Pavilion in Cannes, Neon CEO Tom Quinn returned to share his Oscar whisperer secrets after his victory lap on “Anora,” which won the Palme d’Or last year followed by five Oscars including Best Picture, Director, Actress, Editing, and Original Screenplay. Quinn is the talk of Cannes because, as anticipated, the movie he acquired at last year’s festival, Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value,” starring Stellan Skarsgård and Renate Reinsve, is the frontrunner for the Palme.

While Quinn talked about the four films he brought to the festival (listen below), after our podcast, he acquired three Competition titles: Jafar Panahi’s family drama “It Was Just an Accident,” Brazil’s popular entry “The Secret Agent,” from Kleber Mendonça Filho, and Oliver Laxe’s tragic French-Spanish production “Sirât,” which polarized many Cannes watchers. Even if these four Neon titles don...

A24 is shutting down its documentary filmmaking department with five people departing from that division, Variety has confirmed.

Headed by Nicole Stott, the division has produced recent docs including “Look Into My Eyes,” “The Last of the Sea Women,” “The Sixth” and Morgan Neville’s Steve Martin documentary “Steve!”

Stott and Emily Osborne, head of documentary production, will remain at A24 long enough to complete work on ongoing projects.

Non-fiction projects that are already finished or in production, such as “André Is an Idiot” and “Architecton” will continue to be handled by A24. The same goes for other projects still in production such as the Philippou brothers’ wrestling doc “Deathmatch” and “The Yogurt Shop Murders.”

The company is not ruling out working with filmmakers on further documentary projects, but the market has become too challenging to support an entire division, sources indicated.

A documentary filmmaker who did want to be...

With the final weekend of the 78th Cannes Film Festival in sight, it’s time to project who gets the biggest launching pad for the upcoming Oscar season by walking away with the coveted Palme d’Or.

Based on critical reception, audience ovations, and speaking with several sources on the ground and close to the jury members, a handful of films have clearly separated themselves from the pack — none more so than “Sentimental Value,” Joachim Trier’s incisive father-daughter drama that’s become the buzziest title on the Croisette.

Distributed by Neon, which is aiming for an unprecedented sixth consecutive Palme win — after “Parasite,” “Titane,” “Triangle of Sadness,” “Anatomy of a Fall” and “Anora” — “Sentimental Value” received the most enthusiastic standing ovation of the festival. Trier, a Cannes veteran whose “The Worst Person in the World” nabbed Best Actress in 2021, seems poised for a coronation.

However, could it be that easy?...

See all the best red carpet looks from the Cannes Film Festival, which is expected to welcome stars including Tom Cruise, Scarlett Johansson, Kristen Stewart and Robert De Niro. The jury is headed by Juliette Binoche, with members including Halle Berry, Jeremy Strong, Alba Rohrwacher, Payal Kapadia, Leïla Slimani, Dieudo Hamadi, Hong Sangsoo, and Carlos Reygadas.

The opening night film was “Partir un Jour” (Leave One Day), while Robert De Niro received his honorary Palme d’Or from Leonardo DiCaprio before the screening. On Wednesday, stars climbed the Palais steps for the “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” red carpet. On Friday, stars including Pedro Pascal, Austin Butler and Emma Stone hit the red carpet for the screening of Ari Aster’s Western “Eddington.” Saturday’s premieres included Lynne Ramsay’s “Die, My Love,” with Robert Pattinson and Jennifer Lawrence among those walking the red carpet.

Stars walking the carpet...

The stars are stepping out for Louis Vuitton‘s latest fashion show!

Emma Stone, Saoirse Ronan, and Sophie Turner posed for photos as they arrived at the Louis Vuitton Cruise 2026 Show on Thursday (May 22) held at Palais Des Papes in Avignon, France.

Other stars in attendance included Oscar winners Cate Blanchett, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, and Alicia Vikander.

A few days earlier, Emma was at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival promoting her new movie Eddington with co-stars Pedro Pascal, Joaquin Phoenix, and Austin Butler. The movie hits theaters on July 18. Watch the trailer here!

Following the Louis Vuitton fashion show, we compiled photos of the stars in attendance so that you can see what everyone wore!

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Illustration by Franz Lang.The last time a Tom Cruise blockbuster premiered in Cannes, the year was 2022, and among the 21 Palme d’Or hopefuls was Albert Serra’s Pacifiction, the kind of work that, in my book at least, exemplifies the electrifying cinema the festival’s Official Competition was designed to showcase. I’ve been chasing an equivalent high at all the editions I attended since, with very mixed results. This year, the festival’s top program promises another cinematic cornucopia, but the menu feels almost conspicuously familiar. A good number of the titles announced so far were directed by Cannes regulars and/or Official Competition habitués; even the few exceptions, like Ari Aster’s Eddington, aren’t exactly debut features. And yet, naïve as this will sound, I like to think that the tidal forces that keep pulling us back to this overpriced stretch of the French Riviera have...

Screen International is compiling some of the best photos from this year’s Cannes Film Festival, which runs May 13-24.

The History of Sound - Wednesday May 21

It Was Just An Accident - Tuesday May 20

Alpha - Monday May 19

Highest 2 Lowest - Monday May 19

The Phoenician Scheme - Sunday May 18

The Secret Agent - Sunday May 18

Die, My Love premire - Saturday May 17

Nouvelle Vague premiere -Saturday May 17

Eddington premiere - Friday May 16

Case 137 premiere - Thursday May 15

Sirat premiere - Thursday May 15

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning premiere - WednesdayMay 14

Sound Of Falling premiere - Wednesday May 14

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The 77th Cannes Film Festival continues on Day 9 with two world premieres: Oliver Hermanus’s The History of Sound, starring Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor, and director Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, which reunites him with The Worst Person in the World actress Renate Reinsve.

Guests at the premiere for The History of Sound included Teri Hatcher, Taraji P. Henson, Aja Naomi King, John C. Reilly, Julian Assange, Michelle Rodriguez, Edward Enninful, Naomi Campbell, Jenny Slate

Related: ‘Eddington’ Cannes Film Festival Premiere Photos: Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, Austin Butler & More

Mescal stars as Lionel, a gifted singer from rural Kentucky, who leaves his family farm in 1917 to attend the Boston Music Conservatory. There, he meets David (O’Connor), a charming music student soon drafted into the war. In 1920, the two spend the winter in Maine, passionately collecting folk songs. As Lionel builds a successful life in Europe, he...

Austin Butler is on the run in the first trailer for Darren Aronofsky's 90s-set New York crime-thriller Caught Stealing, but the only thing the actor may be guilty of is stealing scenes, as he takes a leading role as former baseball player Henry "Hank" Thompson in the upcoming caper. The star-studded ensemble also features Zoë Kravitz, Regina King, Liev Schreiber, Vincent D'Onofrio, and an unrecognizable former Doctor Who actor. Butler will seemingly need all the help he can get from this crowd, but not everyone will be on his team.

The newly-released Caught Stealing trailer is aptly set to the iconic riffs of The Clash's punk rock classic Should I Stay or Should I Go, as, for much of the time, Butler's character doesn't look like he knows whether he's coming or going. That's because he unexpectedly finds himself embroiled in a criminal enterprise after accepting an innocent...

Austin Butler and Zoë Kravitz find themselves sliding toward trouble in the trailer for the crime movie Caught Stealing.

Sony Pictures is set to release Darren Aronofsky’s thriller feature in theaters Aug. 29. Matt Smith, Liev Schreiber, Bad Bunny, D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai, Griffin Dunne, Carol Kane, Regina King and Vincent D’Onofrio round out the cast.

Caught Stealing stars Butler as Hank Thompson, a down-on-his-luck former baseball player who is suddenly immersed in the New York City crime underworld in the late 1990s.

Aronofsky helmed the film from a script by Charlie Huston, who wrote the books on which the movie is based. Caught Stealing hails from Protozoa and counts Aronofsky, Jeremy Dawson, Dylan Golden and Ari Handel as producers.

Butler’s recent projects include the features Dune: Part Two and The Bikeriders and the series Masters of the Air. He can soon be seen in Ari Aster’s Eddington, which screened...

Eddington was one of the many films to have its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, and fans have been curious for years to see just how Ari Aster’s new film stacks up to his most recent outing. Enough early reviews for Eddingtonhave come in that it’s been given a 66% score from critics on Rotten Tomatoes. This is more than double that of star Joaquin Phoenix’s last film, Joker: Folie à Deux, which landed at equally embarrassing scores of 31% from both critics and audiences on the aggregate site. In addition to Phoenix, Eddington also stars Pedro Pascal (The Last of Us), Luke Grimes (Yellowstone), Emma Stone (Poor Things), and Austin Butler (Dune: Part Two). The film is coming to theaters on July 18.

Eddington is set in May 2020, and it follows a standoff between a small-town sheriff and the mayor of Eddington, New Mexico, that sparks a conflict...

The 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival continues on Day 8 with the world premieres of A Private Life, starring Jodie Foster, and Eleanor The Great, the directorial debut of Scarlett Johansson, starring June Squibb in the titular role as part of the Un Certain Regard lineup. Other premieres today include It Was Just an Accident, The Disappearance of Josef Mengele, and Fuori.

Related: ‘Eddington’ Cannes Film Festival Premiere Photos: Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, Austin Butler & More

Squibb brings to vivid life the witty and proudly troublesome 94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein, who, after a devastating loss, tells a tale that takes on a dangerous life of its own. Johansson’s directorial debut is a comically poignant exploration of how the stories we hear become the stories we tell. The cast also includes Erin Kellyman, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jessica Hecht and Rita Zohar.

The film A Private Life, starring Jodie Foster as Lilian Steiner,...

It was moving to watch Denzel Washington lope up to the Lumière stage at Cannes and tear up as he accepted his Honorary Palme d’Or from Cannes veteran Spike Lee Monday night at the “Highest 2 Lowest” premiere. It was a surprise to the actor, as he watched a clip reel that ranged from his four prior roles with Lee to “Philadelphia,” “Flight,” “The Book of Eli,” “The Hurricane,” “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” “Fences,” and more.

Festival director Thierry Frémaux knows how to make the most of a Hollywood movie star, who flew into France and out again on his one day off from doing eight sold-out shows a week as Shakespeare’s “Othello” on Broadway. If the man looked weary, it’s understandable. At 70, he’s at the peak of his powers, and if the Oscar gods are smiling, he’ll land his third Oscar (after “Training Day” and...

It was a typical scene in Cannes. On May 16, about 50 people converged on billionaire Len Blavatnik’s luxury liner dubbed Odessa II to celebrate his three films premiering at the festival including the provocative Joaquin Phoenix drama “Eddington.” The guest list included industry heavy hitters like “Pulp Fiction” producer Lawrence Bender and Access Entertainment president Danny Cohen. As revelers sipped rosé and sampled the luncheon buffet, singer-actress Charlotte MacInnes performed a cover of Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club.”

Within hours, Rebel Wilson began posting from the official Instagram account of her upcoming film “The Deb.” “Charlotte MacInnes in a culturally inappropriate Indian outfit on Len Blavatnik’s luxury yacht in Cannes — ironically singing a song from a movie that will never get released because of her lies and support for the people blocking the film’s release,” Wilson wrote. “So glad you got your record deal Charlotte at the...

by Cláudio Alves

I don't know about you, but I can't contain my excitement for SIRÂT.

After Schilinski and Loznitsa had the honor of opening this year's Official Competition at Cannes, the next few days at the fest have seen many another auteur take their bow. Reviews vary wildly, but it seems that Oliver Laxe's Sirât is a winner, while Dominik Moll's Dossier 137 has inspired some of the least enthusiastic reviews coming out of the Croisette. Hafsia Herzi's The Little Sister didn't make much of a splash either, though critics have been kinder to the second French production vying for the Palme d'Or. Finally, nobody's indifferent to Ari Aster's Eddington, a polarizing Cannes premiere if there ever was one. But that's business as usual for the American director, whose works have caused extreme reactions of adoration and revilement ever since Hereditary hit theaters in 2018.

For Cannes at Home,...

The 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival continues on Day 7 with the world premiere of Spike Lee’s Highest to Lowest, starring Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, and A$AP Rocky; Michael Angelo Covino’s Splitsville starring Kyle Marvin, Adria Arjona, Dakota Johnson, and Alpha from director Julia Ducournau.

Guests who attended the premieres included Rihanna, Luke Wilson, Edward Norton, Jason Momoa, Wes Anderson, and many more.

Highest to Lowest follows a titan of the music industry (Washington), a man whose legendary hearing has earned him the moniker “the best ears in the business,” as he becomes the target of a high-stakes ransom plot. This perilous situation forces him into a life-or-death moral quandary.

Marking the fifth collaboration between Washington and Lee, the film reimagines Akira Kurosawa’s gripping crime thriller High and Low, transplanting its tense narrative to the gritty reality of contemporary New York City.

Related: ‘Eddington...

What happens when a small town is pushed to its breaking point? Visionary director Ari Aster’s latest movie, Eddington, will answer that question. The upcoming project is said to explore that very question, and given the star-studded cast and amazing premise, it’s already turning heads.

Known for his brilliant work in Hereditary and Midsommar, Aster is now returning with an entirely new concept: a contemporary Western that will blend deep emotions, societal tension, and obviously powerful storytelling. Eddington also recently premiered at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, and while the glamour at the event was an all-time high, the movie also gained a lot of praise.

Featuring the likes of Pedro Pascal and Joaquin Phoenix, to name a few, the movie is already promising a thought-provoking drama. However, the movie isn’t just about the chaos – it’s also about the people caught in it. So, what’s...

by Elisa Giudici

In Eddington, Ari Aster brings his signature excesses and flaws, yet, as always, these are interwoven with genuine strokes of genius, his remarkable visual talent, and a flair for the audacious. Eddington is set to be divisive, much like his previous film Beau is Afraid, though it's arguably more focused and sharp, albeit still far from perfect.

The very fabric of Eddington makes it incendiary, divisive, and ultimately, a tough nut to crack. Set in the fictional New Mexico town of its title, it's an uneven but admirable attempt to take a genre deeply rooted in the past -- the Watern -- and use its tropes and language to narrate our present. Naturally then we get the classic standoff as well as  reaking shop sign swinging in a desert landscape. The shop is actually a gun store, from which the protagonist will emerge armed with both an automatic rifle and a smartphone.

For the first six days of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, the festival and its filmmakers kept making the same point: “Damn, the world is a mess.” And yet, in an example of gloriously mixed messages, it also took a couple of massive opportunities to add, “but aren’t movies fun?”

So far, Cannes ’25 has made for cultural whiplash of the best kind. The festival presented a string of films that delved into the darkness that surrounds us these days, from Gaza to Ukraine to Donald Trump’s administration, but it also embraced the sheer escapism of Hollywood cinema and the artistic trailblazing of the French New Wave. This year’s Cannes contains all of those things — and even in a uncertain year with the heart of the Palme d’Or race yet to be unveiled, the messages coming out of the Palais are all the better for being so contradictory.

Being unhoused is often associated with the idea of roughness: rough sleeping, having it rough, going through a rough patch. Yet, Frank Dillane’s Mike embodies a contrasting elegance. His delicate limbs tuck tightly against a slender frame when night comes, his contained body quietly lying atop a makeshift bed wrangled with flat cardboard boxes and a thin layer of fabric. This beautiful, angular man is the central character in Harris Dickinson’s feature debut “Urchin,” which takes its name from a largely retired term assigned to mostly unhoused, poor young children dressed in dirty rags.

Read More: Cannes 2025 Most Anticipated Films: ‘Sentimental Value,’ ‘Eddington,’ ‘Die My Love’

From Sherlock Holmes to Oliver Twist, urchins have long populated British storytelling, and Dickinson’s contribution to the trope first finds Mike waking up to the loud words of a street preacher, singing the praises of a God he knows not to be all that merciful.

Wes Anderson has yet again entertained Cannes.

This time, the auteur debuted his hotly-anticipated The Phoenician Scheme at the fest’s Lumière Theatre, arriving by bus — yes, bus — with stars Benicio del Toro, Mia Threapleton, Michael Cera and Riz Ahmed on Sunday night.

Anderson was also joined by Jeffrey Wright, Benedict Cumberbatch, Bill Murray, Rupert Friend, co-writer Roman Coppola and composer Alexandre Desplat on the Palais steps ahead of the premiere.

Receptions at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, in particular for the competition titles, have generally been a little tepid. Anderson was the recipient of a polite six-minute ovation. Mia Threapleton was in tears, hugging Michael Cera during the ovation. After the applause calmed down, Anderson took a brief moment to thank his cast.

Before the movie screened, Anderson and his cast were in good spirits as they took to the Palais steps, waving the weekend farewell on the Croisette.

The new psychological drama starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson has been well-received by critics. While Pattinson is perhaps best known for his franchise roles including Edward Cullen in the Twilight movies, Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and Bruce Wayne in The Batman, he has also starred in a variety of titles from auteur directors. This includes Robert Eggers' The Lighthouse, Christopher Nolan's Tenet, Bong Joon Ho's Mickey 17, David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars, and Claire Denis' High Life.

Jennifer Lawrence movies have taken Pattinson's co-star on a similar career trajectory. She has held two major long-running franchise roles, playing Katniss Everdeen in the Hunger Games movies and Mystique in the most recent branch of the X-Men franchise, prior to the characters joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe. However, she first rose to prominence off the back of her Oscar-nominated performance in 2010's Winter's Bone,...

Sealed with a kiss! Alexander Skarsgard felt the love during an electric seven-minute standing ovation for his Cannes film Pilion, and returned it two-fold with a warm embrace and by planting a wet one on the cheek of a smiling Pedro Pascal who was on his feet.

The directorial debut of Harry Lighton had its world premiere Sunday morning inside Salle Debussy, and the crowd — filled with guests like Eddington star Pascal, The Substance filmmaker Coralie Fargeat and Babygirl David Hinojosa — lapped up the sexy, Bdsm-themed dramedy. The Un Certain Regard selection centers on Colin, a shy London lad played by Harry Melling, who encounters the smoldering and charismatic leader of a motorcycle club named Ray, Skarsgard, on Christmas Eve at a local pub. After a steamy oral sex session in an alleyway, Ray takes Colin under his wing by making Colin his submissive as they get tangled up in...

We’re still a few days away from the Palme d’Or, the highest prize awarded each year by the Cannes Film Festival, but the annual French Riviera gathering was made all the more golden on Saturday night thanks to the Variety and Golden Globes Breakthrough Artists Party.

Continuing its tradition of teaming up at global film festivals, the 120-year-old publication and awards body hosted a slew of talent and creatives to mark another year of excellence with Bulova, luxury watchmaker and sponsor.

Paul Mescal, Micheal Ward, Diane Kruger, new Wes Anderson muse Mia Threapleton, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Zoey Deutch, Jeremy O. Harris, director Ari Aster and more turned up at the glamorous Lucia Beach off the Croisette to celebrate.

A gnocchi bar and endless flowing champagne greeted revelers hustling around the historic city from the night’s big premiere — Jennifer Lawrence’s “Die My Love” — and other soirees. Variety co-editor-in-chief...

Early reactions to Eddington are divisive, following the Cannes Film Festival premiere. The Western, directed by Ari Aster of Hereditary and Midsommar, explores a deadlock between a sheriff and mayor in New Mexico, spawned by Covid-19. Eddington will be released on July 18 and stars Joaquin Phoenix, who previously collaborated with Aster on Beau Is Afraid, as well as Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, Luke Grimes, Austin Butler, Deirdre O’Connell, and Michael Ward.

After premiering at Cannes, Eddington has received largely polarizing reactions, centered around numerous aspects, including the movie’s commentary and how Aster captured Covid-19. Check out some of the responses below:

Eddington isn’t just the definitive film about the pandemic, it may be the most unflinchingly accurate portrait yet of how deeply America has spiraled into paranoia, hysteria, and unapologetic selfishness. What begins as a damning political commentary morphs into a murder… pic.twitter.com/hfgaAswvsp— Matt Neglia...

Eight years after Cannes dipped its toes into VR waters with their presentation of Alejandro González Iñárritu‘s ultra-haptic empathy machine Carne y Arena (2017), the festival’s general delegate Thierry Frémaux continues to promote cinema’s expanding Xr toolbox. In addition to bringing back the festival’s Immersive Competition for a second year—from what I saw of the press tour held a few hours before the Opening Ceremony, it would be difficult to justify a third—Frémaux also, per an interview with Screen International, trained this year’s festival staff using an AI version of his own voice when he couldn’t be present to address them […]

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Eight years after Cannes dipped its toes into VR waters with their presentation of Alejandro González Iñárritu‘s ultra-haptic empathy machine Carne y Arena (2017), the festival’s general delegate Thierry Frémaux continues to promote cinema’s expanding Xr toolbox. In addition to bringing back the festival’s Immersive Competition for a second year—from what I saw of the press tour held a few hours before the Opening Ceremony, it would be difficult to justify a third—Frémaux also, per an interview with Screen International, trained this year’s festival staff using an AI version of his own voice when he couldn’t be present to address them […]

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There's no avoiding the current political discourse when discussing Ari Aster's latest, Eddington. The film, which stars Pedro Pascal, Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, and Austin Butler, takes place in America in 2020. It's a Western thriller by way of Covid mania and the subsequent fracturing of society — something that's still happening today. So it's no surprise that the matter came up during the film's press conference at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, currently underway in France. And, given his outspoken and passionate nature, it should surprise no one that Pascal knew exactly how to respond to the question and the moment, despite his fears.

"It's obviously very scary to participate in a movie that speaks to issues like this," the actor explained during a press conference. He went on to add that he felt it was "far too intimidating a question for me to address. I'm not informed enough." The actor,...

Pedro Pascal is not letting fear win.

The 50-year-old actor attended the 2025 Cannes Film Festival for his Western film Eddington this week. There, he was asked if he was anxious about returning to The United States after starring in a film with a strong political message amid President Donald Trump‘s immigration policies.

“Fear is the way that they win. Keep telling the stories, keep expressing yourself and keep fighting to be who you are. F–k the people that try to make you scared. Fight back. This is the perfect way to do so in telling stories. Don’t let them win,” Pedro responded during a press conference.

He also got candid about how his lived experience as an immigrant gives him an important perspective on the issue.

“Obviously, it’s very scary for an actor participating in a movie to sort of speak to issues like this. I...

In Eddington, Ari Aster’s latest doom spiral, the proposed building of a data center in nowhere New Mexico provides the catalyst for a long-overdue psychological breakdown. The man in question is Sheriff Joe Cross (Joaquin Phoenix), whose perceived list of ills includes a worryingly online mother-in-law (Deirdre O’Connell), a disinterested, catatonic wife (Emma Stone), a woke mayor (Pedro Pascal) with plans to build a state of the art data centre, and the familiar inconveniences of Covid-19. Should even reading that word cause discomfort, it’s nothing if not intended: since rewiring the horror genre with A24, Aster has been repositioning himself as cinema’s patron saint of debilitating anxiety. Hereditary is probably best-remembered for its brutal decapitation but, all these years later, one suspects the scariest thing for Aster was whether or not his protagonist, an artist with an imminent exhibition and a nervy benefactor, will make her deadline.

There's beauty in being able to pick up your phone and search for answers to your questions. Having such easy access to information can also be a scary thing though, because sometimes that 'at the moment' question leads to your algorithm being full of similar content.Emma Stone knows this all too well after her algorithm transformed into a "rabbit hole" of crazy things while filming Ari Aster's Eddington. The Western film just premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, although the early reviews are mixed. It will hit theaters on July 18, 2025, and Stone plays Joaquin Phoenix's character's wife, Louise, and to prepare for the role, she had to learn about conspiracy theories.

Her character in the film fell down a conspiracy rabbit hole after meeting Austin Butler's character. According to Variety, because she had to learn about conspiracy theories to play the part perfectly, some of that...

When writer/director Ari Aster stood up for the ovation after the Cannes premiere of his divisive 2020-set Western “Eddington”, he said, “I feel very privileged to be here. This is a dream come true. Thank you so much for having me. And, I don’t know, sorry?”

Indeed, festival attendees have been fiercely divided by his 145-minute portrait of a fictional New Mexico town wracked by Covid, BLM, Acab, you-name-it-2020-buzz-concept during the darkest season of American lives in recent memory. Joaquin Phoenix (Aster’s “Beau Is Afraid”) plays a conservative sheriff who decides to run against his Gavin Newsom-esque, pro-masks-and-testing adversary, Ted Garcia (Pedro Pascal), in the local mayoral election.

Meanwhile, at home, Phoenix’s character Joe Cross is in a quarantine bubble with his hysteria-addled wife Louise (Emma Stone) and her far-right conspiracy-obsessed mother Dawn (Deirdre O’Connell), the type for whom hydroxychloroquine was presumably a panacea.

Two of Ang Lee’s most disruptive films celebrate anniversaries this year; they may be five years apart, but the connective tissue between them is undeniable. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) was such an intense high-wire act, the grueling shoot in China left Lee barely able to stand and fully intending to give it all up. It was Lee’s father who made his son promise to try one more time, because retirement, he thought, would set a bad example for the filmmaker’s son. Lee’s father died in 2004, weeks after making his son promise to give it one more go, and Lee kept that promise with 2005’s Brokeback Mountain, an experience that made the filmmaker fall back in love with storytelling, fueling everything he has done since including Life of Pi, which brought him his second Oscar for directing.

When I meet Lee in his Manhattan offices, he is...

Pedro Pascal spoke out about the political climate under the second Trump administration and the current immigration policies during the Cannes press conference following the premiere of Eddington.

The Ari Aster film stars Pascal as a progressive New Mexico mayor battling Joaquin Phoenix’s small-town sheriff amid the Covid pandemic in May 2020. Eddington, which skewers the Maga movement by way of Phoenix’s character, takes place during the first Trump administration, was filmed during the Biden presidency, but will ultimately be released during the second Trump administration.

The same day...

Comments at Cannes come after US president’s social media posts against Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift

Pedro Pascal has sharply criticised Donald Trump’s attacks against artists, as the director of a conspiracy theory satire starring the actor said he feared the political messages of films could be weaponised by US border guards.

“Fuck the people that try to make you scared,” the Game of Thrones and The Last of Us actor said at a press conference at the Cannes film festival, promoting Ari Aster’s new film Eddington. “And fight back. And don’t let them win.”...