Étienne is a truck driver. Tethered to the road, his love life is limited to fleeting, anonymous encounters in parking lots. When he meets Bartosz, a Polish driver, everything changes.
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‘Flesh and Fuel’ Cannes Review: A Queer Love Story on the Open Road
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‘A Girl’s Story’ Cannes Review: Annie Ernaux’s Painful Memory Reimagined on Screen
The writer revisits her teenage self, reexamining a formative sexual experience that memory and time transform into a story of power, shame, and awakening. Un Certain Regard.
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‘Shana’ Cannes Review: A Volatile Antiheroine in Freefall
In the margins of a multicultural Paris, a sharp-tongued woman fights to survive a cascade of personal crises without losing herself completely.
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‘Diary of a Chambermaid’ Cannes Review: Radu Jude Updates a Classic, Mercilessly
A Romanian maid in Bordeaux keeps a diary of cancelled holidays and daily indignities, courtesy of the progressive Parisian couple who employ her.
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‘Gentle Monster’ Cannes Review: The Man You Thought You Knew
A celebrated musician moves her family to the countryside for a fresh start — and watches her husband’s life, and her own, collapse when the police come knocking. Starring Léa Seydoux and Laurence Rupp. Competition.
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‘John Lennon: The Last Interview’ Cannes Review: Soderbergh Captures an Irreplaceable Voice
This documentary visualizes the final radio interview John Lennon and Yoko Ono gave to a radio station just hours before the musician’s murder.
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‘All of a Sudden’ Cannes Review: The Radical Act of Paying Attention
A doctor’s push for humane care sparks resistance and unexpected bonds, as Hamaguchi explores suffering, capitalism, and the fragile promise of empathy over three sprawling hours. In Competition.
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‘The Meltdown’ Cannes Review: Martelli’s Chilling, Snow-Bound Mystery
At a Chilean ski resort in 1992, a nine-year-old girl becomes the unlikely key witness in the disappearance of her teenage German friend — and begins to understand the silence that surrounds her. Un Certain Regard.
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‘Parallel Tales’ Cannes Review: Farhadi’s Overwrought Meta-Drama Collapses Under Its Own Design
A writer, a telescope, and imagined betrayals collide as Farhadi stretches a clever premise into a sprawling, exhausting meditation on fiction, truth, and illusion. Starring Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira and Vincent Cassel. Competition.
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‘Words of Love’ Cannes Review: Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
Abandoned by her father before she could know him, a girl spends her childhood chasing a man who has chosen, deliberately, not to be found. Un Certain Regard.



