A Japanese woman who has spent her whole life going unnoticed learns, slowly and painfully, what it means to be seen. Un Certain Regard
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‘All the Lovers in the Night’ Cannes Review: A Woman Nobody Sees
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‘The Station’ Cannes Review: Survival and Struggle in Yemen’s Civil War
A Yemeni woman runs a women-only gas station amid civil war, fighting to protect her young brother from conscription as violence closes in. In Critics’ Week.
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‘Paper Tiger’ Cannes Review: James Gray Delivers a Modern American Classic
When an honest engineer accidentally witnesses a mob operation, his brother’s connections prove no match for the chaos that follows. Starring Miles Teller, Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson. In Competition.
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‘Sheep in the Box’ Cannes Review: Kore-eda Enters the Uncanny Valley
When a company offers grieving parents a humanoid copy of their lost child, the line between memory and imitation slowly dissolves. In Competition.
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‘La libertad doble’ Cannes Review: Lisandro Alonso’s Quiet Cinema Confronts a Country Falling Apart
When a man is forced to care for his mentally ill sister in a world without institutional support, their uneasy bond becomes a meditation on family and freedom.
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‘Forever Your Maternal Animal’ Cannes Review: Valentina Maurel’s Family Portrait of Sisterhood and Chaos
A young woman returns home after years abroad, only to be pulled into the unstable orbit of her dysfunctional family—where her bond with her paranoid, unpredictable sister threatens to spiral into something both intimate and dangerous.
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‘Flesh and Fuel’ Cannes Review: A Queer Love Story on the Open Road
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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‘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.


