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'A Man Of His Time'

‘A Man Of His Time’ review: A superb Swann Arlaud powers Emmanuel Marre’s ambitious, overlong Vichy France drama

The Cannes Competition title follows real-life opportunist Henri Marre as he seeks to make a mark in 1940s France

'Red Rocks'

‘Red Rocks’ review: Bruno Dumont assembles a charming young cast for his beguiling childhood fantasy

Dumon’s distinctive, accessible new feature bows in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight

Diamond

‘Diamond’ review: Andy Garcia directs and stars as a noirish detective in disappointingly superficial LA story

Rosemarie Dewitt, Brendan Fraser, Vicky Krieps, Bill Murray and Dustin Hoffman also appear in Garcia’s second directorial feature

'Death Has No Master’

‘Death Has No Master’ review: Asia Argento finds herself adrift in heady, uneven Venezuelan drama

Jorge Thielen Armand’s hallucinatory thriller premieres in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight

'Goodbye Cruel World'

‘Goodbye Cruel World’ review: ‘Anatomy Of A Fall’ star Milo Machado-Graner shines in dreamlike Cannes Critics’ Week closer

Actor-turned-filmmaker Felix de Givry’s debut follows a bullied teenager who vanishes from his provincial town

'I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning'

‘I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning’ review: Clio Barnard’s Birmingham friendship drama builds on its superb performances

The ‘Ali & Ava’ director’s Cannes Directors’ Fortnight title stars Joe Cole, Lola Petticrew and an excellent UK cast

Low Expectations

‘Low Expectations’ review: Understated Norwegian depression drama stars singer Marie Ulven

Ulven, aka Girl in Red, impresses in Eivind Landsvik’s debut of burnout and recovery

'Six Months In The Pink Building'

‘Six Months In A Pink And Blue Building’ review: Intimate, precise portrait of childhood, memory and sexuality in Mexico City

Bruno Santamaría Razo’s Cannes Critics Week title effectively blends documentary and fiction

Spring

‘Spring’ review: Assured, tense Lithuanian debut plays out in occupied Ukraine

Strong performances and atmospheric craft anchor a story of quiet resistance and mounting dread

Minotaur

‘Minotaur’ review: Andrey Zvyagintsev remakes Claude Chabrol’s ‘The Unfaithful Wife’ as immaculate domestic thriller

The ‘Loveless’ and ‘Leviathan’ director’s Cannes Competition title intertwines personal and national crisis

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‘Women On Trial’ review: Charlotte Gainsbourg leads a persuasive dramatisation of landmark 1972 French abortion trial

Lauriane Escaffre and Yvo Muller revisit the historic Bobigny case through the eyes of lawyer and activist Gisele Halimi

Aqui

‘Aqui’ review: Ambitious Portuguese J.M. Coetzee adaptation explores the mysteries of childhood

An improvised family navigates uncertainty in Tiago Guedes’s three-hour Cannes Premiere title

Ben'Imana

‘Ben’Imana’ review: Evocative debut delivers a haunting tale of post-genocide Rwanda

Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo’s Un Certain Regard title is set against Rwanda’s post-genocide gacaca courts

'Her Private Hell'

‘Her Private Hell’ review: Nicolas Winding Refn thriller is exercise in style over substance

Sophie Thatcher and Charles Melton star in director’s soulless follow-up to ‘The Neon Demon’

Colony

‘Colony’ review: ‘Train To Busan’ director Yeon Sang-ho returns with fun, forgettable zombie horror

The Seoul-set Cannes Midnight title stars Koo Kyo-hwan, Gianna Jun and Kim Shin-rock

'Tin Castle'

‘Tin Castle’ review: Affectionate, unsentimental doc follows an Irish traveller family

Alexander Murphy’s follow-up to ‘Goodbye Sisters’ debuts in Cannes Critics’ Week

Dora

‘Dora’ review: K-pop star Kim Do-yeon heads July Jung’s feverish South Korean psychodrama

Jung follows ‘Next Sohee’ and ‘A Girl At My Door’ with Cannes Un Certain Regard title

'Fjord'

‘Fjord’ review: Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve intrigue in Cristian Mungiu’s underpowered Norway-set drama

Mungiu’s Cannes Competition title sees a Christian family going up against Norway’s child protection services