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Enzo review – Laurent Cantet’s swan song is a heartfelt tale of youth and desire

This powerful drama from the late film-maker and his longtime collaborator Robin Campillo, who directs, charts the growing pains of a teenager from a privileged family

Hallow Road review – Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys race to rescue daughter in cracking thriller

Shot almost entirely inside their car, Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys play a splintering couple trying to save their terrified teenager

Deaf President Now! review – passion and energy in stirring record of student protest

Documentary follows the 1988 anti-audism revolt in the US after the world’s first deaf university appointed a hearing person to head it

Partir Un Jour (Leave One Day) review – foodie musical is an undercooked turkey

Dreadful songs add no flavour to dreary tale of a big-city gourmet returning to her home-cooked roots

Robert De Niro attacks Trump in Cannes speech: ‘This isn’t just America’s problem’

Accepting honorary Palme d’Or at opening ceremony of festival, actor rails against the US’s ‘philistine president’

Robert Benton, Oscar-winning director of Kramer vs Kramer, dies aged 92

The writer and director, whose credits also include Bonnie and Clyde, Superman and Places in the Heart, died at his New York City home

Gérard Depardieu found guilty of sexually assaulting two women

French actor, 76, convicted of assaulting set dresser and assistant director during film shoot in Paris in 2021

Final Destination: Bloodlines review – death is back and more fun than ever

The jubilantly gory horror franchise returns with a hugely entertaining sixth installment which sets up an entire family tree for the slaughter

‘Theatre puts a finger in the wound’: Willem Dafoe returns to his first love in Venice

He is a transfixing screen presence – but he lives for the raw thrill of the stage. As he takes over the Venice theatre biennale, the star lets us know what to expect: cut-up plays and a Pinocchio unlike any other

Gaza Mon Amour: Palestinian love story finds romance in the rubble

Following an ageing fisherman courting a stoic seamstress, the film is a tender depiction of everyday Gazans – with plenty of phallic humour

A French icon falls: Gérard Depardieu’s guilt will make his films hard to watch

Some will argue the actor’s legacy of landmark film roles should not be tainted by his conviction for sexual assault. But it will

A New Kind of Wilderness review – beautiful film of off-grid family shattered by bereavement

When photographer Maria Vatne died in 2019, her family had to come to terms with not just the loss of a parent but a whole lifestyle, including their home

‘I invited a dozen ex-boyfriends to dinner and taped it’: the amazing avant garde recordings of Linda Rosenkrantz

As her tape-recorder adventures are brought to the screen by Rebecca Hall and Ben Whishaw, the 90-year-old remembers how she got the NY art crowd – from Peter Hujar to Chuck Close – talking about drugs, orgies and psychoanalysis

Good One review – excellent indie hike movie is intelligent and humane

Lily Collias is outstanding as 17-year-old Sam, who goes hiking with her dad and his best buddy in India Donaldson’s feature debut

Mission relatable: forget the stunts, the key to Mission Impossible’s appeal is office dynamics

From put-upon backroom schlubs to everyone-knows romances, the franchise reflects modern work culture, especially the collective banter, says Phil Hoad

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