Mick Jagger to play Josh O’Connor’s father in new film from Alice Rohrwacher
The Rolling Stone will play a lighthouse keeper in Three Incestuous Sisters, joining a cast including Dakota Johnson, Jessie Buckley and Saoirse Ronan
Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean review – a dashing retrospective for a cinematic titan
Cannes film festival: Barnaby Thompson’s documentary on the great British director is an exhilarating delve into the ebb and flow of Lean’s peerless career and sometimes complex personal life – with a grand cast of talking heads
Clarissa review – Sophie Okonedo mesmeric as Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway decamps to Nigeria
Cannes film festival: Commanding performances and a great musical score underpin this seductive drama about regret, memory and young love
Propeller One-Way Night Coach review – John Travolta family plane fantasy is a short-haul joyride
Travolta directs and narrates this 60-minute adaptation of his own short story about a boy who dreams of being a pilot
All of a Sudden review – care home drama is tender, meditative and a little too precious for its own good
Cannes film festival: Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s ocean-hopping treatise on love and mortality is undeniably beautiful – but it works best in its quieter, compassionate moments rather than the flurries of self-conscious solemnity
Fatherland review – Sandra Hüller brings a bayonet of intelligence to Paweł Pawlikowski’s taut return
Cannes film festival: Hanns Zischler stars as Thomas Mann on his 1949 tour of Germany, contending with political barbs, personal tragedy and his daughter, played by an extraordinary Hüller
Michael Pennington obituary
Distinguished classical actor and co-founder of the English Shakespeare Company who brought sardonic dash and physical grace to his many stage roles
Amandaland to Olof Dreijer: the week in rave reviews
Lucy Punch’s middle-class antihero is back, and one half of the Knife presents an album of dazzlingly inventive psychedelia. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviews
An AI version of Milton’s Paradise Lost is fundamentally unworthy of one of the great works of art
Pulp Fiction co-writer Roger Avary wants to bring the epic poem to the big screen using the power of artificial intelligence. It can’t be any good
The Odyssey: new trailer for Christopher Nolan’s classical Greek epic released online
Trailer offers glimpses of Matt Damon as mythological hero Odysseus, Tom Holland as his son Telemachus and Anne Hathaway as his wife, Penelope
The Sheep Detectives review – Hugh Jackman gives a flock in baa-rking mad cosy crime caper
Jackman plays the farmer in this Babe-style feelgood family film about plucky sheep who help solve a murder
Double Indemnity review – leaden drama turns crime classic into a very cold case
James M Cain’s hard-bitten novella gained bleak power on screen but this version, giving Mischa Barton her UK stage debut, loses its flinty edge
Primavera review – Vivaldi’s Four Seasons is school-of-Salieri backdrop for period musical biopic
The composer has a musical relationship with a teenage violinist in this lifeless adaptation of a novel by Tiziano Scarpa
‘Women want to experience pleasure’: how the female gaze caught the attention of film, TV and fiction
From passionate romantasy novels to premium television dramas, culture is bringing the agency, desires and interior lives of women to the fore. It’s proving good for business, but is this a permanent revolution?
The man who saw the future: the legacy of cultural theorist Mark Fisher
Touching on everything from late-stage capitalism to Adele, the work of the late writer is proving increasingly influential. Now a documentary on him is looking to live up to his ideals