Sentimental Value review – Stellan Skarsgård is an egomaniac director in act of ancestor worship

Joachim Trier’s entertaining drama sees Norwegian auteur-on-the-slide Skarsgård putting his showbiz family through the wringer in the service of his fading career

The History of Sound review – Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor romance is full-bodied but tin-eared

A love story of two folk song aficionados in the early days of recorded music is told with tiresomely mournful awe at its own sadness

The Six Billion Dollar Man review – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s rise, fall and limbo

Focusing on the rogue’s gallery of hypocrites and crooks surrounding him, Assange himself is in the background of a pretty definitive examination

Banned film-maker Jafar Panahi says friends lost hope he would direct again

Speaking during his first visit to Cannes in 22 years, Panahi who has previously been imprisoned in Iran said he wasn’t doing ‘anything heroic’

A Private Life review – Jodie Foster is a sleuthing shrink in French-language Hitchcockian mystery

Foster plays a psychoanalyst who suspects her client may not have killed herself, and sets out to investigate with ex-husband Daniel Auteuil

Eleanor the Great review – June Squibb takes on Holocaust survivor trauma in Scarlett Johansson’s iffy directing debut

The 95-year-old actor gives an enjoyably twinkly performance in a film that misjudges how seriously its story should be taken

‘I think of those I left behind in prison’: Iran’s Jafar Panahi on life as a banned film-maker

He’s been jailed, gone on hunger strike and been forced to sell his house for bail. In his first newspaper interview for 15 years, the great director explains why every film is worth the consequences

Spike Lee says Highest 2 Lowest is his last film with Denzel Washington

Director says his fifth movie with the actor will probably be their last project together as Washington ‘has been talking about retirement’

Call for safety review after producer injured by falling palm tree at Cannes film festival

Festival attendee was hospitalised by a falling tree on the celebrated Croisette boulevard

The Secret Agent review – brilliant Brazilian drama of an academic on the run in the murderous 1970s

Kleber Mendonça Filho’s study of a man attempting to escape corrupt politics is a tremendous, novelistic study of corruption in high and low places

Alpha review – Julia Ducournau’s disjointed body horror is an absolute gamma

The winner of the Palme d’Or for Titane delivers a true turkey: the tonally inept tale of a girl with a dodgy tattoo and a disease that turns people to marble

Highest 2 Lowest review – Spike Lee and Denzel Washington remake Kurosawa in fine style

Akira Kurosawa’s downbeat noir High and Low is retooled with Washington on magnificent form as a record producer whose godson is kidnapped by mistake

‘Cinema doesn’t ship that way’: Wes Anderson mocks Donald Trump’s film tariff plans in Cannes

While acknowledging he is ‘not an expert in that area of economics’, the director criticised Trump’s announcement of a 100% tariff on films ‘from foreign lands’

Dogma 25 announced at Cannes, as directors launch ‘cultural uprising’

A new collective seeks to reinvigorate cinema in the mould of Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg’s Dogme 95 movement, with a 10-point manifesto opposed to the internet

The Love That Remains review – startling tragicomic portrait of a fractured family

Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason examines a broken marriage through stunning imagery and quirky fantasy visions, but his new comic tone undermines the pain