Marcello Mio review – droll Catherine Deneuve best thing in twee Mastroianni family whimsy

Playing themselves, film icons gaze into the looking-glass in this unconvincing and tiresome piece of cine-narcissism

Anora review – stellar turn from Mikey Madison in sex work non-love story

Sean Baker’s tragicomedy features Madison as an escort betrayed by a bratty oligarch’s son who she marries in a film that offers a more realistic take than Pretty Woman

Trump movie The Apprentice: ‘I don’t think it is a movie he would dislike,’ says director

Ali Abbasi spoke at Cannes about his controversial new film, which the Trump campaign has said ‘belongs in a dumpster fire’

The Apprentice: Trump campaign threatens legal action over biopic that depicts him as a rapist

Campaign spokesperson called Ali Abbasi’s film, which premiered at Cannes on Monday, ‘pure fiction which sensationalises lies that have been long debunked’

The Shrouds review – David Cronenberg gets wrapped up in grief

Elaborate necrophiliac meditation on loss and longing stars Vincent Cassel as an oncologist who has founded a restaurant with a hi-tech cemetery attached

Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice depicts him as a rapist

Ali Abbasi’s film, starring Sebastian Stan, presents a fictionalised account of an incident recorded in Ivana Trump’s 1990 divorce deposition, and since retracted

Mongrel review – Zen-like tale of compassion and suffering among migrant care workers

Close attention is required for this sombre but impressive Taiwanese feature debut about exploited illegal staff, and their patients and gangmasters

‘Information can be bent. Emotions are always honest’: the film at the heart of Ukraine’s agonising evacuations

Ivan Sautkin’s work as a volunteer helping people to safety gave him rare access to the trauma faced by people forced from their homes. The director relives the challenges of making the film as it screens in Cannes

The Substance review – Demi Moore is game for a laugh in grisly body horror caper

Moore plays a fading Hollywood star whose career is set to be axed by misogynists when she’s offered a secret new medical procedure

Limonov: The Ballad review – Ben Whishaw brilliant as Russia’s outlaw bohemian

Eduard Limonov’s bizarre career, from rebel émigré writer in New York to leader of a fascistic and militaristic political group, is told with gusto by Kirill Serebrennikov

The Balconettes review – neighbours finding trouble in invitation to hot guy’s flat

Noémie Merlant’s first film as a director is relentlessly silly, self-indulgent and unsuited to its themes of misogyny and sexual violence

Emilia Pérez review – Jacques Audiard’s gangster trans musical barrels along in style

A thoroughly implausible yarn about a Mexican cartel leader who hires a lawyer to arrange his transition is carried along by its cheesy Broadway energy

Sex, rape, cannibals: what Yorgos Lanthimos did after Poor Things

The maverick director and his trusted company of actors on making Kinds of Kindness, the ‘bonkers’ film causing a stir on the Croisette

Caught by the Tides review – two-decade relationship tells story of China’s epic transformation

The 20-year failed romance between a singer and a dodgy music promoter becomes the vehicle for director Jia Zhangke’s latest exploration of China’s momentous recent history

Cannes 2024 week one roundup – the jury’s out, the sun isn’t…

The weather didn’t play ball, but Magnus von Horn’s fierce fairytale and Andrea Arnold’s kitchen-sink take on English mysticism should count among the first-week highlights for Greta Gerwig’s jury