Gentle Monster review – disquieting drama about two women facing the truth about the men they love

Cannes film festival: Léa Seydoux is a wife and mother whose life unravels when police arrive to quiz her husband; Jella Haase is a detective dealing with her ailing father’s misdeeds

Cantona review – Beckham and Ferguson keen defenders as Eric gnomically quotes Baudelaire

Cannes film festival: This lively documentary about everyone’s favourite hot-headed footballer/unlikely Ken Loach star will give more than just fans a kick

‘Extremely cruel and tragic’: Iranian director Asghar Farhadi speaks out against state violence and the war

The film-maker, who won the Grand Prix for A Hero in 2021, condemned both the killing of protesters and the conflict’s bombing campaigns during a Cannes press conference

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

A year in hospital and 90% lung damage: how Andrey Zvyagintsev came back from Covid to Cannes

Cannes film festival: The great Russian director of Leviathan, Loveless and The Return has overcome extraordinary obstacles to present his first film in nine years

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

Spit, vomit and a banned baby: Cannes controversies – ranked!

For every standing ovation there’s a riotous backlash – the film festival’s history is littered with boos, protests, furious rows and career-defining disasters

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma review – Gillian Anderson superb in queer slasher spectacular

Young indie film-maker Kris tracks down Anderson’s Final Girl for a remake of a beloved horror, to find fantasy and reality collapsed

A Woman’s Life review – a breezy comedy of midlife crisis and same-sex affair

Cannes film festival: Léa Drucker gives a bravura performance as a brilliant surgeon whose already chaotic life is further complicated by a same-sex affair with a journalist

Butterfly Jam review – Barry Keoghan can’t save this New Jersey misstep

Cannes film festival: The Irish actor plays a disillusioned Circassian chef with a knack with animals in Kantemir Balagov’s clunky third film

Nagi Notes review – clear, calm light shed on criss-crossed family passions

Cannes film festival: Set in a beautifully filmed provincial Japanese town, what could have been a soapy drama is told with poetic restraint and subtlety by Kôji Fukada

Cannes is a beautiful, gruelling circus. I wouldn’t quit it for anything

The festival is a celebration of cinema and a frantic trade show all at once. After 25 years, I can’t help but go back, says critic Agnès Poirier

The Electric Kiss review – belle époque seance comedy struggles to summon real magic

Cannes film festival: Pierre Salvadori’s whimsical period farce about a fake medium and a grief-stricken painter has charm and elegance, but its romantic fantasy never quite ignites

Cannes spotlight reverts to auteurs as Hollywood retreats from film festival

Absence of big US films heralds renewed focus on international cinema that underpins festival’s reputation

‘I should have kicked him even harder. He deserved it’: Eric Cantona comes out fighting

A new documentary at Cannes film festival looks at the French footballer’s five turbulent and triumphant seasons in Manchester – and the love story between him and manager Alex Ferguson