Strawberry and Chocolate
This Cuban classic receives a long-overdue revival, says Peter Bradshaw
‘I’m not interested in making conclusions’
Her new film is inspired by a secret love within her own family, but as ever, it is not Claire Denis's aim to explain - just to show. Kira Cochrane met her
Lake Tahoe
At times the experience is so akin to watching a slideshow that the movements in the frame come as a happy surprise, says Xan Brooks
Katyn
Hats off to Polish director Andrzej Wajda, who has had the courage to say the unsayable about a wartime scandal. By Peter Bradshaw
‘Should I buy a flat in Bracknell or make a film in Transylvania?’
First-time director Peter Strickland tells Ronald Bergan how he came to make a revenge movie in a language he didn't speak with little money and no experience
From the catwalk to the favela
Sam Mendes gets wacky, Steven Soderbergh tackles vice and Brazil does a Billy Elliott. As the Edinburgh film festival kicks off, Peter Bradshaw picks his top 10
Pierrot le fou
This sparkling, anarchic 1965 thriller is vintage Godard
Irréversible’s Noé reverses for ‘sentimental’ Cannes contender
Audiences at the Cannes film festival could be in for a shock with Gaspar Noé's Enter the Void – no violent rape scenes but instead, the director tells Geoffrey Macnab, a melodrama
Everlasting Moments
An intelligent and optimistic - if a tad unambitious - Swedish film, says Andrew Pulver
A touch of Spring Fever infects Cannes film festival hacks
With the Cannes film festival now officially under way, the jostling to get into screenings is now in earnest. Did someone say 'VIP guest list'?
Delta
A solemn, slow-motion version of Straw Dogs with the wrong side winning, says Philip French
Blue Eyelids
Some tenderness and shuffling truths, but not enough to demand the audience's attention, says Philip French