Renée Dorléac, actor and mother of Catherine Deneuve, dies aged 109

Star who dubbed French versions of talkies starring Olivia de Havilland and Judy Garland quit acting during second world war

Petrov’s Flu review – feverish tale of a pandemic and societal breakdown

Kirill Serebrennikov’s prescient and audacious but oppressive drama is set in a post-Soviet Russia in the grip of a flu epidemic

Our Men review – Rachel Lang delivers an unadorned tour de force

Anxiety and instability stalks the private lives of French foreign legion soldiers in this restrained and hugely poignant drama

Drive My Car review – mysterious Murakami tale of erotic and creative secrets

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi reaches a new grandeur with this engrossing adaptation about a theatre director grappling with Chekhov and his wife’s infidelity

Mi Iubita Mon Amour review – touching debut from Noémie Merlant

The acting star has focused her first feature on a Romanian teenager, dazzled by an older French woman, and their ill-fated flirtation

A Hero review – Asghar Farhadi’s realist tale is just too messy and unsatisfactory

Plot holes trip up the Iranian director’s drama of a slippery man’s desperate efforts to trick his way out of debtors’ prison

‘A woman wanting to make films was a joke’: Márta Mészáros, pioneering Hungarian director

The Golden Bear winner is 90 this year. As a showcase of her films plays in London, she reflects on her career, from documentaries to dramas, and the impact of censorship

Three Floors review – Nanni Moretti melodrama lacks profundity

There are powerhouse performances and queasily effective scenes in this story of a man who suspects his neighbour of abuse, but it’s a soapy shadow of The Son’s Room

The Halt review – alt-reality anti-authoritarian fable from Filipino auteur Lav Diaz

Diaz’s latest opus lampoons a Duterte-esque president struggling with a rebel enclave while a deadly flu epidemic rages

La Fracture review – gilets jaunes fable breaks under weight of its metaphors

A lovelorn woman lies in a Paris hospital as violent protests rage on the streets. It’s all very symbolic … but is it any good?

‘A weirder Cannes’: how Covid-19 has changed the face of the film festival

The face mask has become the most ubiquitous accessory at this year’s event and makes it difficult to know who’s who

Tove review – impassioned portrayal of Moomins creator lights up biopic

The story of Tove Jansson’s artistic struggles and daring bisexual affairs in 1940s Finland is energised by a shining central performance from Alma Pöysti

Martin Eden review – Jack London’s thrilling tale of hollow success

This Italian adaptation of London’s 1909 novel follows the ascent of a proletarian novelist to popular success which proves a bitter disappointment

Everything Went Fine review – wonderfully observed story of assisted dying

André Dussollier and Sophie Marceau are outstanding as a father and daughter whose tricky relationship is upended when he asks for her help to die

Ahed’s Knee review – patchily brilliant account of Israeli trauma

Nadav Lapid’s film begins with some distinctively original sequences about his movie-directing hero, but sinks into anguished monologuing