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The Cannes Film Festival will run from May 12 to 23. Barbra Streisand and Peter Jackson are to receive honorary Palmes d'Or at the 79th edition. Park Chan-Wook will head the jury. The line-up will be announced on April 9. The festival will open with The Electric Kiss. We are currently inputting the line-up so please check back.
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Cannes Latest Reviews
Trouble brews at a gothic manor after they hire a governess.
A group of French high-school students travel to Naples on a school trip to discover the ruins of Pompeii and the bodies petrified by Vesuvius. There, they are drawn into a dizzying descent.
A dedicated surgeon whose private life is under strain because of the demands of her work finds things beginning to shift when a novelist comes to observe her work for a book.
Satire sees the cast of an opera rocked by an accusation of sexual assault.
The story of Charles de Gaulle's rise to power.
Absurdist comedy centring on a wealthy American industrialist trying to reconnect with his daughter on a luxury trip.
A biotechnology professor is among those trapped at a biotech conference after a rapidly mutating virus is released.
A high-powered executive's meticulously controlled existence begins to unravel.
Margot dreams of becoming a life-saving doctor. But as an intern at the most competitive ER in the country, she has trouble keeping up. Soon, young burnt out patients come to her with unusual symptoms, just as she starts developing a strange metamorphosis…
A couple take a humanoid robot into their home as a replacement for their dead son.
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