The Film Stage

László Nemes began his career on a mountaintop that he’s struggled to scale ever since. Son of Saul was the rare first film that not only premiered in competition at Cannes but took home the Grand Prix (the first ever...

Clio Barnard returns to Directors’ Fortnight after The Selfish Giant and Ali & Ava with an adaptation of Keiran Goddard’s novel I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning. The director, whose Yorkshire upbringing is a site of belonging, has set her work...

Do not adjust your sets or fear that you’ve lost consciousness. Marking one of the more intriguing director-actor pairings in God knows how long, Leos Carax has, per Variety, secured Jenna Ortega to lead his next feature (and first since...

Seemingly cornering the recent market on Hollywood star-driven, auteur-directed French productions after Olivier Assayas’ The Wizard of the Kremlin last week, Vertical picked up Alice Winocour’s Angelina Jolie-led Couture following its TIFF premiere last year. With a cast also including...

Seen through a child’s eyes, the French Riviera suggests heaven on Earth. For the three at the heart of Bruno Dumont’s Red Rocks—Geo (Kaylon Lancel), Manon (Louise Podolski), and Rouben (Mohamed Coly)—their small town is all they know, with new...

In Everytime, a sun-dappled film about death and love that might be the best in Cannes this year, the terrible loss of a teenage girl’s life leaves her mother, younger sister, and boyfriend bound in mutual devastation. Set in present-day...

In the Grey, written and directed by Guy Ritchie, is a nifty bit of entertainment. Ninety minutes long before credits and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Henry Cavill, and Eiza González, the action thriller concerns a small group of “extraction specialists” who...

Almost ten years to the day since The Neon Demon’s premiere, Nicolas Winding Refn returns to Cannes with Her Private Hell—a film wherein the internet’s it girl du jour Sophie Thatcher is captured quite beautifully through the Danish filmmaker’s heightened,...

A soft upright piano playing “Amazing Grace” drapes in warmly over the opening image of Fjord: a powder-blue-hued glacial mountain towering over the glistening Norwegian fjord around which Lisbet (Renate Reinsve) and Mihai Gheorghiu (Sebastian Stan) have resettled their seven-person...

Garance (Adèle Exarchopoulos) is her name, and she’s proud of it: of being a feminist, a liberated woman, of having caring friends, loving family, and the most affectionate partner in the whole world. What she’s not pleased about is her...