The race for the 2015 Palme d’Or looks at this stage to be between ‘Son of Saul’ and ‘Carol’, two extraordinary pictures from two very different film-makers

Son of Saul is potentially the last ever Palme d’Or winner to be shot and projected with film: it would be quite the way to go

Yorgos Lanthimos’s poisonously effective film may be about the tyranny of coupledom, or it may not...

Hirokazu Kore-eda has made a quiet and lovely thing; a bit more plot and structure would not go amiss though

Naomi Kawase’s latest hammers home the metaphors, but its conviction and intelligence also shine through

Opening film obscure, but the 68th festival has much to offer, writes Donald Clarke in Cannes

The Irish Times will be keeping a close eye on all the happenings up and down the Croisette at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Meanwhile, here are a few of the movies whetting our appetite

Interview: The French were the first to see Mad Max as a western on wheels, says director George Miller. Forty years later, he’s back in Cannes with the explosive fourth part, Fury Road