Review: Almodóvar is in a contemplative mood for his take on Fellini’s 8½

Antonio Banderas is among the other winners as contentious festival draws to a close

Fewer instant classics on show, but Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire, dark drama The Lighthouse and Irish horror Vivarium stand out

Cannes 2019: Quentin Tarantino reviewed, early Oscar buzz, plus Isabelle Huppert in Frankie

Cannes diary: Polanski’s latest film screens in secret; plus reviews of Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Young Ahmed

Cannes diary: Gender parity, populist politics, freebies and zombies. It’s all go already

Star-studded cast of Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton and Chloë Sevigny light up red carpet

Time will tell about the quality of the films – but the programme does not disappoint

Big-name auteurs in Croisette line-up, but only four films by women in competition

Review: Iranian master Asghar Farhadi crafts a crowd-pleaser that fails to satisfy

Nora Twomey’s ‘The Breadwinner’ misses out on animated feature gong in Seville

Only four out of the top 100 films directed by women in BBC poll of critics

Young Catalan merges flamenco and R&B to become one of the planet’s most vital pop stars

Review: Killarney-born Jessie Buckley plays dark version of Little Red Riding Hood

Review: It’s the favourite to win best foreign language picture at the 2018 Oscars

Prize for the Irish-backed ‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer’, while ‘The Square’ wins Palme d’Or

This time it was for a technical hiccup and not for Bong Joon-ho’s fine film ‘Okja’

Almodóvar says he will be ‘fighting for the capacity of hypnosis of the large screen for the viewer’ in the Palme D’Or, while Will Smith rows in behind the streaming service

DJ Shrem and partner artist Les Cullinan’s home zings with colour and curiosities

As the international film festival arrives this weekend, it’s the perfect chance to visit the Spanish city that revels in its natural gifts and life’s pleasures

Pedro Almodóvar’s interpretation of three Alice Munro stories is almost a masterpiece

The Spanish director on the making of his latest movie Julieta, his ‘unity with women’, and the lack of authenticity in modern cinema

‘Francis Bacon’s studio in the Dublin City Gallery is my favourite work of art’

Pedro Almodóvar quoted Philip Roth while promoting his latest work, made in his typical primary colours

Maren Ade’s ‘Toni Erdmann’ is a strong early contender for Palme d’Or

Woody Allen in line to set record while Pedro Almodóvar and Cristi Puiu eye Palme d’Or

Jackie Chan and Nick Faldo also linked with Mossack Fonseca documents

Oleg Sentsov sentenced for alleged terror plot in what critics describe as a ‘show trial’

Satirical wit, freewheeling sexuality and a new wave cinematic sensibility? François Ozon, director of ‘Sitcom’, ‘Swimming Pool’ and, now, ‘The New Girlfriend’, is a most French film-maker, and despite Hollywood overtures he refuses to change his style

Human catastrophe has always loomed large in Dardenne movies, but now, after decades of onscreen misery, the Belgian brothers are begining to let in a little light

Documentary aims to raise awareness about abortion restrictions

In town to plug what he says is his last film, ‘Queen and Country’, 25-time Cannes veteran John Boorman goes on a four-decade Riviera reverie, and reveals a few long-kept festival secrets along the way

From the realistic (books, video games, DVDs) to the less so (Rothko Painting No 1, Bond’s Aston Martin), ‘Irish Times’ writers reveal what’s on their Santa lists

Spain’s greatest living director tells Donald Clarke about the contemporary inspiration for his subversively light new comedy