palme d'or

The Square, Diane Kruger and Joaquin Phoenix take home prizes at this year’s Cannes Film Festival

Xavier Dolan takes bronze, and Julianne Moore wins best actress for Cronenberg’s ’Maps to the Stars’

Criticism of Kechiche’s ’male gaze’ is overblown

And Javier Bardem has to split Best Actor—but declares his love for Penelope Cruz

The Cannes jury favours dark, challenging, transgressive fare

It’s raining again in Cannes, and the films have been as unsettled as the sky. And as moist. Earlier I blogged about clogged...