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The 2026 Cannes Film Festival is underway with French filmmaker Pierre Salvadori’s The Electric Kiss serving as the opening-night pic. Among the headline filmmakers debuting new works on the Croisette this year are previous Palme d’Or winners Cristian Mungiu and Hirokazu Kore-eda, two-time Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi and American indie veteran Ira Sachs. The […]

No voices are raised in “Nagi Notes,” in the course of a tranquil week or so spent in a remote rural village in western Japan. No seismic incidents disrupt the film’s mellow day-to-day flow, and though we hear sporadic background rumbles from a military base in the area, no urgent mortal threat hangs over proceedings. […]

Takako Matsu and Shizuka Ishibashi star as two women who redefine their relationship as friends while one sits for the other as an artist's model in this contender for Cannes' top prize.

In Tokyo Story, perhaps Yasujirō Ozu’s most famous movie, an elderly Japanese couple brave the bustle of the hectic capital to visit their adult children. Writer-director Kōji Fukada’s latest feature, his first in Competition at Cannes, is a meticulously detailed reversal that flips that premise in an intriguing way. Unusually for a film about a […]