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With a record 15-minute standing ovation at its world premiere, Joachim Trier's Sentimental Value is winning rave reviews and generating the biggest buzz from the Cannes Film Festival.

Set in the military dictatorship of 1970s Brazil, The Secret Agent "makes up in pulpy excitement what it lacks in subtlety", and "bursts with sex, shoot-outs and sleazy hitmen".

After years of imprisonment and travel bans in his native Iran, Jafar Panahi returns to Cannes with a furious but funny revenge thriller that could scoop the Palme d'Or.

In this period drama, premiering at Cannes, two of Hollywood's buzziest male actors play lovers making music together - but the film could do with far more passion and urgency.

Wes Anderson and the cast of The Phoenician Scheme tell the BBC about how they made the film, and about its formidable young star who plays a pipe-smoking trainee nun.

After winning the Palme d'Or for the shocking Titane, French director Julia Ducournau is back at Cannes with another nightmarishly weird film - but it's an unsatisfying watch.

When Midnight Cowboy came out 56 years ago this week, it instantly upended Hollywood's idea of a mainstream hit. In its Academy Award-winning year, the BBC spoke to one of its actors.

Featuring Benicio Del Toro, Michael Cera, Scarlett Johansson and many more stars, the director's latest farce The Phoenician Scheme has premiered at Cannes - and it's daft but fun.

Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson star in Lynne Ramsay's 'surreal' and 'intense' study of postpartum depression that has premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.

Director Ari Aster is once again set to shock with surreal, gory western Eddington, featuring Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal, which is premiering at the Cannes Film Festival.