Cannes

Cops and robbers: with his latest, a film policier, Arnaud Desplechin explicitly comes to terms with the world, in a very personal way

Flaming creature: the star of three Cannes standouts, including Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Woman on Fire, on her ability to inhabit diverse characters

Going up: a closer look at some of the best Middle Eastern and African films at the festival

Eternal return: the director and stars of the Cannes sensation share some thoughts on what some have dubbed “Tarantino’s Roma”

Crossing over: the director on her debut feature Atlantics, a love story haunted by the failures of the global economy

Country life: The directors of Bacurau on how the film‘s setting in Brazil’s wild backcountry informed their blistering portrait of resistance

Old country waltz: Levan Akin’s And Then We Danced is a quietly revolutionary movie set in the former Soviet republic of Georgia

Stretching out: Kantemir Balagov’s Beanpole, Franco Lolli’s Litigante, Brazilian politics, and more on today’s festival rundown

It takes a village: though ungainly and sometimes ugly, there‘s a lot to admire in Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles‘s Cannes entry

Taking aim: Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles’s Bacurau, Mati Diop’s Atlantique, the state of documentary at Cannes, and more