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The Diaries, because sometimes life needs more. 

A still from ‘The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo’ by Diego Céspedes

Moments incroyables: A second Cannes Dispatch

E. Nina Rothe May 17, 2025

Everything moves so fast on the Croisette, that sometimes I imagine I’ve been here for a year, others that I landed just five minutes ago. But in that time, somewhere in between, I’ve definitely watched loads of films, met interesting people and attended a few parties. So here’s a recap of… only the last 48 hrs?! Incroyable, I tell you.

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In Cinema, Fashion, Festival Tags Film AlUla, Cannes Film Festival, The Chronology of Water, Kristen Stewart, Imogen Poots, The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo, Diego Céspedes, Screen International, Marco Calvani, Netflix, Chanel, Lidia Yuknavitch, Un Certain Regard, Ken Kesey, ngelina Jolie, The Four Seasons., Colman Domingo, Marrakech International Film Festival, Finn Halligan, Red Sea International Film Festival, Faisal Baltyuor, Jeddah, Abduljalil Al-Nasser, Saudi Film Commission, Zaid Shaker, Mahsa Motamedi, Abeer Al Akel, Royal Commission for AlUla
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Laetitia Ky in a still from Erige Sehiri’s ‘Promised Sky’

Cannes Line-Up announcement 2025: Wondrous women filmmakers, returning favorites and a Spike Lee joint

E. Nina Rothe April 11, 2025

You have to love Spike Lee for crashing Thierry Frémaux’s insiders party at the line-up press conference… via social media of course!

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In Cinema, Festival Tags Laetitia Ky, Cannes Film Festival, Festival de Cannes, Promised Sky, Thierry Fremaux, Spike Lee, Iris Knobloch, UGC Montparnasse, Competition, Un Certain Regard, Highest 2 Lowest, Denzel Washington, High and Low, Jeffrey Wright, Akira Kurosawa, ASAP Rocky, Dardenne Brothers, Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater, Joachim Trier, Julia Ducournau, Kelly Reichardt, Hafsia Herzi, Carla Simon, Chie Hayakawa, Mascha Schilinski, Tarek Saleh, Tarik Saleh, Eagles of the Republic, Kleber Mendonça Filho, The Secret Agnet, The Secret Agent, Wagner Moura, Jafar Panahi, A Simple Accident, Mario Martone, Fuori, Valeria Golino, Goliarda Sapienza, The Art of Joy, Blue Moon, Nouvella Vague, Jean-Luc Godard, Zooey Deutc, Zooey Deutch, Darius Khondji, Walter Salles, Ari Aster, Eddington, Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, La Petite Derniere, Fatima Daas, Tom Cruite, Tom Cruise, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Erige Sehiri, Under the Fig Trees, Marie & Jolie, Tunisia, Scarlett Johansson, Harris Dickinson, Eleanor the Great, June Squbb, Golden Globes, Urchin, Frank Dillane, Amr Waked, Juliette Binoche
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Cannes Film Festival awards include top prizes for Sean Baker's 'Anora' and Guan Hu's 'Black Dog' in Un Certain Regard

E. Nina Rothe May 26, 2024

Many women-directed gems were snubbed, in favor of a story about a sex worker written and directed by a male filmmaker.

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In Cinema, Festival, The Diaries Tags Hanif Kureishi, Cannes Film Festival, festival de Cannes, Sean Baker, Anora, Guan Hu, Black Dog, awards, Venice Film Festival, Francis Ford Coppola, Megalopolis, Karim Aïnouz, Motel Destino, Agathe Riedinger, Wild Diamond, Magnus van Horn, The Girl with the Needle, Camera d'Or, Rungano Nyoni, Un Certain Regard, Roberto Minervini, The Damned, All We Imagine as Light, Payal Kapadia, Emilia Perez, Jacques Audiard, MIguel Gomes, Grand Tour, Mohammad Rasoulof, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Jesse Plemons, Kinds of Kindness, Yorgos Lanthimos, Adriana Paz, Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofia Gascon, Selena Gomez, The Substance, Coralie Fargeat, The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent, Nebojša Slijepčević, Bad for a Moment, Daniel Soares, L'Histoire de Souleymane, Boris Lojkine, Anasuya Sengupta, The Shameless, Abou Sangaré, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, Holy Cow, Louise Courvoisier, Norah, Tawfik Alzaidi, Armand, Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel, Mongrel, Wei Liang Chiang & You Qiao Yin, Sunflowers Were the First Ones to Know..., Chidananda S Naik, Out the Window Through the Wall, Asya Segalovich, The Chaos She Left Behind, Nikos Kolioukos, Bunnyhood, Mansi Maheshwari, CST Artist-Technician prize, Daria d'Antonio, Paolo Sorrentino, Parthenope, CST Young technician Prize, Evgenia Alexandrova, Noémie Merlant, The Balconettes
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This year’s Palm Dog winner Kodi with his director and co-star Laetitia Dosch

The Cannes Diaries: The day the festival went to the dogs!

E. Nina Rothe May 25, 2024

The Palm Dog winners, that is…

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In Cinema, Festival, The Diaries Tags Palm Dog, Cannes, festival de Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, dogs, Messi, Anatomy of a Fall, Woopets, France, Knauf Jewels, Soho Poms, Wendy Mitchell, Kinds of Kindness, Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Bird, Andrea Arnold, Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppola, Mutt Moment, Black Dog, Eddie Peng, Taiwan, Little Xin, Hu Guan, Toby Rose, Snoop, Palme D'Or, Kodi, Laetitia Dosch, Dog on Trial, Un Certain Regard, Kaleem Aftab, Peter Bradshaw, Rita Di Santo, Juliette Binoche, Meryl Streep
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A still from ‘The Girl with the Needle’, courtesy of the Festival de Cannes

The Cannes Diaries: Magical interviews, chance meetings and beautiful films

E. Nina Rothe May 19, 2024

There is a trick to this festival. If you stand still long enough in Cannes — something a bit difficult to do on a weekend as crowds are bustling all around you — you’ll run into everyone who is anyone in the film universe.

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In Cinema, Festival, The Diaries Tags Alleno & Rivoire chocolate, festival de Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, The Cannes Diaries, RH Three, Golden Globes, The Girl with the Needle, Venice Film Festival, Croisette, KEFF, Locust, Taiwanese cinema, La Semaine de la Critique, Francis Ford Coppola, Megalopolis, Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Andrea Arnold, Bird, Barry Keoghan, Magnus van Horn, Vic Carmen Sonne, Trine Dyrholm, Un Certain Regard, Zambia, Rungano Nyoni, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, Everybody Loves Touda, Nabil Ayouch, Doha Film Institute, Five Seas Hotel, DFI, Sebastian Sepulveda, Qumra, Elia Suleiman, Nina Rodriguez, Ali Khechen, Hanaa Issa, Fatma Hassan Al Remaihi, Cannes Premiere, Thierry Fremaux, Salle Debussy, Jean-Luc Godard, Rithy Panh, Rendez-Vous avec Pol Pot, Meeting with Pol Pot, Irene Jacob, Grégoire Colin, Leos Carax, C'est pas moi, Oscars, Academy Awards, Baby Annette, Annette, Denis Lavant, Bad Blood, Modern Love, David Bowie, Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump
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A still from ‘Maria’ by Jessica Palud

Cannes adds more titles, include Jessica Palud's 'Maria' and unveils jury for Un Certain Regard

E. Nina Rothe April 25, 2024

Plus, their selection of short films from all over the world and an immersive program which includes fantastic works featuring the voices of Cate Blanchett, Indira Varma, Tahar Rahim and Colin Farrell.

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In Cinema, Festival, The Diaries Tags festival de Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Un Certain Regard, Xavier Dolan, Lubna Azabal, Short Films, Jessica Palud's Maria, Matt Dillon, Giuseppe Maggio, Annamaria Vartolomei, Cate Blanchett, Indira Varma, Tahar Rahim, Maria Schneider, Bernardo Bertolucci, Last Tango in Paris, Marlon Brando, Rúnar Rúnarsson, When the Light Breaks, Arnaud Desplechin, Spectateurs, Lula, Oliver Stone, Michel Hazanavicius, The Most Precious of Cargoes, La Plus Précieuse des marchandises, Gerard Depardieu, Jean-Louis Trintignant, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Iran, Mohammad Rasoulof, Immersive Competition, Claire Bardainne, Adrien Mondot, En Amour, Laurent Bardainne, November Ultra, Evolver, Barnaby Steel, Ersin Han Ersin, Robin McNicholas, Maya: the Birth of a Superhero, Poulomi Basu, CJ Clarke, Kathy Packianathan, Charithra Chandran, Florrie Antoniou, Gloomy Eyes, Fernando Maldonado, Jorge Tereso, Max Riemelt, Jorge Drexler, Jam Hsiao, Eliza McNitt, Spheres, Jessica Chastain, Millie Bobby Brown, Patti Smith, Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar, Paolo Moretti, Claudine Nougaret, Vladimir Perišić, La Cinef, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Canada, China, Croatia, France, Kosovo, Lithuania, Portugal, USA, Singapore, Maïmouna Doucouré, Asmae El Moudir, Vicky Krieps, Todd McCarthy
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Anya Taylor-Joy as Furiosa in Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Village Roadshow Pictures’ action adventure  “FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures

The Festival de Cannes makes first announcements

E. Nina Rothe March 24, 2024

And these aren’t for the faint hearted, you’ll see. 

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In Cinema, Festival, The Diaries Tags Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, George Miller, Festival de Cannes, Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke, Out of Competition, Australian outback, Charlize Theron, La Residence, Un Certain Regard, Molly Manning Walker, Ernst De Geer, Anastasiia Solonevych, Danech San, Daria Kashcheeva, Aditya Ahmad, Paris, Meltse Van Coillie, Diana Cam Van Nguyen, Hao Zhao, Gessica Généus, Andrea Slaviček, Asmae El Moudir, Directors' Fortnight, SACD prize, Europa Cinemas award, People's Choice award, Fondation Chantal Akerman
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A still from ‘Family Romance, Llc’ by Werner Herzog

A still from ‘Family Romance, Llc’ by Werner Herzog

The Cannes 2019 Diaries: Wondrous Werner Herzog, 'Papicha' is my new heroine and the life surreal of a film journo

E. Nina Rothe May 22, 2019

In ‘Family Romance, Llc’ Werner Herzog finds a new way to work through the difficulties life throws our way — outsource them to an agency specializing in family connections. He does it with his usual flair for our human ridiculousness and making the impossible seem real. During the junket following the screening, I loved listening to my esteemed colleagues’ confused explanations of stories they thought they’d seen like this one in documentaries, or even completely convinced this was a reality film, instead of fiction. And Herzog himself quite perfectly, calmly and smoothly shooting down each and all of their perplexed ideas.

‘Family Romance, Llc’ was a Special Screening at this year’s Festival de Cannes.

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In Cinema, Festival, The Diaries Tags El Gouna Film Festival, El Gouna Cannes boat party, Engineer Naguib Sawiris, Egypt, Arab cinema, DFI, Doha Film Institute, Werner Herzog, Papicha, Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Diaries, Festival de Cannes, Un Certain Regard, Special Screenings, helicopters, Nice Airport, Abu Dhabi, Intishal Al Timimi, Mounia Meddour, Fitzcarraldo, Amazon jungle, Family Romance Llc, Japan, outsourcing
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Alain Delon, photo courtesy of the Festival de Cannes

Alain Delon, photo courtesy of the Festival de Cannes

Cannes Film Festival announces Competition, Un Certain Regard titles and an honorary Palme d'or to Alain Delon

E. Nina Rothe April 18, 2019

As a young girl, I remember watching anything that had Alain Delon in it. I had a super crush on him and, lucky me, no film of his was deemed inappropriate by my parents. So along with Luchino Visconti’s ‘The Leopard’ and ‘Rocco and his Brothers’, I also caught Delon in films like ‘The Swimming Pool’, ‘Zorro’ and yes, even ‘The Concorde… Airport ‘79’. In fact, from the latter I required that a friend of the family who knew how to knit make me a royal blue crew neck wool sweater that looked just like his. I would find you a photo but I would have to watch that entire film all over again and well, I’ve moved on from my pre-pubescent crush. And my taste in film has highly improved.

But Alain Delon remains the fascinating man, the sultry sex symbol that could even steal women away from Mick Jagger. And this year’s he’s the Festival de Cannes honorary Palme d’Or recipient. Kudos to the festival for finally getting the reclusive actor to accept their coveted lifetime award.

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In Cinema, Festival, The Diaries Tags Cannes Film Festival, Festival de Cannes, Cannes, Competition, Un Certain Regard, Werner Herzog, Diego Maradona, Asif Kapadia, Alain Delon, Elia Suleiman, Doha Film Institute, Abel Ferrara, Nicolas Winding Refn, Claude Lelouch, Maryan Touzani, Mounia Meddour, Bruno Dumont, Karim Ainouz, Papicha, Ira Sachs, Terrence Malick, Ken Loach, Xavier Dolan, Mati Diop, Atlantique, Arnaud Desplechin, Bong Joon-ho, Marco Bellocchio, Pedro Almadovar, Pain and Glory, Parasite, Young Ahmed, Dardenne Brothers
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Victor Polster in a still from Lukas Dhont's 'Girl'

Victor Polster in a still from Lukas Dhont's 'Girl'

The Cannes Diaries 2018: Lukas Dhont brings to Cannes his perfect 'Girl'

E. Nina Rothe May 13, 2018

At the center of filmmaker Lukas Dhont's groundbreaking first feature 'Girl' -- screening at this year's Festival de Cannes in Un Certain Regard -- is a teenager who wants to be a ballerina. Complex, as all teenagers typically are, beautiful, painfully honest and exquisitely feminine, the only twist here is that Lara was born a boy. And it's obvious from her very first moments on the screen that having that part of the body which separates the boys from the girls is something utterly unbearable for Lara.

But instead of creating conflict around this beauty, be it coming from her family, friends and the world at large, Dhont brings us instead into a world where a girl born into a boy's body who begins treatment to transition to her true self when we first meet her, has all the support she could ever hope for. And yet, her own passions, her self discipline, her sense of displacement inside the body fate dealt her at birth create enough strife, hold-your-breath moments and emotions to fully charge a one hour and forty-five minutes film. And fill our dreams for days and days to come.

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In Cinema, Festival, Interviews, The Diaries Tags Girl, Cannes Film Festival, Festival de Cannes, Lukas Dhont, Belgium, Un Certain Regard, ballerina, Victor Polster, transgender, teenagers
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Cannes Film Festival poster 2018

The Cannes Film Festival 2018 line-up -- UPDATED!

E. Nina Rothe April 12, 2018

All of us may remember that last year's Palm d'Or winner 'The Square' was not in the original lineup announced at the press conference for the Festival de Cannes 2017. So a few more titles may come in the later days, like Sorrentino's 'Loro' -- a tricky release date for the first half of this six hour movie in Italy at the end of April is probably puzzling the festival organizers -- and the infamous Lars Von Trier. I mean, today with the kind of fascist governments that are in place all over the world, his words and behavior seem meek and subdued. And the visionary that is Cannes artistic director Thierry Fremaux I'm sure realizes that.

Personally, I'm proudest of the two Italian films in the Official Competition this year, Matteo Garrone's 'Dogman' and Alice Rohrwacher's 'Lazzaro Felice'. And of course, Nadine Labaki's 'Capernaum' and Jafar Panahi's 'Three Faces'. Not to mention the excitement at both Spike Lee and Jean-Luc Godard being in Cannes -- two grand Maestros of world cinema. 

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In Festival, Cinema, The Diaries Tags Cannes Film Festival, Festival de Cannes, Lineup, Competition, Un Certain Regard, Midnight Screenings, Special Screenings, Out of Competition
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