Parallel Tales review – Isabelle Huppert pens furtive sexual fantasy for Vincent Cassel in Asghar Farhadi’s latest

Cannes film festival: Iranian auteur Asghar Farhadi returns to France with this intriguing middleweight meta-drama featuring a cameo from Catherine Deneuve Asghar Farhadi is the Iranian auteur whose film-making style has always shown the high European influences of Antonioni and Haneke. He has in fact made two films in Europe: The Past in France and Everybody Knows in Spain. Now he returns to France and the French language for this diverting, middleweight meta-drama about betrayal and about a...

By Peter Bradshaw

Parallel Tales review — hurrah for Isabelle Huppert’s spiky diva energy - The Times

Parallel Tales review — hurrah for Isabelle Huppert’s spiky diva energy  The Times

Demi Moore sparks ‘fascist propaganda’ backlash at Cannes after telling Hollywood to stop fighting AI

Demi Moore sparked outrage at Cannes by declaring Hollywood's fight against artificial intelligence is lost, urging the industry to embrace AI instead.

Huppert, Cassel and Sandra Hüller light up Cannes 2026 as Farhadi and Pawlikowski premiere new films

The stars are out in force on the Croisette tonight as Asghar Farhadi unveils 'Parallel Tales', bringing together an extraordinary French cast including Virginie Efira, Pierre Niney, Isabelle Huppert, Vincent Cassel and a special appearance from Catherine Deneuve. Meanwhile, Paweł Pawlikowski returns to competition with 'Fatherland', starring Sandra Hüller in one of the festival’s most anticipated premieres. FRANCE 24's Culture editor Eve Jackson reports live from the Cannes Film Festival red...

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Fandango Scores Sales on Sicily-Set ‘Sweetheart’ by Margherita Spampinato, Who is Being Honored in Cannes (EXCLUSIVE)

Italy’s Fandango has scored multiple sales on “Sweetheart” (“Gioia Mia”) the delicate generation gap drama by Margherita Spampinato who is being honored with Kering’s Emerging Talent Award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The fresh film about a cheeky young boy named Nico who is raised in a tech-savvy family and forced to spend the […]

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Cannes: ‘Parallel Tales,’ Iranian Master Asghar Farhadi’s Competition Film, Premieres to Polite Ovation

The French-language drama boasts an all-star Gallic cast that includes Isabelle Huppert, Virginia Efira, Vincent Cassel and, in a small role, Catherine Deneuve.

By Scott Feinberg

Oscar Winner Asghar Farhadi’s ‘Parallel Tales’ Gets 7-Minute Standing Ovation In Cannes

Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s first feature in five years received a warm welcome in Cannes tonight as an enthusiastic audience gave Parallel Tales a seven-minute standing ovation. Following the screening, French screen icon Catherine Deneuve embraced co-star Isabelle Huppert and diirector Asghar Farhadi. Farhadi shot the feature in Paris last year. The film is […]

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Playlist of the week: a soundtrack for Cannes - The Observer

Playlist of the week: a soundtrack for Cannes  The Observer

Riley Keough Evades Cannes Dress Code Rule in Sheer Look on Red Carpet

Riley Keough will have you all shook up with this look. The Daisy Jones & the Six actress found a way to circumvent the dress code at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival that prohibits fully see-through...

Cannes day 2 - The Daily Star

Cannes day 2  The Daily Star

Diego Luna immigration drama ‘Ashes’ earns standing ovation at Cannes

The globally admired Mexican director's latest effort brings the equally admired Mexican author Brenda Navarro's prize-winning 2022 novel "Ceniza en la boca" to the screen. The post Diego Luna immigration drama ‘Ashes’ earns standing ovation at Cannes appeared first on Mexico News Daily

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