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  Cannes 2014 halfway roundup: the acting’s the thing…

  …and the drumming. And the projection. Nick James tries to waive the auteurism in the face of the piecemeal pleasures of Foxcatcher, Whiplash, the, uh, Dardennes’ Two Days, One Night and other highlights so far.

  Nick James
  Tuesday 20 May 2014

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  It Follows – first look

  David Robert Mitchell’s tail-chasing horror is smarter than you’d think – and scarier than festival-goers expected, says Catherine Wheatley.

  Catherine Bray
  Monday 19 May 2014

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  Cannes 2014: La La horror – David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars

  Canada’s maestro of dark chills heads to Hollywood to watch the stars fall out of their tree. Catherine Bray is tickled.

  Catherine Bray
  Monday 19 May 2014

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  Cannes 2014: the eyes have it – Saint Laurent by Bertrand Bonello

  French filmmaking’s great hope tries on an urbane biopic of the late fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent for size. By Jordan Cronk.

  Jordan Cronk
  Sunday 18 May 2014

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  Cannes 2014: flat out west – Tommy Lee Jones’s The Homesman

  Nine years after his directorial debut opened here, the veteran actor and man in black returns to the western – with diminishing results, says Geoff Andrew.

  Geoff Andrew
  Sunday 18 May 2014

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  Cannes 2014: behind the scenes at the museum – Frederick Wiseman's National Gallery

  Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner is not the only art movie by a master of cinema at this year’s Cannes, says Isabel Stevens.

  Isabel Stevens
  Saturday 17 May 2014

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  Cannes 2014: girls found and lost – Girlhood and Captives

  Céline Sciamma hones her art with the “near-perfect” Girlhood – and Atom Egoyan returns to form with the grim fable Captives, finds Nick James.

  Nick James
  Friday 16 May 2014

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  Cannes 2014: savouring Mr. Turner

  Mike Leigh’s biopic of the great Romantic painter is a wickedly gruff late-life tragicomedy and class critique, says Isabel Stevens.

  Isabel Stevens
  Thursday 15 May 2014

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  Cannes 2014: crying Timbuktu

  Mali’s brutal jihadists are depicted with oblique defiance in this eloquent, complex and even compassionate j’accuse from Abderrahmane Sissako, says Geoff Andrew.

  Geoff Andrew
  Thursday 15 May 2014

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  Cannes 2014: Grace of Monaco and the thorny art of the opening gala

  Contra the Monaco royal family’s apprehensions, this year’s festival opener is less a farce, more a “stiff, moribund piece of soft-focus hagiography… for lovers of regal camp,” reports Jonathan Romney.

  Jonathan Romney
  Wednesday 14 May 2014

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