Geoff Andrew sees the veteran master make his long-awaited return with a modest, subterranean two-hander.
Demetrios Matheou wonders at the French former wunderkind’s madly eclectic meta-movie – and, less happily, at a directorial feature debut from actress Sandrine Bonnaire.
Amy Taubin hopes death succeeds patriarchy as the flavour of this year’s festival.
Jonathan Romney on the late Chilean master’s fond farewell to a life of artistic delinquency.
Nick James checks his notes: the festival’s most tender as well as telling film so far comes from the Austrian disciplinarian.
Geoff Andrew on the Palme d’Or alumnus’s return to the Competition.