Cannes Film Festival 2014 – all our coverage

Cannes 2014 preview: stiff competition

Jonathan Romney on what to look out for in this year’s festival – from the usual auteur heavyweights to the roster of UK talent.
Tuesday 13 May 2014

Grace of Monaco and the thorny art of the Cannes 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.
Wednesday 14 May 2014

Cannes 2014: ne plus ultra and no backing down

Can the festival change with the times, asks Nick James?
Wednesday 14 May 2014

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.
Tuesday 20 May 2014

Cannes 2014: Palme predictions

Time for prizes and wonder. Who will Jane Campion’s jury beckon up the red carpet, asks Isabel Stevens?
Saturday 24 May 2014

Cannes 2014: awards and reaction

Congratulations to Cannes’ rising stars Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Alice Rohrwacher; commiserations to the ill-rewarded Marion Cotillard and Abderrahmane Sissako, says Nick James.
Saturday 24 May 2014

Timbuktu first-look review: an eloquent and complex Malian j’accuse

Mali’s brutal jihadists are depicted with oblique defiance and even compassion in this latest exemplary piece of cinema from Abderrahmane Sissako, says Geoff Andrew.
Thursday 15 May 2014

Girlhood and Captives: girls found and lost

Céline Sciamma hones her art with the “near-perfect” Girlhood – and Atom Egoyan returns to form with the grim fable Captives, finds Nick James.
Friday 16 May 2014

National Gallery review: Fred Wiseman behind the scenes at the museum

Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner is not the only art movie by a master of cinema at this year’s Cannes, says Isabel Stevens.
Saturday 17 May 2014

Saint Laurent review: the eyes have it in Bertrand Bonello’s urbane Yves Saint Laurent biopic

French filmmaking’s great hope tries on a fictionalised slice of the late fashion designer for size. By Jordan Cronk.
Sunday 18 May 2014

The Homesman review: Tommy Lee Jones goes flat out west

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.
Sunday 18 May 2014

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.
Monday 19 May 2014

Maps to the Stars review: David Cronenberg’s La La horror

Canada’s maestro of dark chills heads to Hollywood to watch the stars fall out of their tree. Catherine Bray is tickled.
Monday 19 May 2014

Ah Dieu, puns Jean-Luc Dogard

In Adieu au langage, JLG fecks around with 3D – and forfeits his Cannes dinner invitation again. “This ends in barking”, Nick Roddick reads…
Wednesday 21 May 2014

Amour fou, Force majeure and White God: the best of Cannes 2014’s Un Certain Regard

Nick Roddick finds out-of-the-way gems, about a literary suicide pact, an avalanche of familial embarrassment and the apocalyptic misadventures of a Jekyll-and-Hyde dog.
Wednesday 21 May 2014

Leviathan review: Andrey Zvyagintsev has big fish to fry

The director of The Return returns with a surprising, weighty and damning fable of contemporary provincial Russia, says Geoff Andrew.
Friday 23 May 2014

Ken Loach’s Jimmy’s Hall review: still fighting the power

Ken Loach winds down half a century of fiction-film mastery with a relatively minor study of a dissident spirit in post-revolutionary Ireland, reports Nick Roddick.
Friday 23 May 2014