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‘Parallel Tales’ Review: A Deluxe Ensemble Led by Isabelle Huppert and Virginie Efira Can’t Help Asghar Farhadi’s Aimles...

Vincent Cassel, Pierre Niney and Adam Bessa also star in the Oscar-winning Iranian director's drama about voyeurism and imagination, his second French-language feature following 20...

FILM: PARALLEL TALES ***1/2 intense fluid multi-layered script

15 May 2026 HISTOIRES PARALLÈLES (Parallel Tales) **** (vo French, with English subtitles) What a relief – it seems three’s a charm. Meaning that Asghar Farhadi’s third film made o...

Cannes at Home: Big Names Before Their Big Break

by Cláudio Alves Did the film student who directed PASSION dream he'd one day be a Palme d'Or frontrunner? The 79th Cannes Film Festival continues to unfold on the French Riviera...

Asghar Farhadi Lives in Iran, but Won’t Make Movies There

Back in Cannes with Kieślowski-inspired "Parallel Tales," starring Isabelle Huppert and Vincent Cassel, the two-time Oscar winner ("A Separation," "The Salesman") explains his unwi...

Cannes at Home: A Polarizing Pandemonium

by Cláudio Alves Adèle Exarchopoulos won a César for Jeanne Herry's ALL YOUR FACES. Will her new collaboration with the director, presently at Cannes, produce similar results? Th...

My Cannes Moment: Anaïs Demoustier

The French actress, star of the 2026 Cannes opening night film 'The Electric Kiss,' discusses her first festival red carpet – for Michael Haneke's 'Time of the Wolf' (2003).

‘The Birthday Party’ Review: Hafsia Herzi, Benoît Magimel and Monica Bellucci in Léa Mysius’ Gripping if Uneven Home-Inv...

A family living in a remote farmhouse and their Italian artist neighbor get a nasty surprise when three brothers bully their way in, the eldest of them with a personal agenda.

‘Gentle Monster’ Review: Léa Seydoux Stars as a Woman Reeling From Her Husband’s Dark Secret in Marie Kreutzer’s Sensiti...

Catherine Deneuve, Laurence Rupp and Jella Haase round out the cast of this conversation-starting Cannes competitor from the director of 'Corsage.'

‘Parallel Tales’ Review: Asghar Farhadi’s Dire Kieślowski Adaptation Turns ‘A Short Film About Love’ Into a Long Film Ab...

Cannes: Isabelle Huppert plays a novelist who spies on her neighbors for inspiration in a movie about voyeurism that offers little to look at and even less to see.

‘Parallel Tales’ Review: Asghar Farhadi’s Krzysztof Kieślowski Homage Drags Its Voyeuristic Premise Into A Creative Dead...

Krzysztof Kieślowski’s classic “Dekalog” series boasts a whopping ten-hour runtime and, yet, somehow feels sprightlier and briefer than Asghar Farhadi’s adaptation of one of its ch...

Gentle Monster review – disquieting drama about two women facing the truth about the men they love

Cannes film festival: Léa Seydoux is a wife and mother whose life unravels when police arrive to quiz her husband; Jella Haase is a detective dealing with her ailing father’s misde...

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‘Goodbye Cruel World’ Director and His Star, and ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ Breakout, on Exploring the “Omertà Around Bullying”...

Félix de Givry and Milo Machado-Graner discuss the Critics' Week closing film, moving from dark heaviness to more light, and why the French movie is a throwback to another period i...

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 DeneuveAsghar Farhadi is the Ira...

The Stranger – Film Review

The Stranger – Film Review by Hugh Maguire Directors – Khaled Haffad, François Ozon Writers – Albert Camus, François Ozon, Philippe Piazzo Stars – Benjamin Voisin, Rebecca Marder,...

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.

Cannes 2026: Fatherland, Parallel Tales

On two big early Cannes premieres: the latest from the directors of "Ida" and "A Separation."

‘The Birthday Party’ review: Hafsia Herzi and Monica Bellucci head conventional home invasion thriller from Lea Mysius

French Cannes Competition title is adaptation of the novel by Laurent Mauvignier

‘Think Good’ Review: French Canadian Thesp Monia Chokri Convinces as a Jewish Wife Trapped in a Toxic Relationship

The contemporary Franco-Belgian cinema certainly does not lack for films about toxic relationships and domestic abuse, with Xavier Legrand’s “Custody” and Valérie Donizelli’s “Just...

‘Gentle Monster’ Review: Léa Seydoux Learns the Truth About Her Husband in Marie Kreutzer’s Tough Study of Child Sex Abu...

Cannes: A tough and unflinching social drama about the predators among us — and how difficult it can be to see them for what they are.

I Saw ‘Angst,’ the Most-Disturbing Movie Ever Made, in Theaters

We went to see this banned Austrian home invasion film at a screening in NYC and it's still as nauseating and influential 43 years later.

A filmmaker’s gaze, unmoving

Yorgos Lanthimos, the Greek filmmaker whose unsettling visions have won him Academy Awards and global acclaim, is now turning gallery walls into cinematic frames.

Playtime picks up Geraldine Nakache’s Cannes-bound relationship drama ‘Think Good’

EXCLUSIVE: Monia Chokri and Niels Schneider star in the film that explores coercive control within a marriage.

‘The Birthday Party’ Review: A Dazzlingly Melancholy Monica Bellucci Powers Léa Mysius’ Predictable but Superbly Directe...

A birthday celebration turns into hell on Earth in this tensely crafted thriller where the production values elevate conventional material.