Passages review: Ben Whishaw is a marvel – but you can’t take your eyes off Franz Rogowski
A torrid, gripping drama that economically picks apart a doomed ménage à trois
Adèle Exarchopoulos
‘We didn’t have an intimacy co-ordinator. We decided to build this thing together and trust one another’
Passages actor Franz Rogowski on charming psychopathy and creating convincing relationships with Adèle Exarchopoulos and Ben Whishaw
The Five Devils: Five stars for a time-travelling melodrama you could not have seen coming
Léa Mysius’s swirling imagination is anchored by remarkable performances from Sally Dramé and Adèle Exarchopoulos
Léa Mysius: ‘I dreamed of this gift where I could get into someone’s head and see through their eyes’
The French film-maker’s magical tone is all over The Five Devils, centred on the power of smell
The best sex scene ever? The puppet copulation in Team America
As a summation of every cinematic evasion about the sexual act it is close to perfect
Critics seem to have already forgotten some of the past decade’s best films
Donald Clarke: Blue is the Warmest Colour, 12 Years a Slave both overlooked in the polls
‘Cancelled’ Woody Allen unlikely to ever again find welcome in US film industry
Different cases of Allen and Polanski show how past is now up for vigorous reassessment
Cannes 2016: the Palme d’Or really does influence world cinema – and here’s the proof
Every now and then, the Cannes Film Festival’s top prize anticipates a movement
The Ticket Awards: Film
The strong showing of 'Blue is the Warmest Colour' suggests erudite Ticket readers just can’t get enough Franco-Tunisian neo-realism, writes Donald Clarke
Blue proves the warmest colour as 10-minute lesbian sex scenes pull in the plaudits
As his three-hour love story arrives in Irish cinemas weighed down with awards – and ongoing allegations of exploitation – director Abdellatif Kechiche ponders the dynamics of love and betrayal with Donald Clarke
Cannes Palme d’Or goes to controversial film ‘Blue is the Warmest Colour’
Grand Prix goes to Coen Brothers’ ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’
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