Léa Seydoux

The Beast: One can only nod in agreement when Léa Seydoux shouts ‘what the f*** are you talking about?’

This insanely knotty art house brain-botherer is worth worrying at

Fri May 31 2024 - 05:10

The Beast star George MacKay: ‘Léa Seydoux likes a laugh, so there was a lot of joy making this film about existential dread’

Audiences have been watching the actor grow up on screen for two decades. Now he’s appearing with the Bond star in Bertrand Bonello’s multilayered art-house movie

Tue May 28 2024 - 05:00

Cannes 2022: God’s Creatures starring Paul Mescal to premiere at upcoming festival

‘Special screening’ planned for offbeat horror film starring Kerry woman Jessie Buckley

Tue Apr 19 2022 - 15:00

Cannes 2022: Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis and Top Gun: Maverick to be shown at film festival

Up to 35,000 accredited to attend the festival this year, the biggest showing since 2019

Thu Apr 14 2022 - 14:18

The French Dispatch: Something for le weekend

Wes Anderson’s Gallic portmanteau is gorgeous but insubstantial

Fri Oct 22 2021 - 05:00

No Time to Die film review: The opening sequence is the best thing about it

The new Bond film starts brilliantly, goes off the boil, then rallies in a stirring finale

Wed Sept 29 2021 - 01:01

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

Sat Jan 30 2021 - 05:00

‘Do I really care?’ Woody Allen comes out fighting

The film-maker, accused of sexually assaulting his child in 1992, is done treading carefully

Fri May 29 2020 - 12:10

Céline Sciamma: I wanted to make something that breaks your heart. That’s a spoiler

Maker of Tomboy and Girlhood on being a woman in cinema and her ‘heartbreaking’ new film

Sat Feb 08 2020 - 05:00

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

Sat Dec 28 2019 - 05:00

The 25 best films of the 2010s. None of them won best-picture Oscar

The decade in culture: Arrival, Lady Bird, Get Out... But which movie is at number one?

Mon Dec 23 2019 - 06:00

Fifty Shades, Kanye, Love/Hate: The films, TV, books and music that defined the decade

The Decade in Culture: The most impactful books, series and performers of 2010-19

Fri Dec 20 2019 - 06:00

James Bond: No Time to Die – What we learned from first full trailer

We rummage through the first trailer for clues to the 25th Bond movie

Wed Dec 04 2019 - 17:05

James Bond: No Time to Die first trailer released

In trailer for 25th 007 film Daniel Craig comes face to face with his replacement

Wed Dec 04 2019 - 14:08

‘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

Sat Aug 03 2019 - 05:00

Cannes 2019: Days without Elle Fanning fainting? Two

Cannes diary: Vivarium, Tarantino, Oh Mercy, Seven Beauties, Matthias & Maxime

Thu May 23 2019 - 14:03

The eight best shows to watch on Netflix in July

‘Good Girls’ sees Christina Hendricks stage a heist, as ‘Orange is the New Black’ returns

Mon Jul 02 2018 - 11:33

Cannes 2018: walkouts galore at von Trier screening

Cannes diary: Spike Lee’s black Klan comedy, Wim Wenders’s Papal pic and Lars von Trier’s latest outrage

Tue May 15 2018 - 13:15

Cannes 2018: There’s only one contender for picture of the year

Cannes daily: A shot of Kristen Stewart glancing admiringly at Cate Blanchett is causing a stir

Thu May 10 2018 - 13:22

Harvey Weinstein: NYPD and London police investigate

Oscars academy describes sexual abuse allegations as repugnant and abhorrent

Thu Oct 12 2017 - 19:53

It’s Only the End of the World review: an unfocused sort of homecoming from Xavier Dolan

Dolan’s entry into the Weekend in Family Hell genre is certainly adventurous, but woefully miscast, and ultimately fails in its ambitions

Thu Feb 23 2017 - 11:00

It’s Only the End of the World Cannes review: the festival’s largest disappointment so far

At the grand age of 27, Xavier Dolan has finally made a poor film

Thu May 19 2016 - 17:59

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

Tue May 10 2016 - 15:24

Spectre review: James Bond back on form, but...

Tension between innovation and tradition ultimately pulls latest 007 episode to pieces

Mon Oct 26 2015 - 11:20

Farrell meets Cannes press as The Lobster eyes top prize

‘It’s the kind of film that being in it doesn’t mean I know any more about it’

Fri May 15 2015 - 15:00

New James Bond trailer unveiled in fittingly covert style

‘Spectre’, starring Daniel Craig and Monica Bellucci, is set to be released in October

Sun Mar 29 2015 - 17:28

Andrew Scott wins role in new James Bond film Spectre

Irish actor plays Whitehall boss with Daniel Craig reprising role as 007

Thu Dec 04 2014 - 20:04

Review: Grand Central

Fri Jul 18 2014 - 00:18

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

Fri Nov 22 2013 - 00:00