‘Loving’
Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga portray an interracial couple who fall afoul of Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act when they marry in 1958, setting in motion a case that will span nearly a decade before being resolved by U.S. Supreme Court.
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‘Loving’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese "Silence speaks volumes. The great writers are people who write words and they write silence," said Joel Edgerton of Nichols’ restrained drama. "Everything was in touch with the truth of the real story."
Read more Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga on 'Loving'
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‘Loving’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Ruth Negga called Loving "the most important film I've ever made, and it is one of the most important films in history. I'm overwhelmed."
Read more Jeff Nichols Says His Wife Would Have Divorced Him If He Didn't Make 'Loving'
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‘Loving’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese "I hope this is the quiet film of the year, and I hope it puts people at the center of these issues, of these debates," said writer-director Jeff Nichols. "You can sit at your armchair at home and espouse all these issues, but they affect people."
Read more Jeff Nichols Says His Wife Would Have Divorced Him If He Didn't Make 'Loving'
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‘Personal Shopper’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Kristen Stewart reteams with her Clouds of Sils Maria director Olivier Assayas for the Paris-set ghost story.
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‘Paterson’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese "To play someone who is more reflective and thoughtful and almost a space cadet is I think what Jim [Jarmusch] was after — an antidote to the movies that seem fast-paced and urgent," said Adam Driver of starring in Paterson.
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Javier Bardem
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Javier Bardem appeared in Cannes for two reasons: he stars opposite Charlize Theron in the Sean Penn-directed drama The Last Face, and also hosted an event for Escobar, an upcoming film about the drug lord that he'll star in and produce.
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‘Paterson’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Golshifteh Farahani plays the onscreen wife of Driver, who plays a New Jersey bus driver with a serious poetry habit.
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‘Two Lovers and a Bear’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Dane DeHaan and Tatiana Maslany star in Kim Nguyen's love story as the titular couple trying to keep their love alive in a small town in the Canadian Arctic.
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‘Neon Demon’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Elle Fanning stars as a teen model who stirs jealousy and desire in Nicolas Winding Refn's new thriller.
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‘Two Lovers and a Bear’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Dane DeHaan told THR that he learned about how cold air flows while shooting the film, set in the frozen town of Iqaluit, in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. "You're constantly regulating the heat so you stay warm. … I would always want to wear my mask in the scenes!"
Read more 'Two Lovers and a Bear' Cast Talk Set Difficulties at Cannes
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‘Two Lovers and a Bear’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese "I really related to Lucy," said Tatiana Maslany of her character, "in terms of that restless spirit and that need to find something, whatever it is, that you need to make yourself feel whole."
Read more 'Two Lovers and a Bear' Cast Talk Set Difficulties at Cannes
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‘The BFG’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese From left: The BFG director Steven Spielberg with stars Ruby Barnhill and Mark Rylance at the Carlton Hotel.
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‘The BFG’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese "When I find a story that I want to tell, I tell it. I don't wait. I'm very impatient. If I get excited, I don't want that excitement to wane," Steven Spielberg, who directed The BFG, told THR. "I'm going to have a busy next couple of years."
Read more 'The BFG' Stars Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill Reveal What It's Like to Work With Spielberg
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‘The BFG’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Mark Rylance, who previously worked with the director on Bridge of Spies, said of working with Spielberg, "How you tell a story — Steven's constantly always thinking about that. You feel very confident as an actor that what you're doing is going to be placed into a well-told story."
Read more 'The BFG' Stars Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill Reveal What It's Like to Work With Spielberg
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‘The BFG’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Ruby Barnhill, the young lead of Spielberg's adaptation of the classic children's book, was starstruck upon meeting the director on the Bridge of Spies set, but "after the first five minutes, I literally just felt really, really comfortable straight away."
Read more 'The BFG' Stars Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill Reveal What It's Like to Work With Spielberg
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‘The BFG’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Rebecca Hall is featured in the Steven Spielberg adaptation.
Read more Steven Spielberg Addresses 'BFG' Author Roald Dahl's Anti-Semitism
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‘Trolls’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese "When I sang my side of 'True Colors,' Justin [Timberlake] had recorded his part already," Anna Kendrick, photographed at the Carlton Hotel, said of recording the Cyndi Lauper cover for the film's soundtrack. "At the end of the day I felt like, 'Wow, I really spent the day doing some intense, emotional work with Justin.' It was his voice from like two weeks earlier."
Read more Justin Timberlake, Anna Kendrick Explain How Their "True Colors" Performance Happened
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‘Money Monster’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese "I think this film is engineered to be as entertaining as it is smart," director Jodie Foster, photographed at the Carlton Hotel, explained to THR. "It also allows them to learn things and to be challenged and to be as challenged emotionally as they are intellectually."
Read more Why Jodie Foster Doesn't Feel Box-Office Pressure for 'Money Monster' (Q&A)
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Cafe Society
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese The L'Oreal spokesperson and fashion favorite Blake Lively was on hand at the fest for Woody Allen's Cafe Society.
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‘The Last Face’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Bardem plays a relief-aid doctor in the drama, shot in South Africa.
Read more Why Sean Penn's 'The Last Face' Filmed in South Africa
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‘Howard’s End’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Director James Ivory and Vanessa Redgrave reunite at the Majestic Barriere Hotel.
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‘Howard’s End’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Vanessa Redgrave earned a supporting Academy Award nomination for the 1992 film.
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‘Howard’s End’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Director James Ivory hit the fest for Cohen Media Group's newly-restored version of the 1992 Oscar best picture nominee.
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‘The Dancer’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Stephanie Di Giusto directs the biopic about Belle Epoque dancer Loie Fuller.
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‘The Dancer’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese French musician-actress Soko portrays the world-renowned but now relatively obscure Belle Epoque dancer Loie Fuller, formerly the toast of the Folies Bergere.
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‘The Dancer’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Gaspard Ulliel plays French aristocrat Louis, a composite of various historical figures.
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‘The Dancer’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Lily-Rose Depp plays Loie Fuller's discovery Isadora Duncan.
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‘The Dancer’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Melanie Thierry also appears in the biopic.
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‘I, Daniel Blake’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Director Ken Loach returns to Cannes with I, Daniel Blake, a drama about two people caught in an uncaring welfare system.
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‘I, Daniel Blake’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Comedian Dave Johns plays the titular character, a skilled carpenter in his late fifties who lives alone in a Brutalist low-cost housing block and is recovering from a heart attack.
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‘I, Daniel Blake’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Hayley Squires plays Katie, a young single mother who goes without food and basic necessities to take care of her two kids, eventually pushing her to make heartbreaking choices.
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‘Neruda’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Gael Garcia Bernal plays an obsessive detective on the trail of the famed Chilean poet-politician forced into exile in 1948.
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‘Neruda’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Director Pablo Larrain reteams with Bernal after 2012's No.
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‘Kitty’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Chloe Sevigny's short film Kitty is the first film in Refinery29's Shatterbox Anthology, a series of 12 films by emerging female filmmakers supported by the Sundance Institute and Killer Films. It will be available in select territories on Refinery29 later this year.
Read more Cannes Hidden Gem: Chloe Sevigny Steps Behind the Camera for Quirky 'Kitty'
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‘Neon Demon’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese "I really believe there is a 16-year-old girl inside of every man, and I wanted to make The Neon Demon about the 16-year-old girl inside of me," said Nicolas Winding Refn of his Elle Fanning starrer. "In the end I wanted to make a teenage horror film."
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‘The Last Face’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Bardem, who was attached to the film even before Penn, said he’s been interested since he read the script in 2000. "The love story, … the relationship is what drew me to the project," he said.
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‘London Town’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Dougray Scott is featured in the ‘70s-set drama, which follows a teen who is introduced to The Clash by his estranged mother.
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‘Bright Lights: Starring Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Co-director Fisher Stevens and Carrie Fisher of the family documentary.
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‘Bright Lights: Starring Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese "We just wanted to film them together, but it was hard for Debbie to understand that she didn't have to look at the camera and perform," explains Fisher Stevens.
Read more Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds Mother-Daughter Doc 'Bright Lights'
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‘Bright Lights: Starring Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese "I wanted people to see who she is [when] not being a persona," Carrie Fisher tells THR.
Read more Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds Mother-Daughter Doc 'Bright Lights'
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‘After Love’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Joachim Lafosse directs the family drama starring Berenice Bejo and Cedric Kahn.
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‘After Love’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Berenice Bejo plays a woman trying to liberate herself from an increasingly unlivable situation, opposite Cedric Kahn as the brooding boyfriend who just won’t let her go.
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‘Mean Dreams’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Josh Wiggins and Sophie Nelisse star alongside Bill Paxton as young lovers on the run.
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‘Mean Dreams’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Bill Paxton plays a crooked lawman out to retrieve his loot and his runaway daughter.
Read more Bill Paxton Discusses 'Mean Dreams'
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‘Mean Dreams’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Sophie Nelisse, who plays Paxton's onscreen daughter Casey, was intimidated by Wiggins at first, "but we had a great connection to start off."
Read more Bill Paxton Discusses 'Mean Dreams'
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‘Mean Dreams’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Josh Wiggins plays Jonas, Casey's neighbor.
Read more Bill Paxton Discusses 'Mean Dreams'
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‘Hands of Stone’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese The film centers on Roberto Duran, a Panamanian fighter who made his professional debut in 1968 as a 16-year?old and retired in 2002 at the age of 50. In June 1980, Duran defeated Sugar Ray Leonard to capture the WBC welterweight title, but shocked the boxing world by returning to his corner in their November rematch, famously saying the words "no mas" ("no more").
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‘Hands of Stone’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Edgar Ramirez portrays Roberto Duran onscreen.
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‘Hands of Stone’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Usher Raymond plays professional boxer Sugar Ray Leonard, the adversary to Panamanian boxer Roberto Duran (Edgar Ramirez). "I knew I really had to, first off, change my diet," says Usher of training for the film, "and then learn to really understand what these boxers were going through."
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‘Hands of Stone’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Jonathan Jakubowicz directs the boxing movie. "When you're shooting in Panama, the world capital of boxing, and you have 600 extras, there are at least 50 professional boxers among them."
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‘Hands of Stone’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Raging Bull star Robert De Niro returns to the ring, this time playing trainer Ray Arcel, who worked with Roberto Duran (Edgar Ramirez). "I trained hard for Raging Bull and Grudge Match, but these guys were terrific," says De Niro of co-stars Ramirez and Usher. "They really were committed to it."
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‘Hands of Stone’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Ana de Armas plays Roberto Duran’s wife Felicidad.
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‘Elle’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Isabelle Huppert stars in Paul Verhoeven first French-language feature, a dark comedy about a rape victim.
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‘It’s Only the End of the World’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Vincent Cassel is featured in Xavier Dolan's new film, about a young man who returns home to tell his family he's dying.
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‘It’s Only the End of the World’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese The Xavier Dolan film, also featuring Lea Seydoux, won the fest's Grand Prix prize.
Read more Canada Applauds Xavier Dolan Following Grand Prix Win for 'It's Only the End of the World'
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‘It’s Only the End of the World’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Nathalie Baye plays the family's matriarch.
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‘Dog Eat Dog’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Willem Dafoe and Nicolas Cage star in Paul Schrader's crime drama.
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‘Dog Eat Dog’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Nicolas Cage stars as an ex-con chasing one last big payday.
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‘Dog Eat Dog’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese Willem Dafoe plays Mad Dog who is involved in a kidnapping gone horribly wrong.
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‘Dog Eat Dog’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese THR's review said that Paul Schrader, who penned Taxi Driver, "has managed to freshen up a familiar format" and "has just gone for it here with a highly focused recklessness that he turns to his creative advantage."
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‘Dog Eat Dog’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Fabrizio Maltese THR's review also said of Nicolas Cage, "The long-in-the-wilderness actor actually comes off here as accomplished and even, believe it or not, appealing in a way; his Troy may ultimately find himself over his head but his attempt to take charge of a situation and momentarily rise above his true nature inspires a peculiar sort of admiration."