Cannes Film Festival 2010

Sergei Loznitsa offers a bleak depiction of a truck driver lost on a road trip across a hostile Russia, who encounters one brutal individual after another as he attempts to make a delivery.

Stephen Frears' new film Tamara Drewe is joyous. From the first witty shot on would-be writers in a writers' colony in a small village in England, ...

The question of pleasure in movie violence is key to how one takes Takesha Kitano's newest film Outrage, which premiered this week at Cannes.

I met with Weerasethakul, director of Uncle Boonmee, the #2 prizewinning film at Cannes. A man as peaceful and articulate as the movie, he laughed when I asked him to explain his film.

Uncle Boonmee quietly took Cannes by surprise for its evocative story of a dying man who experiences his past lives, including one as a buffalo in a jungle and another as a catfish.

OK, the 2010 Cannes Film Festival is over. Here are the awards, then the movies I saw rated on a four star scale and in order of basic preference.

Thailand won its first Palm d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival with critical favorite Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives.

There you are back in the US watching the Shrek franchise implode and shaking your head as MacGruber, the TENTH attempt in a row to spin off a decent ...

If anyone has ever had a fantasy of being a rock star living in the south of France, this new documentary on the Rolling Stones' six month tax-evasion inspired sojourn on the Cote d'Azur will feed this fantasy perfectly. A bit too perfectly.

I was surprised that Juliette Binoche was even more beautiful in real life than in the movies. She answered each question about Kiarostami's new film Certified Copy (in which she stars) with meditative reflection.

Abbas Kiarostami's new film Certified Copy is ambiguously subtle--and here-in lies the pleasure. The story of a gallery owner (played charmingly by ...

At Cannes, Gael García Bernal spoke about his directorial adventure with Revolución, a film intended to "make something out of what we think of what.. happened to Mexico during the last 100 years after the Revolution."

Carlos the Jackal loomed over Day Eight. For some, the Olivier Assayas film was a daunting roadblock they detoured around. A 5 1/2 hour miniseries smack dab in the middle of the day?

The theme of this year's Cannes? It's not economics, as some suggest. It's "less." Less movie stars. Less parties. Less print journalists. Less frenzy. Less crowds. And especially less interviews.

It's the only film from sub-Saharan Africa in the Competition at Cannes: Mahamet-Saleh Haroun's deeply sad movie about a father, fired from his job as a pool attendant, who betrays his own son.

Not every director makes his first feature film and ends up in Cannes. But if Alistair Banks Griffin's journey is any indication, it doesn't mean we should abandon all hope that movies of the future won't reflect the diversity of the human experience.

Beautiful actress Yoon Jeong-hee gave me the sweetest most bashful smile at the Cannes press conference for the new Korean film Poetry, as I asked director Lee Changdong what poetry really means.

One feels immediately that Biutiful takes place in a "human" universe -- a good thing given the empty aestheticism of some of the other films featured at Cannes this year.

It is only Day 7 of the Cannes Film Festival and it is a front-loaded festival at that, meaning most people are getting in and getting out. Offices and studios are sending fewer people for less time.

For director Mike Leigh, a truly inspired film is often followed by a smaller, less ambitious one, a sort of throat-clearing before the next big effort.

Everyone speaks the language of film at the Cannes Film Festival. But there's still a cultural divide. Take the excellent French actor Mathieu Amalric.

It's a prototypical opening night film for Cannes. Robin Hood delivers the star power they want to get the flash bulbs popping. Art can wait until tomorrow.