Robin Campillo
Lanthimos joins jury at next Cannes Film Festival
Greek director, screenwriter and producer Yorgos Lanthimos was selected along with US actress Elle Fanning and Italian director Alice Rohrwacher to be part of the jury at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival in May, the organizers announced on Monday.
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Swedish director winner of 70th Cannes Festival
It was not a great festival. Among the 19 features selected for the competition in Cannes, there were quite a number of "mediocre" films, besides some good films. I had three favorites: "Loveless" by Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev, "Happy End" by Austrian Michael Haneke and "The Square" by Swedish director Ruben Östlund.
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'The Square' by Sweden's Ruben Ostlund wins Palme d'Or
Swedish director Ruben Ostlund's The Square has won this year's Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival on May 28.
Yorgos Lanthimos wins best screenplay at Cannes 2017 (photos)
The Greek master of the weird Yorgos Lanthimos picked up the best screenplay award at the Cannes film festival Sunday for his icy thriller The Killing of a Sacred Deer.
Despite dividing critics — and prompting its star Nicole Kidman to say she wouldn’t be taking her kids to watch it — the creepy tale inspired by Euripides’ Iphigenia impressed the Cannes jury.
Cannes Festival celebrates 70th edition
The Cannes Film Festival, the world's premier film event, will open on May 17 with "The Ghosts of Ismael," the latest film by French director Arnaud Desplechin and an opening ceremony hosted by luminaries Monica Bellucci and Pedro Almodovar.
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