This year’s Cannes Film Festival won’t happen in June

A head-spinning documentary, based on the book by French economist Thomas Piketty, turns the tale of capital in the last 300 years into a financial detective story that exposes our current crisis.

This SXSW-programmed French portmanteau comedy sends up the perils of online living to alternately sharp and slight effect.

There’s a lovely friendship at the center of Alice Wu's sweet, sincere high school Cyrano story, revealing what we've been missing from teen movies.

France has laid out its plans to get back to work after the COVID-19 lockdown, but for the nation's film industry, the news doesn't look good. Under the guidelines outlined by French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe to the country's National Assembly on Tuesday, cinemas will not be among the businesses allowed to reopen when France begins to loosen its lockdown measures May 11.

By Nancy Tartaglione

Spending so much time at home has been eye-opening for Jean-Christophe Novelli.The French chef, 59, admits to OK! that the coronavirus lockdown has made him realise he was in denial about the severity of his son Valentino’s autism. The diagnosis in late 2019 came just a year after the three-year-old was given the all-clear after being diagnosed with stage four neuroblastoma, a rare form of cancer, at just 10 weeks old.

Daft Punk is back -- kind of.The French icons are working on the soundtrack to a forthcoming film by legendary Italian director Dario Argento, who in an interview with Italian newspaper La Reppublica said the duo called to say they were fans of his work and wanted to contribute to the movie."They are my admirers, they know all my cinema," Argento said.

By Jem Aswad

By Tom Grater

The Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday abandoned plans for a postponed 2020 edition in June or July but declined to give up entirely, saying it will explore other options.

By Ellise Shafer

By Elsa Keslassy

By Andreas Wiseman

By Elsa Keslassy

The festival was initially looking at postponing until the end of June

Cannes Film Festival bosses are committed to staging an event to mark 2020 once the coronavirus restrictions have been relaxed, but they insist any gathering will not look like the typical South of France celebration.

«What are next year's Oscars going to look like?» It's a question the industry, awards forecasters and armchair pundits alike have been wondering as release schedules are scuttled and film festivals are canned amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

«What are next year's Oscars going to look like?» It's a question the industry, awards forecasters and armchair pundits alike have been wondering as release schedules are scuttled and film festivals are canned amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.